Tools, Argh!

Found out today my harmonic balancer puller has some screwed-up threads. Not sure how that happened, but it stopped me short on turning the Blazer's engine into a bunch of small parts.

Almost simultaneously, Friend Tommy called, and asked to borrow a tool I have to finish doing brakes on his daughter's new (to her) car.

And offered to help me on the Blazer tomorrow until *I* got tired - which should be around 11pm - midnight.

Sounds like a good trade to me :) I'll get the tools and parts I need tomorrow afternoon, then Tommy and I should be able to finish up fixing the timing chain tomorrow night.

And when we finished the brakes on the Daughter's car, we enjoyed a few beers, cigars, and good long talk... something we haven't been able to do in WAY too long.

All in all, a good evening :)

Ups and Downs...

We shelled quite a few peas tonight, Lisa and I... enough for several meals.

Not as many as I wanted, but still a decent amount.

Blazer's still broke... based on the available evidence, Uncle Alex agrees that the most likely scenario is that it jumped time. That's my next project - and it may delay further blogging for a while.

Alex is for-real walking. Not very well, but he's doing it. I think I'm about to have my hands more full than I ever have yet. Why don't babies learn to use the toilet before they learn to walk? That would really even out the workload.

Ahh well... life goes on. Some good, some bad... but that's what keeps it interesting, right?