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Here are LRN4 and me in Cabo. I took a lot of pictures in Cabo. Great Art courtesy of a kind stranger. Who fortunately didn’t run away with my camera.

Pretty good day. LRN4’s still quite sore around the neck and shoulders, but otherwise showing minimal ill effects from yesterday’s unfortunate incident. No word yet on the final state of her car. I expect we won’t find out until next week. We might find a little time to do some car shopping on Saturday. Maybe not. LRN12 will be with us, so it might get a bit busy.

Otherwise a normal day. Worked like a dog (ate, slept, scratched, and used the bathroom) and came home.

LRN4’s working the phones right now, planning an upcoming road trip for LRN2 and her. They’re going to see her sister in San Diego, LRN3 in Mesa, and her other sister in Las Vegas. Spending the last 10 days or so of May. It ought to be fun, and I’m only sorry I can’t go with them. I’m simply out of vacation. Sigh. I do hope she has a new car by then. We ought to be able to work that out, I believe.

Speaking of working the phones, I’ve gotten robocalls during dinner the last two days for some idiot sheriff or something who must be running for office – I don’t stick around long enough to be sure. My bottom line – he just lost my vote, even if I would have otherwise liked him. Grrr.

So I’ll leave you with this shocking food violence news: meat repossession!

See you tomorrow.

Here’s the interior of the old church in Cabo. The dog was an unexpected guest and actually did something quite rude on the floor before our guide shooed him out the door. Most unexpected. Not to mention unseemly.

Need to stay kind of brief tonight. LRN4 and I have spent the evening researching new cars, so it’s a bit late. Yes, it looks like we may be getting rid of her trusty old Sable. I’m very sad to report that she was in a most unfortunate accident early this morning. She’s sore around the neck, but otherwise fine. A young man in a old beat up primer-gray Buick made a left turn into her – not in front of her, into her – forcing her into another car. Both sides of the front of her car are damaged, with the left-side damage much more heavy than on the right. The left front wheel is all skewampus, leading one to believe that very expensive internal damage was probably done. It’ll be towed up to Sacramento tomorrow and a claims adjuster will give us a verdict within a couple of days after that. We expect it will be totaled.

This is very sad. We had hoped to have the Sable last two more years, after which we would give it to LRN1 and LRN4 would get her new car. Looks like that plan is probably gone.

Anyway, we’re looking at the Ford Taurus (I would really love an SHO, which is too darn much money but massively cool), the Ford Fusion, the Ford Edge (LRN4 loves the seats and it’s pretty cool), the Ford F150 (also way too much money, but it’s affordable because it would replace both the Sable and the Suburban and become my car – I’m not entirely sure about this option, but it would also solve the Suburban falling-apart problem), and the Mini Cooper S. After we get the Sable verdict, we need to go do some serious shopping. Probably.

And it’s bedtime already and there’s nothing else to report. So I’ll leave you with this outstanding employment opportunity: monkey cop.

See you tomorrow.

Here’s the beach at Cabo. Not a bad place to visit. Lots of Americans and touristy stuff, but still not bad.

Normal day. At least it didn’t rain. No more rain until next Sunday, according to my beloved iPhone. Worked, ate, and commuted. Nothing to report.

Oh, I did do some more indexing on the train. It’s a great way to pass the time. Also listened to some Car Talk radio shows. Not a bad way to spend the trip.

Netflix sent us Some Like it Hot, one of my favorite old movies. We’re watching it now and enjoying it greatly. “Buttermilk!”

We got two very entertaining emails from Austin, our nephew on a mission in Africa. He was very descriptive. Turns out Mozambique is a bit buggy, hot, humid, and dirty. But the people are wonderful and he’s having a great, if a bit rugged, time. I’m looking forward to hearing from LRN1 tomorrow. One more week in the MTC for him!

Speaking of which, I owe him a letter. So I had better quit here and get writing. I’ll leave you with this shocking food violence news: sausage man attack!

See you tomorrow.

Here’s a hotel in Cabo. I liked the colors. Taken during our recent Mexican cruise (duh).

Wonders of Blogger. I missed posting on Tuesday (scouting meeting) and Wednesday (no excuse), so I can’t miss Thursday. It’s off Friday today, so there’s time.

Not much to report, though. So let’s stop pretending it’s Thursday and talk about Friday instead.

It’s cold today! The official temperature is 53 degrees at a little after 2:00 in the afternoon, and it’s windy as all heck and raining. Not a great day to be outside.

Which is fine with me – I’ve been getting a lot of computer-type stuff cleaned up and fixed up, as well as some reading for my calling. I need to get out there and clean the pond filter and fix a broken sprinkler pipe, but those things are going to have to wait until tomorrow. Which is the first day of General Conference, but I ought to be able to work them in anyway.

So it’s a nice day to stay bundled up inside. We’re so cold, LRN4 even turned the heater back on. Which is pretty extreme for April around here. I was thinking of spending a little time in the spa this evening, but it might even be too chilly for that. We’ll have to see.

Okay week at work. It appears that all of my soon-to-be-rolled-off people have now found jobs, with the exception of the one who went to another company and the one who was already laid off. I’m delighted to not have any more layoffs to do.

LRN4 wants to go to Kohl’s today, but not until after 3:00 when the daily super-duper sale is in full swing. She got ten bucks’ worth of free stuff there for buying a bunch of groceries the other day. She doesn’t know what she wants to get yet, so we might have to browse around a bit. She also needs to make a trip to Costco, so the afternoon should be eventful. In the meantime, LRN2 went to San Francisco with his friend Josh and Josh’s mom. They went to a comics convention(?!) and they’re also watching a movie made by Josh’s brother. Sounds like fun. I hope he took a jacket, though.

And that’s about all the news today, so I’ll leave you with this shocking food violence news: beef jerky theft.

See you tomorrow (today).

Here’s the view I had of the Oakland Temple on Youth Conference day last Saturday. Had a great day, if a bit tiring. Great Art courtesy of the famous iPhone-cam.

It’s Friday! Funny day at work – nobody was there. That’s fine because we didn’t have that much pressing business anyway.

No post yesterday. No good reason, other than that I was at the gym. I just got busy. Not that anybody particularly missed it. Sigh.

Not much to report anyway. Wrote a letter to LRN1 this evening. It had been more than a week, I believe. The time is going so quickly. He’ll be back before we know it. We need to get his room/my office cleaned up before he gets here.

LRN2 had a big day today – he had his audition for the organ scholarship and . . . wait for it . . . got it! Congrats, LRN2! Of course, the money will pretty much all go to his organ teacher, who suggested he go for it, but still. That’ll free more of my money up for gum and candy. For me. So LRN2 may not be getting all that much out of the scholarship after all. But the important thing is that he earned it by being such an excellent organist. Which he is.

Tomorrow is Great America day. We’re looking forward to it. Should be about 74 degrees and sunny, which is nothing to scoff at. Ought to be a nice day.

Well, that’s about it for today. I’ll leave you with this shocking food violence story: taco holdup!

See you on Monday.