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Since absolutely nothing happened today, and we never even left the rig, I thought I’d finish up with one of our last two days on our Illinois trip.

Recapping Sunday, May 24th.

For the first time in what seems like months, we got to sleep in here at the motel. Really nice for a change. Then a little after 11, we had lunch at the Arby’s across the street. We always enjoy eating at Arby’s, so I don’t know why we don’t do it more often.

About 1pm we drove over to a nearby park to celebrate our great-niece Gwen’s 12th birthday.

She’s a real cutie, and smart as a whip.

Wrapping up the party, we zoned out at the motel for a while. Then Jan and I made a Wal-Mart stop before heading down to her sister Debbie’s for the afternoon for a big family get-together .

A bunch of us went up to the top of the hill where Debbie’s husband Jim has a shooting range laid out.

Set up for pistol, rifle and skeet, we shot a little of everything.

Even Gwen, the birthday girl, put some rounds through the .22 rifle

The only thing I had with me was my Ruger LCP .380, but I did run through a couple of magazines. Every time I shoot my LCP, I kick myself for not ordering the Sweet Pea III trigger upgrade for both ours. (Jan has one too.)  The trigger pull on these is just too long to be comfortable. You really have to concentrate to resist jerking the trigger too fast because of the long pull.

But even with this problem, the LCP is still a nice shooting little gun, and pretty accurate. I was able to keep all my shots on the paper at 25 yards (well, a couple were just barely on), which is really outside what you would normally call the useful range of this gun. But still fun.

Later in the afternoon we all gather for an old fashioned hot dog cook out.

It was good to be able to get everyone all in one place (Except for Chris, Linda, and Piper. They weren’t able to make the trip up from Houston)

Afterwards the kids went down to the pond to feed the fish.

Finally about dark Jan and I made our way back to the motel to rest up for another busy day tomorrow (Memorial Day).

Well, this wraps up our second to the last day on our Illinois trip. Next up, how we spent Memorial Day lazing on the Mississippi River.

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Thought for the Day:

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.” – C. S. Lewis

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Well, as I figured it will be the first part of next week before the new windshield will be in and they will be ready to install it. But apparently my finding the windshield part number for them did speed things up.

Of course they’ve also still got the airbag to install at the same time, as well as a few other small things. Then when everything else is done, we’ll drive over and get the new tires put on.

The tire guy says that he could put them on here, but if I want to get them computer balanced, that has to be done at the shop. Of course, I could have them all put on here, then drive over to the shop and have them all taken back off, balanced, and then put back on. But that would cost $25 per tire for the extra labor. So No to spending an extra $150.

About 2pm, Jan and I headed out to have linner at the In N Out Burger here. Unlike our last In N Out visit in Las Vegas, neither of us added ‘secret menu’ things. The only variation on our Double-Double’s was that Jan got grilled onions on hers, and I added a sliced of raw onion to mine.

In-N-Out is fast becoming one of our favorite burger places. Nothing fancy, just a really good burger.

Then it was right across the parking to a nearby Wal-Mart for a few things. It didn’t take us long to decide that this is now our favorite Wal-Mart here in Prescott. It’s very clean, with wide brightly-lit aisles. Jan said there was even artwork in the ladies room, as well as green plants. Very nice store.

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On another note, can’t they just make up their minds.

First they tell us that being obese, or ‘extra fluffy’ ,as Jan calls it, is bad for your heart.

Obesity Bad For Your Heart

Then a few years later it all changes.

Obesity Now Good For Your Heart

And of course, previously, they told us saturated fats were bad for us. So everyone started using trans fats. Then they decided trans fats were bad, and we started using polyunsaturated fats. And now we’ve circled all the way back around to ‘saturated fats are good for you’.

Who can keep up?

And anyone remember how we ended up with airbags?

First we got seatbelts, but they decided people weren’t using them enough. So in 1974 they put switches in the seatbelts so that your vehicle wouldn’t start if your seatbelt wasn’t fastened. Of course this resulted in a lot of people sitting on fastened seatbelts, just out of spite.

Finally after a lot of complaints, the seatbelt switch law was repealed and we were back to the buzzer-light thing. For a while.

Then in 1998, since a lot of people still weren’t using their seatbelts, they started requiring front seat airbags in all vehicles to replace seatbelts. In fact, some early  airbag-equipped vehicles didn’t even have front seatbelts.

But in another one of those OOPS moments, they found that a lot of people were being injured, killed, or even decapitated by the airbags going off in a crash.

I mean, who knew that a small bomb going off in your face might be a problem?

So to save people from the dangerous airbags, they started requiring seatbelts again to protect people from the airbags.

And now 30 million vehicles in the US have been recalled due to defective airbag inflators, the explosive part that inflates the airbag. Apparently sometimes these go off on their own, with or without a crash. And when they do go off, they can send metal shrapnel spraying throughout the passenger compartment,, injuring or killing the occupants.

Don’t you feel safer now?

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Thought for the Day:

Why are we in this handcart and where are we headed? I smell sulphur.

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