Go Fly a Kite

Today was a lazy day. I slept in until around 10:30 and managed to avoid doing anything of note all day. I read a little bit while the little kids played outside and in the afternoon Susan and I walked over to the park and flew our kite. I bought this kite about 4-5 years ago and have probably managed to put it in the air about as many times. When I went to go buy it I remember asking the guy which was the easiest kite in the store to get airborne. He did not steer me wrong. You could tie this kite to a stake in the ground and as long there is some breeze it will take off. Susan kept the kite airborne for about a half an hour before she got bored watching the chimera-like tail dance in the wind. We pulled the kite in and started back to the house. About half way back the van passed us with the rest of the family on its way to meet us. Susan got in and John and Becky got out. They only lasted about ten minutes with the kite and John let go of the string twice. Luckily there was a playground on the walk back so they managed to have some fun on this outing.

I am fairly certain that the couple people reading this have given up on me by now, but I did promise to write about my car and about nepotism. I'll save the nepotism as a teaser on the off chance any one is reading this. Shortly before we left on vacation I got in my car to go to work. I drove about three blocks and noticed I was slowing down. I finally slowed down so much I could have walked faster. I managed to pull over to the curb and park the car before it died. I really had meant to get an oil change all that week. Dawn drives the company car because when we got offered a car form the company I work for the van needed to be replaced more than my commuter car. She gave me a ride to work and during the day arranged to have the car towed to the dealership. They put some oil in the car and were able to get things running again, but recommended about $1000 worth of work. We decided to drive the car home that night and postpone the decision until we got back from our vacation. "This will give us two weeks to think about it," says I. Flash forward two weeks, it is Friday and we are on the drive home. No thought has been given to this whatsoever.

~insert boring decision making process~

On Monday I drove off the lot in my newly leased 2005 Honda Civic. Mine is the value package and it is black. I won't get into the reasons right now, but this car is perfect for me because it is reliable and doesn't have any unnecessary bells and whistles.