I have had a super-Saturday.
The morning started (as usual) with a nice relaxing cup of coffee on my front porch. I wanted to get as much porch-time in as possible, as the weather-people had predicted a fairly nasty heatwave coming through my area of Pennsylvania this weekend - and they were spot-on in their predictions.
The Pajama Parents are visiting this weekend as well - which made for nice relaxing porch-time conversation. And coffee.
As the air got warmer and warmer, I found that my father and I were the only two left on the porch - and we were talking politics (duh). It occurred to us that we should head inside to get out of the heat, as well as listen to Hillary Clinton concede the Democratic primary to Barack Obama.
After waiting what seemed like an eternity for Senator Clinton to show up, she finally made her speech at approximately 1:45 p.m. The pundits all seemed to agree that she has done what she needed to unite the Democratic party. I'm not as optimistic as others. I think that it's going to take a bit of time before the Clinton supporters' wounds have healed - and they come around to support the Democratic nominee.
All of that aside - after watching Hillary Clinton (finally) give her concession speech, the Pajama Father and I headed up to my workshop (read: garage) to do some 'man stuff' (hence the title of this post).
First, we put his car up on ramps. We transplanted the hitch on the rear bumper of his car to the rear bumper on my car. It sounded like a simple-enough task at the time - but it took longer, and more sweat, to accomplish than we had anticipated. Fortunately, we both have PT Cruisers, so the parts were nearly identical.
After the hitch transplant was completed, we turned my car around on the ramps and pulled the plug on the oil pan. A quick trip to Wal-Mart for Prestone and a Fram filter, and we had changed the oil and filter on my car. Again, a simple automotive maintenance task, but I must admit that there is something so very appealing about 1) fixing stuff, particularly in a DIY fashion, and 2) getting all grimy and dirty. I derived a great sense of satisfaction after getting those projects out of the way.
Incidentally, the whole hitch project is in anticipation of my trip to the Jersey Shore next week (sweeeeet). The Pajama Wife and I are headed to Ocean City, New Jersey from June 14th through the 21st. The hitch is for a rack to carry our bikes (shout-out to Norm for lending us the rack). Computer update::: no word from the computer-tech-dudes yet. I'm hoping to get my PC back before we leave for our vacation. If not, it will be yet another week of sparse posting. You'll know when I get it back because this one-post-every-other-day crap will come to a screeching halt and you'll see my normal eight to twelve posts-per-day pattern resume.
Anyway....
I am now showered and refreshed. I hope that you have stayed cool this weekend. The local weather forecast said this morning that Monday is supposed to reach 99 degrees. I can't say that I'm looking forward to that. Oh, did I forget to mention that I do NOT have air-conditioning in my house? Yeah. No.
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