I have been majorly delinquent on this blog. So, without further ado, some updates.

First, this just happened.

me:  also, I am slowly going mad over my HHR's USB

it seems to randomly pick songs that it won't play

and once it's picked one, it never works again

but more tracks stop working

Tai:  lol

i hstr vomputytrd domr fsyd

...

me:  WTF???

Tai:  lol

had was mis alighedf

aligned

i meant to say i hate when computes screw up

me:  I think that's probably blog worthy

Tai:  lol  yes

This is fairly normal. 

I've been extremely busy at the house, there has been much work to do.

First, there were french drains to put in around my barn

Looks harmless enough, right? Little did we know...

This is how far the 3 yards of gravel I estimated got us. Somehow, I dropped a factor of 5. So maybe I should have actually written the calculation down.

 11 more yards later, I'm dumping the last of the gravel next to the barn and it's all set. Lots of weight moved, got my shovel on! 

Then, there was the cleaning out of the radiator on my Buick (which I did myself because the shop refused to touch it)

For the record, it was VERY plugged. And each one of the tubes gave me a bunch of goop like this:

 Yech. Good news is the car doesn't overheat anymore, and the radiator is *mostly* leak free ... it will do for now.

 Then, I decided to build a new garage, so much site clearing work had to be done:

The John Deere wants to play!

 Somewhere, along the way, this happened

I was less than amused. I only had one spare lens, that was 41 years old!

At the end of the day, I have a MASSIVE pile of sectioned wood which still needs to be split and stacked under my protective overhang before it gets too cold and starts to snow. 

Also, having a dumptruck is, quite possibly, the most useful thing ever.