Mission accomplished.

The S-10 has a new inspection sticker. It has been almost two months since we replaced the engine in the little pickup, but due to some problems with the engine, I hadn't been able to get it inspected.

I told the man who inspected it, I had mixed feelings. I felt like an outlaw renegade before I got the sticker. He asked if I would feel that way if I got that $111 citation.

The past two weeks, one of my drivers has been driving the little pickup. He drives fewer miles on weekdays but drives more miles on weekends. I also wondered if a different style of driving might help too. My driver tells me he has added one quart of oil in a thousand miles. (I was adding a quart every two hundred miles). Maybe the rings are seating. I have already changed the oil (at six hundred miles). I was using a synthetic oil I use in nearly everything. The
re-builder recommended a cheap multi-grade oil. I put in the cheapest oil Chris's store carries in a 5W/30.

The little S-10 is fifteen years old. My insurance carrier didn't want to carry full coverage on it. In fact they told me it was too old to for them to insure. I explained that I had just put in a new engine and I was wanting to be sure if something happened, I could recoup that investment. It is not like it cost an arm and a leg, it is about $362 per year. I am sure they probably wouldn't pay more than a couple of thousand if it was totalled.

I thought it was interesting that when they told me they couldn't insure the little truck and I told them I would look else where, and if I found coverage they would lose all my business, they suddenly could insure the little truck.

I can't imagine any one or any business turning someone away in times like these.

Krl and I had surprise company yesterday. It was very pleasant. I just wish I had more time. About time our company arrived, my driver returning from Fort Worth called asking me to meet him at Tye.

Ollie had driven Addison to Abilene for Addie's Dad to pick her up for her birthday visit. I'm not sure it will be a birthday visit. When Addison has spent Christmas there, her Dad and his live in don't let Santa come for her. (Of course, Addison now has a half brother on her Dad's side.).

Who woulda thunk Addison's Dad would be the cream of the crop that Addison's mother would drag home?

Krl had told Ollie she would pay to refill her prescriptions one more time. Ollie stopped by to get a check. She had the 'scripts tranferred to the pharmacy closest to our home. Between her insulin and her bi-polar and antidepressant, she needs all the help she can get in finding a job. (To be honest, not even her Dad would hire her when she is off her meds).

For those of you sitting on the edge of your chairs, the Fort Worth transmission shop did exchange transmissions, no questions, no problem. That almost proves my suspicions that the unit was one of theirs. While that is re-assuring, it is also alarming. It makes me wonder if we got another hybrid, and if so did that contribute to the problems we encountered.

They did give me a one year unlimited miles warranty.

Now we just need to find some work and get busy!

I hope to get all of the date sensitive material for the board meeting/bid presentation finished up today or tomorrow. Then I have no intention of touching it again until it is handed over at the meeting.

Last night I dreamed I won Mega Million and went to the meeting and told them I would pay all the freight for the next season. I gave the contract to Greg and then I was his boss. It was a hoot!

Hope your weekend is off to a good start!

FATHER, thank YOU for this day and all the blessings it holds. FATHER I ask that YOU bless my efforts with the new contract proposal. Help me to be gracious in victory or defeat. I know that whatever happens, it is part of YOUR plan for us. And, I know who I have believ-ed.