timonium 21093

change your own damn oil

Is what I wish they would say to me at the car place. To those of you all who remember, I said goodbye to my faithful and blessedly simple american car and purchased one of those fancy japanese models. Well, I am a do-it-yourself of on the cheap if you can kind of guy who is friends with the guys at a garage. I always got my oil changed there. Always and it was never a big deal. Well now with this new car, the maker assumes that you are either too rich/too inept/too stupid to have your oil changed anywhere but at the dealer. How is it do they do this? By having your check engine light come on everytime you are past due for an oil change. ::sigh:: AND AND AND can only be turned OFF by the dealer. ::sigh::

So I just had to drop my car off at the car hospital so they can turn the damn light off and get a speech about getting regular maintenance there. quel joie. I'll show them I'll uh...eh...ah to hell with it.

The state fair is in town. Also David Newhan is on rehab assignment in Bowie. Friend Josh and I made the Han'j down to Bowie to see him but they gave him the day off. Josh returned today and got his autograph, he just called me from the park. I think another reason I fell off the blogmap is that after Newhan went down I lost all interest in the Orioles.

not quite dead yet

hello? anyone out there? is this thing on? other hackneyed phrases to ask if anyone cares anymore if i live of die?

ok, so no apologies in the world are going to cover for my lack of blogging. in fact i feel really bad about it. so bad that i have abandoned the use of capitalization. for at least as long as writing like this drives me a little over the edge. but i assure you there is a good reason.

first of all, about two weeks after my last entry, my grandfather passed away. i know what you are thinking - that he was old and blah blah blah. this hit me a little harder than most. yes, he was 90 and yes he could get on my nerves sometimes, but he lived in my house for 15 years. he was a member of my immediate family. he practically raised me so yeah it was tough. he died in his sleep in his own bed in a house filled with family members who loved him dearly. we should all be so lucky. so that was one of the reasons that i haven't blogged in about 40 years.

i have been really busy this summer. work has really taken a new tone to it and it's gotten hectic. hectic to the point that i haven't even had time to read any of your blogs in about 2-3 months. the month of june is basically a blur so i feel like now i am finally getting back on track. but i am definitely back and i look forward to getting into this thing again. stay tuned.

night y'all.