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One Last Time

Over the past few years, Jes has accumulated a few toys that now sit around unused. These things include an extra bicycle, an extra iPod, and an extra car or two. Now that he’s in between jobs, he has the time to put these items up for sale and actually sold both the bike and iPod on eBay for more than he expected and then today he sold his RSX. We’re also getting rid of the CL on Saturday so by tomorrow, we will be a single-car family…at least until Jes finds a real job since I’m not sure how far this “sell-my-old-stuff” job can take him. Anyone looking for a Palm Tungsten? It’ll be up for auction on eBay very soon.
By the way, Jes parked the CL in the “premium spot” tonight for one last time. (see entry dated 03.09.05)

Jes’ Fun Little Game

We have lots of cool neighbors. We even consider some of them our friends. Unfortunately, there is an older couple who haven’t been very friendly to us. In the past year and a half we’ve lived here, they’ve never waved “hi” or even cracked a smile. They live right across the street and we have to see them quite often when we walk Koa. No problem…it’s cool.
Anyway, we have the X3 now and have to park the CL out on the street until we sell the RSX. When this started, Jes decided to park it right in front of the grumpy couple’s house for fun and left it there for a week. The poor wife couldn’t park her precious car in front and had to walk an extra few steps to her house each day. When we got back from Mammoth one day, we found a note on the windshield. It basically said to move our car because it was taking up a “premium space” used for their convenience. It was signed “Your Neighbor” but we know who it came from. These are people who have 3 cars, a 2-car garage, and park only 1 of them inside!! Boy, this made Jes’ blood boil and has created a little monster out of him. So since our little note incident, Jes has made an extra special effort to put the car in “their spot” as much as possible.
Just this afternoon, I moved the CL to the driveway to give it a wash. The grumpy wife came home with her daughter, parked in the “premium spot”, and pointed me out to her. Now she thinks it’s me!! To make things worse, when I finished washing the car, Jes drove the CL away and parked it back in that spot as soon as the daughter left. Mind you, the street was completely empty *sigh*…so the game continues.

A gas station!!

I went to Mammoth for the first time this weekend. Jes and I brought my brother; and Debbie (my cousin-in-law) met up with us on the mountain too. The snow conditions were great and we got in a full day of skiing/snowboarding. We also got to try out my new toy…a new BMW X3! Yup, we ordered it a week ago and it got delivered just in time on Friday evening for us to take it up to Mammoth. It was sweeeeeet. There was snow and ice on the road and it handled it just fine. The only near disaster we encountered this weekend was on our way back. We miscalculated the gas station locations and almost ran out of gas in the middle of the desert. The trip computer even said that we had zero miles left on our gas tank but we had enough fumes to go around a mountain to a small gas station that was actually for dirt bikes. Phew! I was totally getting ready to call for roadside assistance and sit for 2 hours.

We salute you, Jawbone!