Welcome Home!

Don't get used to all these posts. They're kinda like me and washing a new car. I get excited about it for a little while and then say fuck it and start growing corn in all the dirt built up on the car.

Anyway, just prior to our leaving for Hawaii at the end of June Mrs. LKs transmission started to act up. After taking it to her preferred mechanic, the dealership, they tweaked the controls a bit and said this isn't going to fix it, but it may help a bit. For a little while. That lasted a day. So the dealership will only install a new transmission to the tune of around $2000. Ugh.

The car is in great shape and has been well maintained, but I just can't see it being around long enough now to justify a brand new transmission. So rather than try to deal with it the day before we flew out we parked it and decided to discuss options once we'd relaxed a bit in Hawaii.

We relaxed.

We discussed.

Last Sunday we dropped it off at a tranny shop to have it rebuilt for about half the cost of a new one. So be it. Got a call yesterday that we could pick it up today at noon. The battery has been acting up on it apparently. It's the original which means it's been in there since 1998. Not bad eh? So now we need to get another on the way to pick it up. Fun. Still better than having them put one in.

So that coupled with my dental safari earlier in the week has made for a wonderfully vigorous exercise of the pocketbook. Yaaaaaaay Bundy!