The Manic Mechanic

Another weekend come and gone. Still battling exhaustion somewhat, though sleeping in does help in that respect, it makes for shorter days amid all that needs doing before our vacations. The weather has been the worst as far as demotivator and roadblock. Saturday started off kinda nice, but rain came in and threw the outdoor work in the bin. I used the time to run errands and spend too much money on garage cabinets and other stuff. By mid-afternoon it had cleared up quite nicely, and we decided to hit up Baltimore Pride as we had planned. On the way the radio was alive with tornado warnings for the immediate area. I said that Baby Jeebus would not rain on his gheys' parade, so we pressed on. We were greeted with perfect weather for Pride. Jeff work his rainbow-colored silk shirt which garnered more comments than probably any costume there. My ankle was really hurting me bad, but I managed to make it through the entire block party, since the singer Amber was the final act, and Jeff absolutely adores her. Seeing him have all sorts of fun, running into our usual friends on the block and molesting some of them, and enjoying the energy while ogling the cuties made both our day.

Today was more running errands, we stopped at Costco and did more Buy 'n Large (two carts worth this time), you could tell who's cart belonged to us by the contents. Jeff's was almost all food, mine was batteries, a garage vacuum and other goodies. We snagged a take 'n' bake pizza made with fresh tomatoes, mozzarella and basil and made that our big meal for the day when we got home. Serious yummage. I headed back out to (another) Lowe's once again to finish up my purchases of Gladiator garage cabinets since today was the last day of the 20% off sale. Coming home after that I took the wheels off of the trailer (in the Bible Belt that would make it a 'real house'!) and loaded them in the truck along with the new tires so I can mount and balance them tomorrow evening at the Annex of Mayhem. I need to refill one of the propane tanks and give the brakes and bearings a check, then the trailer should be good to go for the rest of the summer.

This is going to be a very busy but short week as we round up stuff for the trip to Hillside on Thursday night. The trailer finds it's summer home in Jeff's parents' driveway, allowing us a chance to have more room here at the house in the driveways as well as saving lots on gas by chopping a bit over 250 miles off of each round trip we make up north. Since we seem to head that way for all our trips save for Deep Creek Lake in MD, it's a great solution.

It's way past time for me to hit the sack, I'm gonna be busy. I hope this damn exhaustion crap takes it easy on me, at least until I get to relax in a few more days.

I finally sorted out some of the issues I had run into with this PC. Luckily, with the new LaCie monster drive and some patience, I saved most of what I lost in the drive crash. I had just about all the unsaved pictures still on the memory cards and microdrives in the cameras, and most of the other files were in other odd places like thumbdrives. In the next few days, I will make hard copies to DVDs of the 'precious' stuff. A new HD is in order for this PC to replace the hosed one. While it will mount, it won't format, so I am sure that my data is residing as fine dust inside the drive by now.

Random pic of leftover Pride in my driveway:


I am waiting for someone to send me pics of the float in action, since I could not take pictures of it during the parade because, well, I had to drive. For the time being, I am all 'prided' out.