OH WHAT A NIGHT

Last night Darren called me from work at 11:30 and told me that his altenator on his truck went out when he was giving a part-time employee a ride home. Since Cassie was in bed sleeping there wasn't much else that I could do except call over to my parents house. Thankfully my dad had company that was spending the night and they were still up. My dad and his friend ran a vehicle over to Darren so he had a ride home and my dad just drove Darren's truck to his place so it wouldn't be sitting out at the plant all night. Today, Darren checked his altenator and it was fine but the cause of the problem was the smog pump. No parts store had that piece on hand so he had to have one ordered and it should be in tomorrow so Darren will have my parents vehicle for another day or so until he can get that changed over. Stupid vehicles, if it's not one it's the other one. On Saturday coming home from Grandma Hanson's there was a terrible shaking in the car and a really bad grinding when we slowed down and pressed the brakes. Darren checked the car and the brake pads were bad and there was even metal shavings from how badly they were being worn down. Fortunately when Bumper To Bumper in DL closed, Darren was able to get them pretty cheap for the Buick and he put them on so now the car doesn't shake or sound as bad anymore. I can't hardly wait until the end of this week to find out if Darren gets that new job he applied for. If he does, he is going to be doubling his income and after bills are caught up we can buy that Dodge Grand Caravan that we have been looking at.