My neighbor knows I’m pretty handy with tools and can work on cars, so he stopped by this morning to ask my advice about a little problem he’s having with his Toyota pickup truck. It’s just a little work truck, but it gets really good gas mileage and having a pickup bed sure comes in handy for a lot of chores.
He’s been having trouble getting the air conditioning in his truck to work. Although it has not been all that hot this summer, there are times when you really appreciate having air conditioning as opposed to rolling down the windows, such as when it is pouring down rain or when you are stuck in traffic.
So I took a look at it and, like I suspected, it needs a new ac compressor. As luck would have it, I know of a good place online to buy auto ac parts, and we found what he needed by searching the site for Toyota AC Compressor. The right part came right up and we were able to order it online and have it shipped to his home.
When the part gets here I told him I’ll be glad to show him how to put it in. I don’t mind doing the work but it’s better if he learns from this, so I’ll show him how to do it.
Just finished reading an article on Yahoo’s front page that talks about the top 10 best retirement cities. I was curious what made a city good for retirement, as I guess I have my own ideas about what kind of quality of life I want in my own golden years.
The article says that cost of living, jobs, and access to health services are the most important factors. Now, in my mind, jobs shouldn’t even be a part of a retirement equation. The very definition of retirement should disqualify “jobs” from that. I think that the availability of services for the elderly and recreational opportunities for the elderly would be more important to someone who is retired.
So the top of this list is Columbus, Ohio. Number two is Dallas, Texas, and number three is Minneapolis, Minnesota. I wouldn’t want to live in any of these places whether I was working or retired. So much for this list having any value to me!
My daughter wants to have one last getaway for the summer and I suggested she go to the beach now that it is “offseason” for a lot of the beaches and you can get better deals on the hotel rooms. She had gone with us on our last family vacation to Morey’s Piers in New Jersey and seemed to have a good time on that trip.
Morey’s Piers offers weekly specials and is a great family vacation destination in New Jersey because they offer something fun for everyone in every age group, and everyone in New England loves to go to the Jersey shore for the beach, the boardwalk, the arcades, the amusement rides – the whole vacation experience is right there.
The Morey’s Piers website is a good place to find hotels and motels in Wildwood, NJ. I’m sure she is looking for the cheapest room rate in a decent motel, and we were very happy with the Blue Palms motel, because it was just 1 block to the boardwalk and the room rate was under $50 per night. That’s hard to beat on any family beach vacation and its even better because it’s right at Morey’s Piers! Now I wish I could getaway and have a beach vacation, too!
I went to have an MRI done yesterday, and the doctor called me this morning to tell me that I have a torn rotator cuff! No wonder my shoulder has been hurting so bad! I’m not sure when I’m going to have that surgery done, I need to learn more information about it. I understand that it won’t heal by itself, so I have to have surgery. I’m quite annoyed by this; I don’t know what is involved, or how long the recovery time will be!
