Last weekend

Drat! It's already Wednesday and I still haven't had a chance to write about last weekend. It wasn't anything spectacular, but at least parts of it were fun.

Saturday found me driving to Milwaukee for a house warming party for an old college friend. The trip was about 6+ hours round trip. She has a beautiful house now with a nice yard. While there, another fellow and I put together her portable fire-pit. After that, I managed to fix her wireless connection on her laptop. Hopefully the fix will hold, but no guarantees.

Sunday was a little less fun. (Incidentally, 6+ hours in a car in one day is not listed as fun in my book.) My girlfriend and I went to a family gathering held at my uncle's place. It was a combined belated birthday for his spouse and anniversary celebration. It would have been great except for the people. ;-) I also managed to bounce my head off a shelf protruding from the wall in their very modest home. The shelf survived, but only because it didn't belong to me. Had it belonged to me, it would have been crushed, obliterated, destroyed and burned. Any remnants would then have been ground into the dirt. Sorry folks, I'm not a fan of little knick-knacks that have no function and snag people's clothes and flesh.

Lately, I've been trying to get some wood, too. No, not that kind of wood. I'm looking for the kind that one burns in a wood-stove. I found some, but then the fellow didn't want to sell me only 2 cords so he was going to sell to someone else. Then, the someone else didn't call him back so he called me and said that he'd love to sell me a couple of cords. Of course, in the mean time, I found someone else willing to sell. *shrug* I think it'll work out, though. I'll be buying initially from my first contact as he probably has better quality wood. If I run low, I'll call the other. :-)