Well, I said I would drive my Toyota Camry until it died. It finally died. I got a new car, a “galaxy” (gun metal gray) Mazda MX5 Miata Touring edition. I’ve included some links to some sites with very similar cars. I’ll post photos soon.
http://www.mazdausa.com/MusaWeb/displayPage.action?pageParameter=modelsMain&vehicleCode=MX5
http://www.autoblog.com/2006/05/22/2006-mazda-mx-5-grand-touring-in-the-autoblog-garage-day-1-2/
On the fourteenth, the driver’s side window on my Camry was acting funny. I didn’t really think about it. Then, I took a trip to the IBM conference. When I got home, the window was down. At first, I thought I left the window down, until it wouldn’t go up. Then, I thought someon broke in. Then, I got it home and opened the door panel. The window was broken, the lifter was broken, and the motor box for the door was completly busted. Yikes. The garage estimated over a grand to fix it in parts and labor.
So, a new car it is. Come and visit us in and I’ll let you drive it…
Well, yesterday my father in law convinced me to help him build fence. Normally, not any concerns. It was us, Bryan, and Rick. I met up with everyone at 7:30 to beat the heat.
It started out slow. On the way over, the wheel on one of the trailers hauling equipment lost a tire. It took quite a while to get the wheel back on. By the time we got started, it was already 8:45.
After a little while, we got going. The first section went slow, but well. By the time we finished it was 10:30. At this point, finishing at 11:00 was only a dream. And, it was already very high 90 degrees.
We started the second, longer, section. It had two “gulleys”. When we tried to pull wire over the second one, we realized we had to take out some trees. The first set of trees were to be cut down. The second, bulldozed in. This was a good time for a break and we took the opportunity to get lunch. Even in the shade, it was hot.
After lunch, Rick and I used the dozer and Bryan and Keith used the chainsaws. Rick was pretty skillfull with the dozer. He not only cleared the trees but cleaned up the groundwork. I hadn’t moved the fenceposts far enough and we bent two. Bryan fell one of the trees on the first pulled wire. We were in heat overload, it was well into 100 degrees.
We kept working. The four wheeler of Bryans transmission locked up (no tranmission fluid). At this point, we were stuck, it was a 100 degrees and we were in a section with no air flow. We called it a day with the second section in need of repair. What an experience.
Today I attended Matthew Rule’s birthday party in Tulsa. I got to see quite a few people I haven’t seen in a while. Ryan Davis, Eric Davis, Chris Evans, Ben, Jake Evans and Rodney Taylor were there with their families. My parents and Angela were also there. What a turn out. Of course, we didn’t go to church. Overall, it was good to see everyone.
After it was over, my family went with Matt and family to Texas Roadhouse (steakhouse).