Tales of an Aspergian Bus Driver

Festivals & Rebuilds

Several days of updates, bound into one, because of 'net outages and such.

Thursday night SummerFest opened. I went. Summerfest is loud. Very loud. And chaotic. Very chaotic. I stayed for a bit, decided there was nothing interesting going on, and left. I then went to Mo's Irish Pub to listen to The Orphans play (or at least the better 2 members play). That was nice - good music, and a few people that showed up were fun to talk to - Jake, who works with Tiffany, who is Roger's fiance (Roger is a coworker of mine). Also some people who recently moved here from Ireland. I really want to go back to Ireland now (I went my senior year in HS with the marching band).

Friday I went to Summerfest again because The Orphans were playing. It was a good show, and I hung around for a while. One thing is very clear - Milwaukee is a beer town. EVERYONE had a cup of beer, including a good number of people that I'm pretty sure weren't 21.

Saturday I went back to Downers Grove for Heritage Fest. I wandered around there with my parents, which was nice. I've grown old enough to realize that my parents have a bit of useful knowledge to share.

Saturday night I realized I was sick. Either I ate something bad at one of the festivals, or my stomach finally said "Ok, ENOUGH of this crap you're feeding me!" I've been living this summer on fruit, yogurt, and light sandwiches. Heavy junk food is not the same.

Sunday was "project rebuild the engine." It didn't get very far, but everything is ready to go together tomorrow (Monday). Cooper is grinding the side seals down tonight on a grinder wheel, and then it should be ready to go back together. He also brought over his cruise control module, which is now installed. I'll put the cruise control actuator on when the engine goes back in, and I should have cruise control on the highway!

That's about it for now.

-=Russ=-

Posted by rgraves at June 27, 2004 07:55 PM