...I want to take a vacation.

I want to take a vacation, but how do I go about this. I am short on cash right now, but I would really like to go back down to Tampa.

So, I started figuring shit out.

According to Google Maps...it is 1270+ miles to the Castle, from my house. Driving straight through, that would be about 21-22 hours of driving. SO....

my car gets about 32 miles per gallon... 1270/32 = 39.6ish gallons of gas to get down there. I have a 14 gallon tank... so 39.6/14 = 2.8 tanks of gas to get down there, and lets say that gas is at $4 a gallon just for fun... that's $56 per full fill up... $156 to go TO tampa... and $156 back.

shit. it's still cheaper to fly...

I need to do more math on this.

...I got a few things done around the house.

So today did not go as planned at all. This was the original plan...

Wake up and go to home depot and get myself a new garbage disposal
Install said disposal
Deep clean the kitchen
Deep clean the floors on the first floor.
Go to dinner for my lady's belated birthday dinner with her family.

...here is what actually happened.

woke up and got the new garbage disposal from home depot
started installing said disposal.
heard running water when none should be
found leaking/burst pipe near the basement toilet (yes, I have a toilet in the basement)
removed toilet piping from the line (had to be at least 40 years old) and went to home depot again...
bought 1/2 inch galvanized plug
plugged the line
water is now back on and not leaking everywhere ruining my basement floor!
back upstairs...Start hooking up disposal pipes...
pipe in the wet wall breaks (SON OF A BITCH)
Off to home depot... again.
get parts I think I need....
realize the pipe in the wall is very badly damaged and again... back to home depot...
Got the right parts for sure this time.
Now everything is all hooked up.
Tested, water tight. no leaks...
...had to miss dinner with my love and her family.


I guess the good that came out of this is that it is done. I won't have to worry about it any more. I still want to get the downstairs toilet operational again, but I don't use it all that often, so it's not a rush.

...I am posting this ahead of time.

Today will be a great day. I already got to ride in on the motorcycle. I will be leaving work in an hour. And this afternoon, I will be heading up to a nice bed and breakfast with my lady for the night. Tomorrow we top it off with a day at Summerfest and watch the fireworks.

It's going to be a good 48 hours where I don't have to worry about anything really. Just what to eat, and lounge around.

...I went to State Fair Park and it didn't flood.

So, I went to State Fair Park this weekend to attend Greek Fest. My lady dances in it every year and last year I was unable to attend because am.psych was celebrating our latest and only cd release with a 3 day mini tour on the same weekend.

Well, this year, I was able to attend... and, a Jorgensen of Crego decent stepped foot on the fairgrounds and it didn't flood.  Laugh all you want, it's happened twice before.

The fest was interesting. I have never seen so many people just happy to be entertained by dancing. They went late in to the night last night and the band kept playing past 10 even though that was when it was supposed to be done. Greek time I guess.

I liked it. I'll be going again. It was really a fun time... minus the ride where my leg was almost crushed.

...it's been a while.

I needed this break from the blog. It was really starting to be a burden and that was not the intent of it when I started it.

So, I am going to be changing things up in here. Yes, I will still post. Yes it will still be about what is better for that day or moment.

Thank you to everyone for sticking around. The posts will be a bit longer than I usually do as well.