Handling Problems

Sorry for the late post but I've been handling problems all day so far.

First of all, our trip from Mesquite, NV to home was uneventful - thank goodness. We left Mesquite at 8:45 - but lost an hour during the day with the change in time zones. Our arrival at home was at 4:30 PM. We made a stop for gas and also one to check out the new view area that was part of the new highway (I-11) from Vegas (Lake Meade) to Kingman. It was such a pleasant change from the old way of going from Vegas to Kingman. These shots were taken during our stop:

Of course, when we arrived home we had lots to do to get the house open again. There were no major problems except for one small leak from one of our toilets (it occurs only when you flush the toilet) - I have to figure out how to fix that when I get more time.

The effort to jump start the Escape that has been sitting in the garage for 4 months failed. I called AAA to assist - they indicated, after a battery test, that the battery would not hold a charge. I'll go through all the problems we've had in tomorrow's entry. We are going to grab to some lunch and get on with the rest of our day. Tune in tomorrow for updates on the Escape, the truck claim with Progressive Insurance, The Geek Squad appointment I have scheduled for a computer issue and the rest of the "fun" day we've had so far...

Late Post For Day After Birthday

This is actually the post from this morning that I didn't complete as a result of our planned trip to Columbia, CA.

My birthday turned out to be more of an average day than a special day. Of course, I had to work in the morning from 7 AM till noon. Josie was supposed to do the laundry while I was working but she got busy doing other things and didn't get the laundry done. I don't believe I mentioned previously that the manager at our park has been trying to move us from the site we were in to one that had metered electric so we could be accurately charged for our electric use. She had one ready for us to relocate to as soon as possible. We did the move after work and after a short trip to town to pick up a prescription for Josie. All of that took us till 3 PM and Josie then decided to get the laundry done while I finished hooking up the fifth wheel and setting up in the new site. Part of the material we had to take with us on our trip was a printout of some orientation procedures. As luck would have it, the relocation to our new site messed up my printer network settings and I spent another two hours trying to fix the problem - which I was not able to do. By now, frustration had set in since none of the day was going as planned. By 7 PM we decided to go to a new casino and play a few slots and have dinner. That didn't work too well either. We spent the small amount of money we budgeted for the slots and ended up having a nice, peaceful dinner at McDonald's in the casino and made it home in time to get things ready for our trip and went to bed. Some days are like that I guess.

There should be plenty of time in the AM tomorrow to describe our trip here to Columbia which was a different story. Until then...