It is 3:02 a.m., Thursday morning here at The Vacationland Inn. I just woke up and realized that I had left the phone in the car and that it would soon be out of charge, so I went out and got it and plugged it in, but I am now wide awake, of course. Maybe I can blog for a while and it will allow me to sleep in when I get back to sleep.
Yesterday was a quite and peaceful day compared to the two before, so full of excitement with the new car purchase and the getting rid of "The Beast"
The Beast; 2001 Ford expedition 4WD. Leaking Transmission fluid like a sieve and has lost it's tough metal gas tank guard underneath. 12 miles to the gallon of fuel. $60 to fill. Radio and cassette player!
The New 2016 Subaru Forester AWD. 26 MPG, Reversing Camera, Mag Wheels and Roof Rack, disc brakes all around, Fancy stereo with CD player and USB and Mini Stereo plug AUX Input,
brand new with a superb maintenance plan within the $199 per month leasing package.
The new car looks similar but is much lower to the ground and way easier to get into. Sandy had great difficulty getting into the old Beast and had to use a stool to get up into it, with much trouble anyway. The new car is easy for anyone to get into and the seats adjust every which way as well as the steering wheel adjusts up and down and telescopes in and out. All the electrics are fancy on the new car and the wipers and wiper water jets front and back are superb.
Dad's been singing sad country songs about his old truck all day, but it is such a huge improvement, it's remarkable. They'll save half the monthly lease in reduced maintenance and reduced fuel costs.
The room I am in right now, writing this blog. Has a nice table to set the computer up on, a fridge and microwave, and a TV which sits on a bureau that could hold unpacked clothes if you wished to do that. I would forget the clothes and leave them here so I don't do that. The TV gets a lot of channels including the NESN Red Sox games.
I watched the end of the Red Sox vs. Yankees game with Steven Wright, the knuckleballer pitching for us, for 30 minutes or so before I went to sleep. Wright looked good. We were ahead by a run when I nodded off.
Dad and I played golf again yesterday, he shot 85 and I shot 91. He has beaten me all three games we have had so far. He doesn't hit the ball too far, (just about the same length drive as me, however, about 160 yards, but he hits so straight and he has been putting very well. He chipped in from 40 yards away on the tenth hole yesterday!
We had a beer and a Buddhist Hot Dog ("Make me one with everything.") after golf in the clubhouse, served by Jenny, who has been very nice and friendly and welcoming to me.
Later, Sandy's son John came over and had a chat and then he brought steaks and cooked the steaks on the grill, Dad and I had gone out to deliver the Title Papers to the Beast to Quirks Subaru Dealership, and I got a couple of salads to go with the steaks for dinner at the big supermarket Hannafords. Also some caffeine-free diet cokes.
Had a chat with John and upgraded the laptop to Windows 10 before John went outside to man the grill for the steaks. Windows 10 took about an hour or so to upgrade into. Everything went pretty smoothly. I am liking the changes so far, but it will take some getting used to. I couldn't get the speech recognition program, Cortana, working yet. Lots of time to set that up after I get back home.
After we used it for a while we tried to upgrade to Windows 10 on Dad's desktop, but there is a queue for set-up and when we tried it said they weren't ready for him, they will email or send a message when it is his turn. Microsoft reckons they will set-up 1 Billion computers with Windows 10 in this period of set-up time.
After dinner we set up a DVD and watched a movie called "Walking Tall", with "The Rock", Duane Johnson, and Johnny Knoxville. Not bad, but I got tired and had to head back to the Hotel Room at just before 9 p.m. Tried to watch some baseball, but nodded off. Now it is 3:50 a.m., Thursday morning. I will attempt to get a short nap in a few minutes.
Golf again today, with Spencer Greaterex, Dad's old pal and ex-work colleague, joining us for the golf. He is supposed to be at the club at 10 a.m. Hopefully, dad will let him win again. Spencer doesn't win very often and gets a kick out of beating Dad when he gets a chance.
Dad is a cruel man, he hits so straight and is good on the greens so he shoots a good score all the time. Tough to beat.
That's just about all the news that's fit to print and ain't too hard to spell for the Wednesday, August 5th.
Lance at exactly 4:00 a.m., Thursday, August 6th.
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