Monkey's, Storms and blow outs...

As I wrote earlier, I got my truck back. Then on Saturday, we had a tire go out because the tread was separating: Wonderful. I ended up spending almost to the penny exactly what we saved on the registration. I had snapped a picture in Elgin on the way to the DMV that made me laugh and I wanted to write about it. Now looking back, I think it was the supreme being telling me, SAVE YOUR MONEY. You’ll need it.”


The picture below, as you can see, is a Jesus picture next to a spoke rim. When I first saw it, I thought, “Now that’s an eclectic shop there. You can get everything from rims to Jesus pictures.” Now it makes more sense, “You’re going to have a blow out and in the end, you will need the money you’re about to save.” Thanks. Didn’t make it any better for my wife having to spend the money she “BANKED”, like on ‘The Weakest Link’, but it was an omen I guess.

Fast forward to Sunday, now I am achy because I tried to change the tire myself and I couldn’t get the jack to work properly and no way was I going to risk causing more damage to my truck so soon after I got it so we called a tow service to change it out for us. That’s another story. It caused me to be late to pick up my desk I wanted. No big problem there I just don’t like looking lie a flake. We had to change the time from the morning for reasons I want get into and then this made it look like I was a loser and flaked when I really missed the time because of real incidents. Anyway, passed that now.

We had Keira’s early birthday party and she had a lot of fun. There were a lot of people there. We went to Monkey Joe’s, which, for those that don’t know is a huge air jumper place where kids go and behave like monkey’s and it’s okay. I only have to pay $10 and make sure she isn’t an evil bastion from hell and she can romp and frolic about as much as she likes. We had some folks from the NOC bring their kids as we haven’t really got her socialized with anyone in Schaumburg yet, and they were extremely cool. She liked having them there but I think she was overwhelmed with the ability to lose her mind and see so many kids in one place she didn’t get time to really bond with them. She will have opportunities in the future as we live closer to two of the families and we will have picnics and such for her to get more fun in with them.

While at the party, we had a huge storm roll through. Knocked the power out twice. All the air jumps were deflating, kids were screaming like they were on the Simpson’s and riding on flaming amusement park rides. It was a bit funny but it was also a little concerning as the rides deflated and kids were on top of them. Afterward we found out the worst of the storm was directly over us, we received the largest amount of hail and lightening in the area. Nice.

Back to work now, lots going on and I am tired.

ILY XO YM