There's No Place Like Home

It has come to my attention that I have not blogged since Jan 31st. 16 days ago.

It’s not that nothing has been happening, just that I haven’t been writing about it.

Just lazy I guess.

Well, I had a weird dream a couple of nights ago. I dreamed that I was still working at American Mold (which I left six years ago and has since closed it’s doors) and still driving my 86 Honda CRX Si.

I loved that car.

Anyway, in my dream I was goofing around in my CRX in the parking lot at American Mold and I managed to slide the front wheel into the curb.

The wierd part was that the rim then busted in half, right down the middle. So I had to get a new one. I grabbed the yellow pages and started calling junk yards.

They all wanted $800 for one rim! Outrageous!

Then the dream ended. Weird.

This might be a long entry…

On Friday it snowed. The first real snow of the season. I think we got between 4-6 inches. It started snowing around Noon and when I finally left work at 4:00 it was a mess.

It took me an hour and 40 minutes to get home. Normally a 20 minute drive. What a pain.

So I shoveled the snow Friday night (after Liz has already shoveled the snow once. But it was still snowing.

I got up on Saturday and shoveled again. It wasn’t bad, the wind had actually blown most of the snow off the driveway (for a change.) Then I went go-kart racing!

What a hoot that is. There were 20 guys there and we ran two qualifiers first. I had the 5th fasted lap time (out of 10) and was getting pretty consistantly better each lap – for a change.

So for some reason they give me the poll position on the final race! Woot!

When the race started I managed to stay in first or second place for the first 8 laps! I was feeling pretty good when I went into a corner two abreast. Then someone behind tagged me and sent me into the wall. Where I got stuck. And everybody passed me.

Sigh.

No way was I going to catch anyone. So I finished last. Poop.

But my fasted lap of the day was the second lap after the crash! I was pissed and drove my ass off!

Man that’s hard work. I need more upper body strength.

Charles posted his photos here: Charle’s Photos

Unfortunately, I forgot my camera. 🙁

So much for my resolution.
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Well, $1018.00 later and I have my car back. And that was after the coupon for $145.00 off and the four $50.00 gift certificates.

Sheesh.

At least it’s running good now. I do like that car.

And the washed it! It’s pretty when it’s clean. But that won’t last…

So as I was walking the three blocks to pick up my car from the local garage, after walking two blocks to pickup my kid at her school, I realized how much I really love the area that I live in.

Everything is here and it’s all in walking distance.

Local car shop – three blocks.
Roz’s school – two blocks.
Grocery store – five blocks.
Another grocery store – seven blocks.
Drug store – seven blocks.
Really good hardware store – two, one three blocks away and one six blocks away.
Coffee shop – damn there are a lot of those.
Liquor store – six blocks.
Really good resturant – see coffee shop.
My parents house – eight blocks.
Best Co-op in Minneapolis – 12 blocks.
Guthrie Theatre (but it’s moving) – 15 blocks.

I really love this part of Minneapolis. If I wasn’t so lazy I’d walk everywhere.

I really ought to start walking more. Come the summer, I will. Maybe I’ll even start grocery shopping with the little red wagon. I’ve been wondering what to do with it, and that’s the answer!