Rants, musings, and other general purpose blog entries reflecting the thoughts du jour.
Once again, the spring ritual of rendering unto Caesar four times (two corporate tax returns and two individual ones) and making the Obamacare people happy is finally completed. I do so love the question about the contents that I get when I drop these large envelopes into the post. Hazardous materials are prohibited but not ones that are stultifyingly boring to produce and must be utterly and dreadfully dull to have to read and process…
The adventures of Darth Tahoe…Day 2! We’ve found a few more interesting fiddly bits and features on Darth Tahoe during this morning’s epic fight with I-440: Nick and Katie discovered at least the middle row of seats also sport tushy warmers which rather amused them! The Traverse only has them up front.Darth Tahoe definitely stands taller and is much less aerodynamic than the Traverse which was brutally exposed on the ramp from the US-64 bypass…
So I’m sitting in Darth Tahoe after dropping off my Traverse at garage to be mended and most of my familiarity with the Chevrolet controls transfers quite easily from the Traverse to the big beast Tahoe for the pre-engine start checklist… Paired phone via Bluetooth. Check.Figure out controls for playlist. Check.Mirrors configured. Check.Climate control and AC pack on. Check.Tushy warmer armed. Check. Checklist complete and all controls are well sorted…except one! It is almost embarrassing…
There is a very subtle irony to listening to the track “I’m Free” from the “Footloose” soundtrack as the overheating engine of my Traverse is about to make me neither! :( I can’t really whinge too much as she has not been anywhere near the hangar queen her predecessor was but that doesn’t mean I’m looking forward to the out-of-warranty repair bill either! But a big shout out to Raleigh Towing and Recovery to get…
Whilst waiting to be seated at a packed restaurant, a couple who got seated at the bar ahead of us came back out soon after with the statement “It wasn’t fun…we waited four minutes!” If your level of patience is that low…might I respectfully suggest you stay in and cook your own dinner? The upside is that the hostesses won’t be able to resist trying to figure out which parties coming in the door has…
Zugspitze Mountain (2,966m) - Garmisch-Partenkirchen Bayern Germany
Today would have been my father’s 73rd birthday and was easy to remember given the more famous man he shared it with! He passed away three weeks short of making 71 and his birthdays since have been wonderful days to remember the good times we had together and share one with the audience. If you ever visited with him, you’d learn quickly that he was a tour guide that could pack the maximum number of…
