Ahhhh, four-day weekends are GOOD.\u00a0 Our long weekend started developing last Wednesday, at the Brooksider of all places.\u00a0 We happened to be down there having some dinner, and griping about a problem we’ve been having with our car.\u00a0 For the last several years (yes, YEARS) the Accord has been bedeviled with this problem where, when the weather gets hot, it won’t start.\u00a0 It will run like the finely engineered foreign auto that it is, and then BAM, you come out from work and can’t get home.\u00a0 It might start five minutes later, it might not start for two days.\u00a0 We’d taken it to our regular mechanic a few times for this, and mentioned it to the dealer, but they could never replicate the problem while it was there.\u00a0 So, we’re sitting around the table bemoaning the fact that we basically have no four-wheeled transportation when it gets over 80 degrees, and one of the guys at the table says “Oh, I know exactly what that is, that happened to my Honda.”\u00a0 OK, yeah right, somebody named “Flop” knows the answer to the mystery of our non-starting car, which our $100-an-hour mechanic has assured us is absolutely the oddest problem ever to beset a vehicle.\u00a0 And not to discount ol’ Flop’s word or anything, but just out of interest I go home and Google “honda doesn’t start when it’s hot.”\u00a0 What do you know, my mechanic and myself are the only people in the free world who don’t know what the problem is.\u00a0 The moral of the story?\u00a0 1.)\u00a0 Always Google any problem you’re having, somebody else is having the same problem.\u00a0 2.)\u00a0 Flop knows everything.\u00a0 (Incidentally, buoyed by this success, I searched on a problem I was having with my Palm Pilot and fixed that too!\u00a0 Wonderful times, people.)<\/p>\n
Anyway, first thing Thursday morning, Donette took the car up to our (NEW<\/strong>) mechanic and he fixed it right up.\u00a0 We were so excited by our new-found mobility that we decided to take a road trip;\u00a0 All we needed was a destination.\u00a0 We did a little quick research to find the best available entertainment in the nation over the Labor Day weekend, and found that Night Ranger<\/a> was playing in Denver!\u00a0 Wow, what luck!\u00a0 We got there late Friday afternoon and hooked up with Ed<\/a> and Kim, who kindly put us up for the weekend.\u00a0 The big show was Saturday night, and lived up to our every expectation, easily overshadowing the DMB<\/a> show we went to last Tuesday.\u00a0 Those guys truly put the “power<\/strong>” in “power ballad.”\u00a0 Our only regret was that Donette cut off her hair just a few weeks too early, so she wasn’t able to get her 80’s bangs on.<\/p>\n OK, so they were just as over-the-top cheesy as they were last time I saw them, circa 1987 or so;\u00a0 I can’t really remember that far back.\u00a0 The most noticeable difference between the shows was that last time they were at sold-out Kemper Arena; this time around they were doing a free show at the Taste of Colorado<\/a> festival.\u00a0 Other than that they were pretty much identical.\u00a0 And our weekend didn’t really<\/em> center around the concert.\u00a0 We visited Golden<\/a> for an afternoon, ate lots of good food, (including some fresh Hatch green chiles,) played some cards, and generally relaxed.\u00a0 As a bonus, our car reliably transported us both ways, SWEET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ahhhh, four-day weekends are GOOD.\u00a0 Our long weekend started developing last Wednesday, at the Brooksider of all places.\u00a0 We happened to be down there having some dinner, and griping about a problem we’ve been having with our car.\u00a0 For the last several years (yes, YEARS) the Accord has been bedeviled with this problem where, when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}