This video was taken back in late November by tita Ciello when she visited us here in MN. Someone wasn't in the mood for singing - He purposely mispronounced the words, spoke the lyrics, etc...

Labels: Car, Family, fatherhood, Friends, Video, Winter

The Toyota caught a pretty good sized rock across the windshield yesterday - It's in the shop getting fixed today.

It's pretty unnerving when a big truck kicks up a birds egg-sized rock, and you watch it take a long and lazy arc directly toward your face in slow motion.

I'm not ashamed to admit that my hands went up and I ducked a little. Whether or not I screamed like a woman is none of your business.

Labels: Car, Life

I tried to write something tonight but it looked like something you'd find dried to the bars on a monkey cage. Work came down on me with full force today and I realized that if I intend to take my job seriously this summer it is not going to be a whole lot of fun. Realizations like that tend to take a lot out of you.

With that in mind I'm going to post anyway and use a photo as a crutch for this anemic content offering. Here's a picture I recently took of the wife and child in the car:

Labels: Car, Family

Mom came out of surgery OK yesterday. She now has a tube that goes directly into her windpipe through the front of her throat. What I didn't understand before was due to ignorance and lack of observation. The woman's mouth was open for 10 straight days with a friggin tube going down into her windpipe - Some pretty uncomfortable stuff. When I saw her after the surgery I could see inside her mouth. The whole thing looked like one big wound. One of her teeth broke in the ordeal so there was talk of bringing in an oral surgeon to make sure that she doesn't have any infected teeth. Anyway she is resting today, still heavily sedated.

On top of all that I replaced the water pump on my truck yesterday. GM made it look deceptively easy - Just remove the cowl and the fan and you're home free -- Except that they made the hoses a real bitch by sticking them real close together. Plus the manifolds are obscured by the mounting brackets for the alternator and the air conditioner. I had to clean them off using a mirror. The whole job was so messy that I couldn't really tell if my work was leaky or if I was simply dripping some of the antifreeze that got everywhere while I was doing the job. This is pretty much why I never go into details when the wife asks me how my day went.

Speaking of the wife, she has a huge project launching at work and will be working late tonight, which means that the child and I will be bachelors.

Labels: Car, Life, Mom