Jay and Ozzy Hit The Road

A midweek post...sometimes I have a plan and sometimes a plan has me!


Went to KIA in Concord to have a tune-up done on the van.  In order to access the plugs, you need to take the manifold off!!!  So, labor will be...and, you need a new throttle sensor, couple tires don't look so good really should have new ones...so, don't even guess amount of money it cost me...too much!!


So left Concord feeling really poor, not in a good mood at all!  Drove to Keene where I spent the night.  Tried to find a place in a Keene State College lot, but, the officer on duty was not very friendly and said no way could stay in any lot.  So, I found a space on second floor of parking garage and slept pretty well.  Got up and thought that Ozzy and I would go to Brattleboro for breakfast.  Five miles outside of Keene my check engine light came on...not happy at all!  Decided to go back to Concord, go to an auto parts place and have the code read...would then decide whether I needed to do damage at Concord KIA or not.  Code was for oxygen sensor, nothing to do with yesterday's work.


Had breakfast in Concord and drove back to Keene.  When I was in Keene the day before I noticed RetroMusic on Main Street which didn't open until 11.  Well now I return to Keene around 11 and would check out RetroMusic.  Those of you following the blog know that I have a guitar that I've been trying to sell that no one wants to buy.


Pulled into Keene around 10:30 and got a call from someone in Lancaster, PA, Mary Cae Williams who I knew 45 years ago.  She is now director of a Montessori School in Lancaster and we had a great discussion, some of which was about the possibility of me doing some work in the school when I get down there.  Nothing firm but a very positive conversation with possibilities.  Now feeling a bit better.  Still money, or lack of it, is a constant weight on my mind.


Went into RetroMusic around 11:15.  Brought my guitar in and to make a long story short Jeff bought the guitar from me for $1500!!  Ecstatic!!  Cashed the check...in order to deposit the money I needed to return to the north country to deposit in my bank.  Drove to Plymouth, which is where I left just yesterday morning to go to Concord.  Plymouth to Concord to Keene to Concord to Keene to Plymouth.


Up, down, up, down, up, down, up...$1500 goes a long way for me!!  Sometimes I have got a plan and sometimes a plans got me.