I got up this morning and worked for an hour or two before we all loaded into the car and drove over to Geneseo to get breakfast at the Omega Grill and to drop off the Mazda PR5 at M&R Automotive to get the winter tired removed and the summer tires put on.
We dropped off the car and then went over to the Omega Grill for a long breakfast. I was on the BlackBerry all morning working from that. I was able to do almost all of my work through email so it worked out really well.
As we were leaving breakfast we ran into Karin
After breakfast we went across the street to Tim Horton’s where we bought $40 of coffee beans to take back to Peekskill with us. We do not have any convenient access to Tim Horton’s at all so this is our only way to really get the coffee. The nearest Tim Horton’s to us is in Elmira, New York which is just over four hours away.
Then it was over to Walmart for some quick shopping for baby supplies. Were only there for fifteen minutes at most. I made a quick pass through the store to see if Mary was working but she was nowhere to be found. As always seems to happen whenever we are in Walmart in Geneseo, we ran into the Ralstons on the way through the checkout. They are planning on coming over to visit this evening.
We swung through the auto shop to see if the car was done having its tires changed yet but it had not. By this time, between eating a light breakfast, staying way too long drinking coffee, running errands and needing to wait for the car we decided to just swing back into the Omega and get lunch there as well.
After lunch the car was still not ready so we went back to dad’s house and I worked for the afternoon from there. They called about the car. It turns out that we had let our NYS inspection expire on the car without realizing it. So they were going to take care of that when the found that the real brakes were in bad shape.
So the car has to stay in the shop until tomorrow morning and we have to have $800 of work done on it rather than just getting the tires changed. Older cars are never cheap. We only have about 115K miles on the PR5 at this point. It is a 2002 so it is getting old but isn’t that old. It still drives quite well.
After work was over, more or less, we ordered pizza from Davis Farm Market in Pavilion. It just wouldn’t be a trip home without pizza from there. I took the convertible down to pick up the pizza. This is the first trip in it this season.
As I was pulling out of Davis’, the Ralsons pulled up behind me at the light on Route 63. What timing. I run into them more than anyone else that I know.
The Ralstons hung out until almost eleven. They are getting ready to move to the Republic of the Congo in the very near future. Maybe in as little as six weeks!
After the Ralsonts headed back home Dad, Dominica and Liesl all went to bed. I hit the road to drive over to Geneseo to meet Tony at Tim Horton’s for coffee at eleven.
Tony and I ended up talking about software development until three thirty in the morning when he headed for home to do his homework and I went back to dad’s house. Once I got back I worked online for almost another hour before turning in for the night.