Bad Luck With the Good

While driving out of the Peppermill parking garage on Sunday evening to go do our shopping while we waited to see if my $271 winning keno ticket would turn into a $500 bonus prize (it didn't, as I described yesterday), we suffered a setback: no air coming out of the air conditioning system. That is, the fan wasn't running.

( Not What You Need, Especially Just Before a Long Road Trip )

After three trips to the parts store and considerable improvisation with washers and tape, Lisa undertook to fit the replacement blower motor into the minivan. It was around 9 PM, which did mean it was comfortable temperatures in which to work, although the bugs drawn to the shop light were annoying. I held the shop light and handed Lisa tools as she directed.

( Blower Motor in Place )

Lisa said, "If I get this installed and working, will you order us a pizza?"

I said, "No." She looked startled. I explained, "I can't. It's after 10 o'clock, and everything is closed." Lisa allowed as that was a pretty good reason. I offered to take her to Denny's (our only 24-hour restaurant in town now that Amazon moved out of Fernley, taking with it the late-shift workers that justified late-night restaurants), but she decided to just call it a night.

Lisa is worried that the repairs may not hold. I, however, am astonished that Lisa got it to work at all. Assuming that keno ticket didn't drain all of our luck away, this should hold together long enough to get us to Worldcon and back, after which we can look into getting better replacement parts more or less at our leisure.

Not Enough Luck for Kuma Bear

travelswithkuma, AKA Keno Bear, was the hero for winning 6/7 on our keno ticket on Sunday night, but he was disappointed because we've promised to buy him his own fish tank full of fish if we ever get the 7/7 winner.