Clear blue and 22. Bella and I went to the doggie park and Paul and Camella were there. Bella and Camella played and chased each other around. Very cute.
Paul told me they are leaving today. They are going to Colorado Springs to visit his daughter for a week. She is a Chemistry instructor at the Air Force Academy. They will be gone about a week and then probably come back here. We will probably still be here when they get back. It has been nice getting to know him and his wife Adele. And, Bella has really enjoyed playing wit Camella and their little Yorkie Buddy.
I asked him if he could use his truck he has a Dodge Ram Diesel 2500) to jump our Dodge Ram diesel 3500. He said of course.
He came over about 10ish and we had to let his truck rev hooked up to our truck for about 5 minutes before ours would turn over. In the mean time, I got ahold of the Dodge dealership here in town. I made an appointment with them to check out the ignition switch and check out our batteries (we have run them all the way down to nothing twice in two weeks). I let the truck run for a bit, but I talked with Rob and he told me I needed to actually drive it around.
I thought maybe I would drive it around and then go down to the river and go for a bike ride, but instead, I decided to find a hair salon and get my hair cut. I made an appointment for noon and had an appointment for the truck at 1:00 perfect.
I drove around the base for a bit, and then I drove over to the Dodge dealership. I thought I would go there and turn the truck off and if it wouldn't start again I would just leave it there and ride my bike to my hair appointment. As it turned out, I turned it off and it started up again. Yippee.
I drove to the neighborhood where my hair appointment was and parked. Then I went to a place called Chinese Street Food and had lunch. Then I walked over to the hair salon.
It was an interesting place. When I walked in I actually asked if it was a hair salon. Initially it is a bar. Beer and wine, to include champagne. Then then is a pool table, then there is an elevated area that has hair salon chairs. Oh, and did I mention that it smelled like someone was seriously smoking a truck load of pot. (as it turned out it was sage).
But, the gal who did my hair was awesome. I must admit that I am having a difficult time going gray. I am super white in the front. As it turns out I am very dark at the neck line which gets lighter as it goes up my head and as it goes to the front, it is white at the front. Hmmmm. When I walked in for some reason I had a lot of gold or yellow tint in my hair. Probably from them bleaching to blend with the white. Anyway, Stephanie was not happy with the color, and neither am I. So, I made an appointment with her for tomorrow to have her work on my color.
I like the cut, and she styled it totally differently which put it a lot in my face (which I don't like it in my face) but, it was pretty cute and different.
So, I left there and went directly to Dodge. I checked the truck in and went inside to their lobby. And hooked into their internet, and there I sat. Two hours later the man came to me and said "the batteries are dead and need to be replaced; the ignition switch is faulty and needs to be replaced (duh!!) and we are missing one hub cap and one is all cracked up so they will be replaced and we need your permission to go ahead with the work". Hello!!!! I brought my truck to you and told you what I needed!!!!. So, after authorizing the work that I called and made an appointment about, I still sat for another two hours while they did the work. Seriously?!!!? Change two batteries, put center caps on the wheels and change the ignition switch??!! The only difference was that there was a recall on the driver's side air bag so they replaced that. That must have taken an hour and a half! Oh, and they charged me $1200. Seriously??!! They get you by the short hairs!!!
So at 5 pm I left the dealership and drove back to the base only to find it shut down. No one on or off base. Hmmmm.
After about 5 min. they started letting cars onto Base, but they were not letting anyone off base. I asked the guard (when they checked my ID card [which they do every time you come onto the base]) if there was some sort of incident. She just said there was an alarm that went off. Hmmm. I drove to the Famcamp (the RV park)which took about 10 min from the entrance gate, and they still were not letting people off the base. That was sort of odd.
Well, happily I was home. I ate my leftover salad from Sunday night, and watched TV. My favorite TV nite. NCIS, followed by Bull, followed by Chicago Fire!
After that I went to bed.
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