journaling: enabled

No subject. Just ramblings. First of all, I would like to say it sucks to see someone you love in pain and know you can’t do anything to help. liz4jc4ever has been having mouth pain, probably due to dental work she had done last week. She tried getting hold of the dentist today … called 3 times to try and set something up and they never called her back. Kinda makes me wonder if I really want to go there.
Had a “nice” little “surprise” this morning at work… one of my workers decided to quit. This wasn’t really a surprise to me since I knew he had a heavy course load.
Tonight a friend came over and helped me clean my truck’s air filter. I guess it turned out I really didn’t need his help getting the filter out, but it’s nice when someone else who has experience can show you what you don’t need to worry about when taking something apart. In case you’re wondering, my truck has a K&N high-performance air filter in it that doesn’t need replacing. In this case, it did need a good cleaning and oiling. Hopefully this will improve things … not that it was running all that bad before all this.
It’s a beautiful night outside. Nice and chill. They’re having a training session for running/using the telescopes at the observatory tonight, but I didn’t find out about it until today so that was rather short notice. I am going to try to make it to the observing session next week. I haven’t been up there since they put in the new scope. When I was outside tonight putting my filter back in I noted the pleasant aroma of wood smoke. I think I really miss that from growing up. It’s one of the things that would tempt me to live in the country, though I don’t believe there’s anything against burning wood in town (though that just seems kinda wrong). I’m heading up to my parents this weekend and hope to get some wood cut for them. Hopefully the chainsaw is behaving itself otherwise that could prove to be a frustrating endeavour.
My mom called tonight and indicated that the computer I gave them is apparently acting up … as in it won’t boot up. No lights or whirring or anything. I hope it’s not anything serious. I got a call from the shop I took my g5 to for repair last week… they finished it and it turned out that the video card was bad. I am looking forward to having it back. My laptop is nice but has nowhere near the zippiness and power. I’ll probably pick it up on Thursday.
Well, it’s off to bed for me. I made lunches tonight so hopefully I can sleep in just a little bit longer tomorrow morning.