Another vacation day - albeit more eventful. The day started normally enough, we got up early to take my older daughter to work. Afterwards we went to breakfast and then went back home. A couple of hours later my wife had a doctor's appointment and after that we went to Wal-Mart to get some stuff we needed. This is when the fun (!) begins. We left Wal-Mart and got about 200 meters down the road and the car died. We moved the car off the road and then gave it a few minutes and tried to restart: the car turned over but did not start. After waiting a couple more minutes we tried again and this time the started whined but did not engage (that is how it was explained to me by our mechanic). After trying a couple more times we came to the realization that the car was not moving from there on its own. That's when we had the car towed home. Our mechanic came and had a look at it later in the day and gave us the bad news about needing a new starter. He will be back on Friday afternoon to replace the starter. And there will go just about $300.

The rest of the day was pretty much anticlimactic. Had dinner, watched some TV and vegetated in front of the computer. So I don't really have anything else to say.

Good night!