Quick uptdate

As you know, Mel and I went to Lake Bemidji State Park and did some camping with our friends. The new Tahoe did awesome on the trip, except for the A/C going out, again. Oh well.

It was pretty much back to work as usual, until Thursday. Glad this did NOT happen to me. One of my buddy's at work was cutting on the table saw and cut off the tips of two of his fingers on his left hand. His middle finger and ring finger, are now about 1/2 of an inch shorter. I talked to him on Friday and he said that he was at the hospital for 6 hours. He seemed to be in good spirits, but was mad at himself for doing something like this. He said that it wasn't an issue of using the saw wrong, it was just a freak accident.

As Mel said she went to the Wizard of OZ play in Eagan, on Wednesday and again on Friday. I ended up going with her on Friday, and to my surprise the play was excellent! There were a lot of scene changes that kind of made it long, but the sets were very well built. They also had a lot of people flying through the air, which I though was cool. Flying monkeys, the wicked witch, Dorothy in the tornado....

Well, that's about all I know for now.

Until next time...

New Ride!

Here is the real reason that I needed to fit the Jeep in the garage. I picked it up last night and have been cleaning it since. I haven't washed the outside since it's going to rain, but the inside needed some serious attention.

It's a 1997 Chevy Tahoe LT. Leather, power seats, power windows, power locks, AM/FM/Cassette/CD, running boards, 40/60 split rear bench seat, tailgate instead of doors, etc....

The Jeep is no longer my daily driver. I know what your thinking. How's the mileage on that thing? Well, believe it or not, it's better than the Jeep. It gets about 17mpg and the Jeep was getting 12 to 15mpg. We'll also be able to keep some miles off of Mel's Jeep. We were piling them on pretty good over the winter with my Jeep not having any heat. So this will be our main auto for road trips, and just running around on the weekends. We're heading to Al's cabin with it this weekend and then to Bemidji with it next weekend. I might even see how it does towing my Jeep, for our next off roading adventure.

Garages! Part Deux

Yes, that's correct. My Jeep is parked in my garage. No hell did not freeze over, and the Vikings won't win the super bowl this year, but my garage is.....I don't want to say "clean".....how about uncluttered enough, that I can fit the Jeep in there.

For the last month we've had the garage full of crap from a garage sale that we had in the beginning of June. We finally got sick of looking at it all so we loaded up the Liberty and dumped it off at the Goodwill. After lunch I did a bit of reorganizing, and WHAMMY!

There is still a lot of crap that I need to find a home for. I know that James wants the light box, and I've still got the tables in there. They'll be going back to my parents house. There's a few other random things, golf clubs, random pile of wood flooring, folding chairs. Speaking of golf clubs. If anyone wants them, let me know. There's one crappy driver, a decent 3 wood, and some decent irons. There to short for me, so they gotta go.

I'd eventually like to install one of those drop down ladders in the celling, so that I can store some stuff up there. That will help a lot.

Look for the real reason the Jeep is in the garage, in the next update. Coming soon!