Today is Martin Luther King Day but no extra celebration of that holiday seems to have been a part of the Day in Augusta – except that the state government and the post office had the day off.
We spent the day starting with exercise at the YMCA at around 7am. There was a man there wearing the Vibram shoes with the toes separated. They look rather funny but he assures me that they have been the best shoe for his feet. He was lifting weights and I wondered how the shoes affected his ability to lift heavy weights such as he was. I have seen a couple of other people wearing these “five finger shoes” as they are called. So I looked them up in the internet on my Iphone and one website bragged that they had Vibram shoes cheaper than anyone else – up to 65% off they brag. Well, I looked at the write up of the shoes on this site and it is quite obvious that the description of the shoes in the sales blurb was written by someone who obviously is not a native English speaker. The English is really odd and I would speculate that the wording resembles patterns exhibited by Asiatics. One sentence was “We would be pleased if you look to it”. Just what do they mean? In any case, the price was at least 2/3 cheaper than the brand on other websites and so I wonder if they are cheap knock offs and because it is the internet, I tend to not believe what they are trying to sell. After all, the vibram shoes worn at the YMCA look to be much more substantial than these on this website.
We came home for breakfast and then we drove to two places for an estimate to fix the car. The first place is not far from where we live and it is a sprawling complex and seems to be connected to the new auto sales place on the corner of rte. 3 and rte. 201. They quoted $650 with $100 more to replace the windshield washer reservoir. As we were leaving, we had to skirt the back of a tractor trailer that had tried to negotiate a slight incline to the next working level but the road was one solid sheet of ice and when we got there, his trailer was blocking the road pretty much and the driver was attempting to put on chains so that he could make the delivery. The next place we went to quoted $650 and that included the reservoir for the windshield washer. The third place we went to is the place in the pictures. The man does restoration work on cars and is the Bishop of the Winthrop Ward. He lives way far away from anyone and I bet it is quiet at night in his neighborhood. He has been the bishop now for 6 weeks…………….I do not envy his task. I am pleased to know that he is inclined towards family history…..now that is a rare bird indeed. He did not give us a quote. He said he would scour the junk car yards for the part first and then give us a quote. I was expecting a bill of around $2,000 to repair the car because car repairs are really expensive these days……..therefore even $650 sounds like a steal.
We came home for lunch, had a short nap and then I started back working on the Lockyer family history. It is so messed up that I do not know if we will ever get it straight. Seems like it has been copied and copied and errors have crept in and let’s not forget the kind soul who just linked the family to someone on the internet without thinking – purely because the name was the same. The dates are so off the mark in one instance that we have a man who is 36 marrying a 9 year old girl. I doubt if that happened in real life but with a little help we should be able to get them all corrected and then the problem is to get them corrected on new family search……………….that might just take a millennium to do.
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