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Good morning everyone how was your weekend?

aerozeptallica · 2025-07-14T11:38:20.825Z

Friday night, stayed in ate pizza and watched The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs presents Dog Soldiers. Saturday, up early to brew a beer, got that knocked out then went to the Drive baseball game. Sunday, some friends were brewing and invited us over to hand out, so we did, fun was had by all. Still no word on my truck. Monday morning, see that Father G is back! Pretty cool start to the work week.

physical shape after a surgery on each, that I could complete the work on my 2007 Avalanche that was started MONTHS ago. It began as a semi straight forward replacement of the front passenger side door latch. This was needed not because it would not latch, but because the electronic part which tells the computer it IS latched had got the dead. Having to ride down the road with the dome light on, and the "Door Ajar" message in the dash was aggravating, to say the least.

Things began to go awry almost immediately on this job. I have had door panels off before, to replace outside door handles, since those cheap plastic POS from GM break if you breath on them. But for some reason, this time, the door panel, especially the white sound deadener, fought me tooth and nail. Then, the outside door handle broke off inside the door, just from the weight of the now removed latch hanging on it. Then, a prong on the door panel punched a big hole in my door mounted Bose factory sound system speaker.

Both of these things were not parts I had counted on replacing at this time, so I was hot enough by now that an egg probably would have fried on my forehead. I actually already had an outside door handle, as I had ordered all four, when they started breaking awhile ago. But, I did NOT have a new speaker. It was required that I part with ~$135, and wait a few days for Amazon delivery to get one. That put me past my surgery time on the second hand, and thus, the truck sat in my shop with the door open, and the door panel propped up hanging on a chair, for about a month and a half.

But, Friday, I finally felt confident enough in my hand working again to finish this job. It was just as aggravating as it had been before, but finally, I got it all back together without destroying anything else, and it all works as new now.

Saturday, ordered Subs and Pizzas from my favorite eatery here in Orangeburg, The Original House of Pizza. Nobody beats their pizzas, and their Supersub is a bohemian delight as well. Those were enough to make SEVERAL meals, still have some of the House Special pizza left, will have made at least four meals out of that food order when all is said and done, not bad at all.

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Jul 14, 2025, 8:29 AM

Thanks for asking

Friday cleaned up the house in anticipation of Wife and Daughter getting back from Clemson, cut the grass, swept, vacuumed, generally got the house looking nice. They got home about 10:15 and we all were happy they were back but sleepy.

Saturday slept in, daughter had beach volleyball tourney that didn't start until 2:00. Watched her for a couple hours (but only one match because everything was moving slow) then went to the BAD Day Music Festival. Yonder Mountain String Band was first, great band, good set, small crowd. Lightning' in the area made them cut their set short and we had to evacuate the area for almost an hour. Came back for Daniel Donato's Cosmic Country and he was really really good. The post-rain humidity had to be over 100 degrees, we were sweaty, but the show must go on. Crowd was slow getting back after the storm, but decent by the time he was hitting his groove. Lastly Railroad Earth came out. They are the only one of those bands I haven't seen. They are the headliners, but alot of people started to bail (Lettuce was playing down the street later, needed a separate ticket). Smaller crowd, but they played alot of great tunes and sounded fantastic. Home to see the dogs learned to open the pantry (new thing) and ate chips and granola bars then shit in the floor (new thing for them). So I swept, mopped, and vacuumed the floors again. Wife got home from volleyball JUST as I was finishing cleaning.

Sunday slept in, took daughter to volleyball practice, I tried out our old digital camera to see if we could get good action shots, and sweat my butt off. Home to see wife has decided to deep clean every rug in our house, so spent the next few hours sweeping, vacuuming, and moving rugs and furniture for her. I politely reminded her that she is using my only couple days off to repeatedly clean the house when she has the summer off and spent all of last week living in a hotel room in Clemson while I was watching the boys and working from home. That did not go over very well. So I just kept cleaning. Watched about an hour of Thunderbolts and then fell asleep.

Good music but when you clean the house on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, it puts a damper on the weekend.