Day 27

It has almost been a month! Not a lot has happened, but everything that has happened has been crazy!!

1. I am looking for suggestions. The 4th of July is coming up quickly. People at work like to point this out to me on a regular basis. They want pumpkin and pecan pie, but I told them that isn't really a 4th of July thing... They also thought that pumpkin pie is a savory pie, so they wanted to eat it with tomato sauce. Anyway, so I need some ideas of what to bring to work to surprise everybody with a disgustingly patriotic display.
2. Car troubles. Jon bought a car a little while ago. Pretty cool Subaru wagon... Got it inspected- all good. Clutch seems iffy, but the inspector said it's fine. Turns out it isn't fine. We bring it to the dealer and he says it was a used car, so you get what you get, but he will take it to his shop and get it repaired at a good price. He gets the clutch replaced and Jon asks to have it covered. The guy says no, but he will split the cost since it was inspected and the inspector didn't catch it and Jon said that I might be buying a car from him sometime soon. And the dealer said he would get Jon dealer rates on his 10ok (km) service. Fine. So the clutch seems to be taking awhile to break in... And then the diff starts getting crazy. So Jon takes the car to a mechanic that was recommended to him by my manager, Jonti. The shop takes a look- the fly wheel was never machined. So Jon takes the car to the shop and they say that the dealer said not to do it because it would be cheaper. The dealer says the shop told him it wasn't important and wasn't worth the extra cash. So the dealer is taking the car to another shop to be repaired on the basis that he didn't know the job wasn't done right and that he thinks I am going to buy a car from him. (I would if I didn't think I'd have to deal with this crap!) So he loans Jon a red BMW 318i. (I've gone to work with Paul at this point because I can't be sitting around waiting for the dealer to get in to give Jon a car.) The Bimmer has no petrol, so Jon goes to put some fuel in. The dealer told Jon: leave the car on while you're filling it up. There are two reasons he could have said this: 1) he wanted Jon to explode and blame him for being stupid, leaving this all behind him 2) ...the car won't start. Jon is at the gas station, an hour late for work, asking for a jump. So Jon gets to work. We stay late at work and then try to leave. Keyword here: try. The car won't turn over. So I go running around the parking lot (barefoot) asking people if they have jumper cables (jumper leads). No one has any or the don't know what I'm talking about since I'm not using the right word or they want nothing to do with the crazy barefoot American girl. Finally some guy helps out and we go home. This morning, Paul came to pick us up, then we went to pick up Larry. Larry told Paul he MIGHT walk to Starbucks in the morning, so the whole drive we have to look out to see if Larry is walking somewhere. We go to Starbucks- no Larry. We wait a few minutes to see if he'll show and then decide he thought it might rain, go to the hotel, find Larry, go to work.

Now it is bedtime and I'm tired as!! :)