Ramblings

It was another action packed weekend! Well, not really, but it wasn’t slow either. I wrote about Friday evening, that was a lot of fun. Saturday wasn’t bad either. Jimbo went to see his grandparents and stopped by the apartment on his way back and picked me up. After that I just basically hung around the Quad, helping people move in where I could, and waited. I was waiting for my father …

He was bringing John in from Houstion, but he wasn’t due in Longview until around nine. I “wasted” some time playing Deus Ex, really great game BTW, and right in the middle of my “training”, John and my dad walked in. They were about an hour early. Cool! So, since he was there for two reasons, drop off John, and get my van to the transmission shop, we took off and towed the van over to the shop. That went much better than I thought it would.

Unfortunantly, the shop doesn’t have a place to leave a vehicle after hours, nor do they have a key drop. So, I made arrangements to be there when they opened at eight. We decided to go grab a late dinner at IHOP before he headed south for the night. We sat around and chatted for a while, then gathered our things and headed back to campus. He dropped me off and let for Houston shortly thereafter.

When I got back to the Quad, they were watching a movie … I guess they couldn’t find the one they really wanted to watch. The one they ended up with turned out to be really bad … just plain stupid bad. I endured the rest of the movie … there were a lot of people in our lounge watching (somewhat unusual). After the movie I found a ride back to the apartment.

Sunday I made arrangements to get back to the Quad and I just hung around, and we did dinner … not much.

This morning I showed up at the transmission shop, which apparently decided to open at seven, not eight. Whatever, he got the van moved, after I gave him the keys. We made tentitive arrangements for communication … still not real sure when he will call. He said around noon, but I have prior engagements at about that time and will be away from my phone for several hours. We’ll see.