July 8, 1997

I wonder if these are going to degenerate into a once-a-week thing...

I think I may add a daily earworm feature that will force me to be in my tree every day. Perhaps that will lead to more frequent journal entries...or perhaps not.

Weekend Pass 1.

We went to the VA/WV border to camp over the weekend, and it was great. I think we are going to False Cape this weekend because:

1. Tino wants to go somewhere more level
2. We'd like to see the ocean
3. It's my birthday weekend, and I don't want to spend it in Washington
4. It's the only Virginia State Park on the ocean with primitive sites. If anyone cares to refute that, I'd love to hear about it.

For information about the trip, see Laurel Fork Wilderness Area.

This is too ridiculous

I spent Thursday evening through Saturday afternoon out in the woods, and I didn't get a single bug bite. I come home, and I get five mosquito bites in my own bed. Just shoot me. Granted, I was careful out in the wilderness because bug bites swell horribly on me, especially spiders, but the air was on, and all the windows were closed at home. What the hell? This annoys me to no end.

My first service visit on my BMW

I took my car in for it's demanded "Oil Service". It was $200 bucks, and it's the equivalent of a minor tune-up. An oil change only costs $30. I'd be OK with this except for a few things:

• The service manual clearly says that a car wash and vaccuum are to be included in the cost of the "oil service", and they didn't even think about cleaning my car up.
• I was bummed out that I had a rent-a-car as a loaner. I thought they'd just give me a car off the lot, like they do in the Midwest. I can understand why they don't - VOB does a huge volume, but I was hoping to get to drive a model one-up from mine. I'm sure the Midwestern dealers do this as a sales tool to get you to fall in love with a more expensive car than your own.
• I had to wait for the Chevy Suburban loaner for 45 minutes and that made me very late for work.

I have no complaints about the Suburban. It's a nice enough car and it made me, for a brief time, the BIGGEST thing on the road short of a real truck. Oh, and it had a compass in the rear-view mirror, which gets whizz-bang points. The one good thing about the tune-up: They do a wheel-balancing and tire rotation and that car is now more perfectly aligned than any car I've ever driven. On the other hand, maybe I've been driving around with at least one low tire my whole life :)

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