December 1-10

The first few days of December were as quiet as the last few of November had been but it didn't stay that way for very long. The laptop I had for close to ten years finally died, I got a good deal on its replacement at a local electronics store. This is the third laptop I've owned, the first lasted from its acquisition in August of 2002 until May of 2012 and the second from then until now. On Monday the 6th I stopped in at basketball practice at McCaskey, the boys start their season on the 11th at home versus Chester (and I'm out of it for hockey in Reading). Freddy Ramos is back for his fourth year at the helm, assistant coach Cedric Horne is taking over as head man with the JV squad and Jason Yurchak and Nick McArdle are back on staff as well. I gave Freddy a list of the games I'll be absent from (right now there are five, two home and three road), he was going to give me the scorebooks but I told him it wasn't necessary since I'll miss the opening game. On Thursday I took the car back to the service center in New Holland, the door and radio were being fixed the next day. They called in the afternoon to tell me it was done, when I arrived they tried to bring the car up front and discovered the battery was dead. Somehow the parking lights were left on the entire time it was sitting in the parking lot, they took it back inside to get the battery recharged. While it was inside the Check Engine light came on, they told me they would keep it there to get it figured out and give me a loaner at their expense in the meantime. There is a well-known car rental company attached to the service center, they gave me a 2021 model with 29,000 miles on the meter and a Florida license plate. It will definitely be needed, between lunch with Jenny and her mother in the morning and the hockey game in Reading in the evening there is travel on my calendar for Saturday that simply will not take NO for an answer. As for my car I assume the door and radio are OK, I wouldn't know because I never had a chance to check any of it out personally. Take care, thanks for reading.