Just before dark today...

It's not often I can catch a good sunset from my house. It's not that they don't happen, I just live too close to people. The houses tend to ruin the beauty. :P Luckily, this one was really dark, but light in just the right spots!!!

Well, they shipped out my new cf card and it should be here in up to 10 days. I must have packed it satisfactory.

***vent below***
We took hubby's Blazer in to get looked at today. I'm not exactly happy about that one. I can just say, screw aamco *insert two honks here* We had the transmission rebuilt in February at aamco. I was always pleased with them before, but this time was different. They ripped the exhaust off and it was ruined.

Initially they said it wasn't their fault and it was like that when we brought it in. Luckily, the mechanic came out and apologized to hubby over the holes he had caused while ripping the exhaust off to get to the transmission. So since he admitted fault they paid Midas to fix the exhaust. Midas sucks too. It wasn't completely fixed. Of course, neither was the tranny at this point. We had to bring it back twice, once for the exhaust and once for the tranny making rattling noises. It was honestly worse than when we brought it in! They refused to warranty the job they did for more than 30 days, or maybe 90? Anyways, all other times we were guaranteed 1 year or a lifetime.

Okay, skip ahead, hubby just deals with the loud exhaust but then the transmission is making noise again. Instead of taking it back to aamco, we take it to our neighbors stepdad to fix it. Hubby's cousin had informed him it's the throw out bearing??? and aamco should have replaced it with all the other work they had done. Figures.

So we take it in Monday to get fixed. We get a call from the neighbors mom, who says, bad news... your transmission is gone. uhm no!?!?! Hubby asks how she figures. Her "mechanic" husband drove it and he said it's bad. Hmmmmm... I don't believe it. The guy owns a wrecking yard and fixes up cars to sell. We've sold him a couple of cars we refused to fix because the cost to repair was more than the car was worth. (makes me wonder if those weren't as bad off as he said) I can only think this is probably the case too. He used to have a really great mechanic working for him, unfortunately he's no longer there. So, instantly hubby is ticked and says, well we're junkin it. Nope, not a good idea. I want a second opinion.

There is a place we take our cars to now, which is a little more expensive, but they are quick and accurate, so hubby calls them. They tell him to bring it on in, it does sound like the throw out bearing and possibly some other bearing? I think he said pilot, but I'm not sure. He also says they repair aamco's "fixes" more than he likes to say. Oh nice.

The good news is, it will be 6 hours of labor and 60 bucks for parts. So hopefully that is all it is. I can't believe I'm hoping my neighbor's stepdad is as lazy and predictable as I think he is. We find out tomorrow whether it's worth fixing.
***end vent***

I'm actually really tired with no real reason to still be awake. So, I'll leave you with a joke I thought was kinda cute. I get an email newsletter daily throughout the week and there is a joke of the day, this was today's...

At a southern university,
students in the psychology program
were attending their first class on emotional extremes.
"Just to establish some parameters,"
said the professor to the student from Arkansas,
"what is the opposite of joy?"
"Sadness," said the student.
"And the opposite of depression?"
he asked of the young lady from Oklahoma.
"Elation," she said.
"And you sir," he said to the young man from Texas,
"what about the opposite of woe?"
The Texan replied, "Sir, I believe that would be 'giddy up' ".

There's also a thought for the day enclosed in that newsletter. I liked todays.

The ultimate measure of a man
is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience,
but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.- Martin Luther King, Jr.