Grrrr

Last week Thursday, I banged into something (I don't know what, and I don't remember doing it). Banged into it hard enough to dent the aluminum hard case on my palm and shatter the display. I just got done setting up a repair order with Palm to have them fix it. The display is a $65 part, but the only place I can find it (PDAParts.COM, as PalmOne says they don't carry it) has it one backorder for at least two weeks. Hopefully, sending it in and letting Palm fix it will also cure it of the (fairly common, but still annoying) 'Tungsten Noise Problem.'

Also this morning, I got a call about 10 from teeka because the shaft for the quick-release on her back axle had broken while she was biking her trailer into campus. snakewyfe went to our house, got the truck, picked up Teeka and her bike and took both to our house. Then Teeka picked me up and we picked up the trailer and dropped her and it off at Library Mall. I need to do some calling around and find out if anyone in town has one, since the folks at Middleton Cycle tell me that the spare we ordered a month ago hasn't come in yet.

Weekend Recap

Last week Friday, my father-in-law (Ron) had reconstructive surgery on his right should to (hopefully) reattach a severed tendon. teeka and I went up Thursday night (she for emotional support and me because they needed someone to run the chainsaw).

Surgery supposedly went well, but they won't know for another week or two - the accident happened six or seven months ago (they had been thinking that it had happened about a month ago - when he fell of the dock, but the surgeon said it was the accident before that when he fell on the steps at work).

My job for the whole weekend was to catch up on the big projects to that needed doing so that Ron wouldn't feel the need to try to do them himself. Mostly, this meant catching up on wood. They live "Up North" and use wood both for home heating (they also have propane, but wood's cheaper) and for their hot tub. My mother-in-law can split wood by herself (slowly), but isn't willing to do the chainsawing of the big logs into splittable length.

Also up there over the weekend were friends from Illinois. Bernie (one of the friends, who is 77) ran Teeka and I ragged trying to keep up with him. He's one of those physically fit old farts with stories on everything, who still moves fast enough that the only way I'll guarantee I can outrun him is if I'm on the 4-wheeler. We cut, split, and stacked 2 full cords of wood on Friday and Saturday. They left Sunday morning, and between Sunday and Monday, I had about enough energy to cut wood for about 1/6 cord of split wood.

I also put up a second set of bannisters on the other side of their stairs, which my mother-in-law wasn't happy with because I had to move one of her circus posters, but then she started using the stairs and realized that the second railing helps her with going up and down the stairs and makes it easier for her to walk normally (she's had both knees replaced). I think the longer section of bannister may stay permanently, but the bottom section (the stair turns a corner and the lower section is only 4 steps) may come down later.