August 5, 2003: Bubblegum Blizzard

I was supposed to be going to DC today but I needed to wait for some software to be shipped and it didn’t arrive until today so I get to hold off until tomorrow on my travels. I am happy because I have gotten so little time to be at the new house that I appreciate every opportunity. I did catch two more mice today. That is the fourth and fifth mice so far. This is beginning to be an epidemic.

Min started at Youngs and Linfoot today. She only worked for a couple of hours though. Mostly I got to relax today but Min and I had to run some errands. So in the afternoon we ran to the Verizon store and my parents’ house and my Aunt and Uncle’s house and then up to Home Depot to exchange some stuff for the house. We got back from Home Depot and Andy installed a bunch of bathroom hardware for us. The house is slowly taking shape. Tomorrow we hope to have blinds and stuff on most of the windows. It sucks not being able to control the sunlight right now. We did manage to locate most of the critical kitchen supplied today. We have been dying for some silverware.

August 4, 2003

It’s another Monday. Min was supposed to start working at Youngs and Linfoot in Geneseo today but they weren’t ready for her so we are pushing that off until tomorrow. Andy is liking his new job out in Buffalo at BOC Edwards. But the commute is a killer.

Today was mostly more work around the house and trying to account for all of the DVDs that got shipped over to here. I am in the process of verifying the existence of all of the movies and adding Dominica’s movies into the collection. We have decided that it is time for us to combine the collection and sell off all of the doubles. Luckily there really aren’t all that many doubles. Just about eight or so. The total collection now is up around 670 movies.

While Min and I were out of town, Andy said that he heard more mice in the walls around the stairs going to the cellar. So yesterday, he and Min went to Walmart and picked up a Mouse Cube humane trap. We set it out on the stairs and we caught two more mice last night.

August 2, 2003

Today is all day driving day. After the blow out last night, Min and I tried very hard all day to get a wheel for the car (the tire blew AND the rim cracked) but we weren’t able to find anything. So we finally gave up and decided to just drive back to New York on the donut. Luckily, Ralph’s Country Store switched the tires around for us so that the donut is on the back so that we can drive a lot more easily. So we started the very long trek from North Carolina to New York. It ended up taking 15 hours of driving. Ugh.

August 1, 2003

Min and I are in Savannah for our final day. We got up fairly early and drove out to Tybee Island to spend the last day with her family there. We hung out for most of the day at the house and then the whole crew drove out to Savannah to go to a family restaurant for dinner. After dinner, Min and I hit the road for DC. I am supposed to do some work there tomorrow.

Min and I drove through the night and made it to North Carolina. At 3:30 am, on US i95, the front right tire exploded on Min’s car and we were stranded on the side of the highway. We called Mazda roadside assisstance and they sent out JR from Ralph’s Country Store. He towed us back to Ralph’s and hooked us up with a hotel. They really took care of us and went out of their way to make sure that we were okay. We will have to look for a tire in the morning because they didn’t have any of the right size for Min’s wheels.