Berck declared that we had to do laundry yesterday, because it had been 5 days and he was out of underwear. Fortunately, the house’s new washer and dryer were being delivered. The refrigerator also arrived, so now we can keep the few remaining cans of Dr Pepper inside it. Unfortunately, the refrigerator wouldn’t make ice. Berck’s dad finally figured out that you had to hold down the water lever until water came out (a really long time, since it has to snake through all the tubing used to make it cold and then reset the ice tray. I washed a…
Berck and I spent the night at the new house last night. I had to literally make our bed. We got up and fortified ourselves on salt & vinegar potato chips, the breakfast of champions, and set to work on the car. Berck decided to get some sanding pads to clean the gasket sealer off the top of the engine block, since our scrubbing with carburetor cleaner had only marginal results. The rest of the contents of the storage units arrived after noon, and the house got a lot fuller with disassembled furniture and unpacked boxes. It also meant the…
Berck woke me up at 1 am last night when he and his dad got home from flying the Airbus simulator to tell me all about it. “That was well worth coming to Memphis for.” Maybe he can write more about it here… if he ever stops working on the car. Berck got me up this morning to say it was time to go work on it. His dad drove us to Sears to buy a torque wrench and 12 mm socket, then out to the house. My assignment was to find a machine shop in Memphis to take the…
Monday, December 11, 2006 Southern Tour — Day 3, Sokoban We started off the day with a big breakfast at Perkins. Then we drove our Miata out to Berck’s dad’s new house. He and Berck’s grandmother bought it so he can take care of her. It’s a huge house. Next we took grandmother home to Aunt Robin’s house (all three of them are staying there presently) and went to rent a truck. Berck’s dad went to U-Haul, despite Berck telling him he’d be sorry. He had called to reserve a truck an hour ahead of time. We got to the…
Southern Tour – Day 2 We ended up eating at Chili’s last night after driving around and not being able to find anywhere else we wanted to eat. There were tons of cars parked downtown, which meant there were hundreds of people going out somewhere nice, I’m sure, but I couldn’t figure out where. So we gave up and had cheese sticks and chicken fingers at a place we could anywhere in America. The good part is that they had Shiner Bock on tap, and after an exhausting and frustrating day, all we wanted to do was sit and relax…