While walking back from the mailbox at 2pm today, one of our neighbors stopped us. I noticed him when he got out of his car with his wife. He had some sort of instrument in a bag, but I noticed that it didn’t have a neck. He said that he just got the best deal in the world. He had just bought a broken cello at a yard sale for $1. I said, “Cool! You could get somebody to fix that and sell it for a lot more probably.” He said, “I know it’s broken, but it’s a good deal.” Then he added, “I don’t know. I’m a little drunk, though. Maybe it won’t seem so good later.”

I said, “I mean, you can’t even buy gum for one dollar.”

He said, “I know. I just bought a bloody mary for nine!”

I responded, “You could have bought a whole broken orchestra for that!”

Our car broke down again. Oh well. It kinda happened in a “best-of” the worst type situations. It wasn’t good, but I suppose it could have been more inconvenient. It just so happened that I was off the rest of the week for November break, so I didn’t have to freak out about how to get to work. So that’s a plus. Betsy was great in handling it. That was another sure plus. Now we just have to figure out what to do with the busted car, and also whether or not to get another or fix this one (or some 3rd option).

If anyone has any ideas/points of view that we haven’t considered, we would love to hear them. Sometimes we come off like we don’t want people’s ideas or questions in these type situatons. It’s not that; it’s just we want to consider all aspects together and do our best to handle it. Thanks for everyone’s help!!!

The server where I host this blog was attacked with an overload of spam or something, so that’s where the site has been over the past week. Sorry for the down time! I hate it when it goes down, because then people start to think that it has gone away or something. Oh well.

Now that it is back up, here’s some news. This week is super-short and then we get off for the rest of the week! Tomorrow is the last day of the work week for me, then it’s relaxing from Wednesday on. School has been going very smoothly lately, but Bets and I are still quite ready for a break. I can’t wait to spend some extended time with Betsy!

On Friday Betsy and I just chilled, listened to some music and watched a view shows. Saturday we were antsy most of the day for some reason, but we did have a nice breakfast together in the morning. We eventually settled in at night. Today was really nice. After going to the meeting this morning, we decided to go see our respective parents for a bit. That was fun.

Hmm…I know this blog entry isn’t much, but my mom said she was missing the updates. Maybe once I get rolling again, the entries will get more interesting. They were getting lots of comments for a while there.

Feeling a bit better this weekend. Hopefully Bets and I will get some good rest and time together. Thought I’d update the ol’ blog for once. hehe. I’ve got to take some more video soon.