Seems wierd

That in only about 23 days, both A and C will be off to school and the house will be very quiet. I am not looking forward to it, both have grown nicely to young adults and are generally fun to be around.

I knnow you guys

Think I am crazy, but... you are probably right. Tonight after work, I fixed C's VW shifter. It seems there was a lot of excess play in the gear shift for the manual transmission, so it was not going into gear properly.

I checked online for what the various communities suggested (http://www.vwvortex.com), checked out the problems and ordered the parts. The parts came today, so tonight I installed them. It took about an hour and a half, and the car shifts much tighter. I even installed a short shift linkage to improve the shift.

Next up on the repairs, C's VW and a window regulator (the thing that makes the window go up and down). Only after the parts arrive. No wonder I am getting a good rating on eBay.

Something good happened

last week. A wanted to have a couple of friends, who were in town to see a concert, over for the night and gave K very short notice. They are from Asheville, so would have had a 3 hour drive home at 11PM. As K is in the middle of a sewing project, the house was not exactly up to snuff.

So K stopped what she was doing, and made the house presentable. The friends came over and everything was fine.

The next day, after her friends had left, A wrote a note to K saying that she appreciated the work that K did to get the house clean and how nice the place looked when they got there. My baby is growing up! Sniff, sniff.

It has been too long

And I have been too busy.

Some highlights:

Traveling much due to work. I have been to Northwest Ohio, Cincinnati, and Columbus (tried to stop in at R and J's but they were not home) on a quick business trip.

I have been to Savannah GA for a trade show. I rode the Juliette Gordon Low water taxi (for you GS's) from my hotel to the down town business area across the Savannah River. It was also fun to watch the multiple container ships traversing the river Then off to the mountains of NC, all on business.

I have been to Atlanta, GA, again on business.

I have been working on the cars here to keep them running properly, doing oil changes, routine maintenance, and fixing a couple of minor issues. I now do my own oil changes because the people that we had previously taken the cars to did not put the oil plug back in tightly, leaving an oil leak and a potential for catastrophic damage to A's car and did not fill up the oil as needed in the Van. I am also being environmentally responsible by recycling the oil properly and disposing of the oil filter at a hazardous material disposal site maintained by the county.

Yesterday, I went to see B and K in VA. B was asking for help on some electrical issues regarding his fish tank and refrigerator. It seems both the fish tanks and his refrigerator are all on the same 15A service breaker. Every once in a while, the breaker would trip causing issues for the food and for the fish.

So, B and I ran a new dedicated circuit for the refrigerator; ran a new, dedicated circuit with 4-GFCI protected outlets for the downstairs tank; and changed out a standard duplex receptacle making 4 GFCI protected outlets for the upstairs tank.

The hardest part about doing the electrical work was moving around in the crawl space. In a old house, there is not much room under it for two big guys.

BTW, B and K are doing great.

Hope all of you have been safe and healthy.