Waiting and Working

Most of my week has been occupied with waiting for my laptop and working.

The laptop I told you I bought in the last post hasn't arrived (thus the 'waiting'). In fact it left San Pablo, CA at 2:30am on Wednesday, but that was the last time it was scanned. I took this to mean any one of three things:

1. The truck crashed after leaving San Pablo
2. All of UPS's package scanners are busted
3. UPS wants to keep me in suspense

So in the end it really just translates into waiting. I know some of my readers are loyal UPS fans (they have good reason to be!), but I have had better success (shorter wait, better package updates) with FedEx.

Work has been hard as normal, and Adam came home with me Wednesday and Thursday. On Wednesday Adam had decided that he wanted to buy the silver civic he blogged about. With this news, I promptly asked him about buying his fog lights from him. After some bargaining, he decided he would. When we got back to his house (his car wasn't at my house since he rode with me from work) we got the fog lights off in short time. It was then I remembered he had my steering wheel cover, and I had his. We swapped those and started cleaning the car out of some of Adam's stuff. While doing this I thought about how when you trade a car in often times people will strip it on most every useful item. I mentioned this to Adam and we started thinking about what items he had that I could use. In the end I had a number of little items. Here is a list of the items:

• cup holder (my car didn't come with one, believe it or not!)
  
• bolt and wing screw for spare (mine are cross threaded and don't work well)
• Spare tire cover (I didn't have one, and Adam took the spare)
  
• the plastic hook for the center console lid (mine was broken)
• rear speakers (I didn't have any in my lift gate)
• some extra bulbs for various fixtures in the car
• his magnetic antenna (the white one that was on top of Adam's Jeep)

All in all we took a few hundred dollars worth of parts from Adam's Jeep, but the thing is they were all small items you wouldn't even realized were gone (with the exception of the fog lights and antenna). When we were through, it didn't look much like Adam's Jeep any more.

So that was Wednesday. Thursday we took on the task of installing the fog lights onto my car. This proved to be a 3-4 hour project. We ended up taking the bumper off to get access to the nuts holding the old brackets. after taking off the bumper it was a simple matter of putting it back on... As you may have guessed, we struggled with it for a little while but prevailed in the end.

Wednesday and Thursday aside, now we come to Friday. I got up as late as possible to get my lunch together, get gas, and get to Nashua for 9:00am. On my way out the door my Father told me that Papa had gone to the hospital at 2:ooam that morning because he was having chest pain and difficulty breathing. It turns out that he had mild heart attack. At this point he is stable and doing well.


Hooray, I finished my exposition!