May 14, 2007

  • What a day.

    This afternoon I made a quick dash to SuperTarget to purchase a game for Dmitry (we agreed he'd hang his father's shirts when taken out of the dryer - maybe 12 to 14 of them? - if I'd go to the store).  Hopped in my van, drove, parked, was in the store maybe 5-7 minutes, came back out, and the dumb car wouldn't start.  

    Remember the Good Old Days when batteries would give you some warning they're about to go four feet in the air?  Now it's hale and hearty one minute, dead as a doornail the next.

    Elaine was kind enough to rush to my rescue and take me home.  When Don arrived, we headed up there with battery cables, then had to wait until a parking spot opened up in front of the van so Don could get his car into position.  Attached the cables and tried the engine.

    Nothing.   Adjustment made.  Nothing.  A nice man came over and helped, and after another two or three attempts, hooray!  It worked!  Can't think what he did that was different, but he knew what he was going.  The LORD clearly placed him right THERE for us, otherwise we'd have had to call a tow truck, and get my parents to take him to school tomorrow, as Don has an 8 a.m. meeting in Dallas.

    Went to Sears to buy a nifty new battery.  Had to pay an upcharge due to the extra labor involved in replacing a Venture's battery.

    Then this evening I realized I'd yet to alert Paperback Swap that I'd mailed the three C.S. Lewis books (the space trilogy) to the person who wanted them.  To make a long story short, to my utter horror I realized that the three requests hitting my mailbox at the same time was in reality a coincidence, and those books were supposed to have been mailed to three separate people in three different states. 

    Oops.

    What a mercy there's Amazon's resellers, for I was able to locate the same editions and arrange for them to be sent to the appropriate parties.

    Unfortunately, for more than the $1.73 each it should have cost me, had I been careful and checked to ascertain the books were ordered by the same person, instead of assuming that was the case.

    Sheesh. 

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