It's the weekend
Lucked out this week and ended up with a four day weekend. At first it looked like work was going to take over, but the last minute changes needed a little more time for testing. Kel was nice to me and let me sleep in until after 10, then I took it easy to get going. We were lucky enough to get the van back on the road today, it needed a new oil pan gasket. Because this van is designed so well (NOT) a simple replacement cost me an extra $338 in labor. We tried a new garage that was actually recommended by the Goodwrench guys as a reputable local repair shop. I am thankful that they would be willing to save me $20/hr to go with our new place. They were up front and very nice about what we needed to get done, explaining the issue about changing the gasket.
Tried a new Chinese buffet in town which was better than the first place we've tried but not spectacular. How I miss the numerous choices we had in Tampa for good places to go eat.
We took advantage of another healthy competition between Blockbuster Video and Netflix, getting free rentals in the store for the address labels on the Netflix envelopes. It's a limited promotion that doesn't get a lot of publicity, but for each label, you get a free rental. We were able to get a couple of free envelopes and they were very happy to tell us about the Blockbuster Video Online Total Access program. It sounds intriguing enough to give it a try. They gave us a code for a two week free trial. The neat thing about their program is that you can return your mail in movies to the store for a free rental there, plus they release the next movie in your online queue without having to recieve the movie back from the store. In addition, they send you coupons for in store movie or game rentals. My biggest concern is that I don't know how good the selection of Indie films and off the wall documentaries will be available at Blockbuster. With there being decent television a few nights a week still (CBS on Monday and Friday, fun to watch Idol and House on Fox on Tuesday and Wednesday), it gets hard to watch more than a couple of movies in the week. Once we hit the end of the sweeps in May though, it's time to bump up that queue and see how many movies you can run through!
Lucked out this week and ended up with a four day weekend. At first it looked like work was going to take over, but the last minute changes needed a little more time for testing. Kel was nice to me and let me sleep in until after 10, then I took it easy to get going. We were lucky enough to get the van back on the road today, it needed a new oil pan gasket. Because this van is designed so well (NOT) a simple replacement cost me an extra $338 in labor. We tried a new garage that was actually recommended by the Goodwrench guys as a reputable local repair shop. I am thankful that they would be willing to save me $20/hr to go with our new place. They were up front and very nice about what we needed to get done, explaining the issue about changing the gasket.
Tried a new Chinese buffet in town which was better than the first place we've tried but not spectacular. How I miss the numerous choices we had in Tampa for good places to go eat.
We took advantage of another healthy competition between Blockbuster Video and Netflix, getting free rentals in the store for the address labels on the Netflix envelopes. It's a limited promotion that doesn't get a lot of publicity, but for each label, you get a free rental. We were able to get a couple of free envelopes and they were very happy to tell us about the Blockbuster Video Online Total Access program. It sounds intriguing enough to give it a try. They gave us a code for a two week free trial. The neat thing about their program is that you can return your mail in movies to the store for a free rental there, plus they release the next movie in your online queue without having to recieve the movie back from the store. In addition, they send you coupons for in store movie or game rentals. My biggest concern is that I don't know how good the selection of Indie films and off the wall documentaries will be available at Blockbuster. With there being decent television a few nights a week still (CBS on Monday and Friday, fun to watch Idol and House on Fox on Tuesday and Wednesday), it gets hard to watch more than a couple of movies in the week. Once we hit the end of the sweeps in May though, it's time to bump up that queue and see how many movies you can run through!
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