Aylmer Express "MoHo" Extravaganza 2006

Today is a special day for me. Why? Because it is a day where my family gives me gifts. Who wouldn’t like that? After a nice relaxing sleep in, I was awoken by Morgan who had brought me my gift before I had even gotten my feet on the floor. What a nice son. And I like what he got for me too. Ferraro Roche … yesssssss! My son knows I love chocolate. After breakfast I got to open some more gifts. Every year the kids ask me what I want for my birthday and I always tell them what I would really like is a story from them about something we have done together in the past, where they had fun. I ended up getting two more stories which are my favorite gifts of all. Then it was back to reality. I had to take the MoHo in for service. Getting the MoHo serviced is even worse than getting the car serviced. We can really only do it when we are staying with someone otherwise we have nowhere to stay if the work required takes more than a single day. Trust me, we know all about that. And we can't just take it to the MoHo dealer where you know they know how to fix it, like you can with a car. You have to somehow find a place that fixes MoHos. I usually start by calling the Ford dealer since it is a Ford chassis and they always tell me it is too bog to fit in their garage and so I ask for a recommendation on where I should take it. That usually leads to another 5 or 6 phone calls each of which end in me asking for a recommendation on where they think I should take it. Finally you get to someone who actually says they can do it. In this case we were getting an oil and filter change but the main thing required was to get the heater control on the dashboard repaired. We noticed about a month ago that this control was not functioning. No matter where you turned the tempurature dial, full cold or full hot, all you got was fresh air from outside, but no added heat. In other words, the temperature control was bootless. Now that was not really a problem in Texas or Florida since the air conditioner was working just fine, but was soon to be a problem as we started to head north. On our way to the repair shop we ended up having an unplanned little tour of downtown Raleigh due to a wrong turn on my part. Ya, ya, I know. We should have used the GPS. Anyway, we got the MoHo dropped off and then we started to think about what we should do on my birthday. I was hoping, since I was much more south than normal, that I would be able to enjoy a sunny warm day on my birthday for a change. But no such luck. The weather sucked. So we decided to take in a matinee at the movie theatre. We chose Casino Royale, the new James Bond film, and it did not disappoint. I will go so far as to say that both Chantal and I thought that it was the best Bond film we have ever seen. Then we capped off this cold, windy and rainy day by going out for dinner. I was really hoping to enjoy some nice warm weather on my birthday for a change; however, I must admit that we certainly made the best of our situation and we ended up having a great time just the same.

Today’s word:

bootless \BOOT-lis\, adjective:
Unavailing; useless; without advantage or benefit.