Dante's Spirit

Took a while to come up with a title for this post. 'Seriously?!?', "WTF, over', '*sigh*', 'You have got to be kidding.'... you get the idea.


CR-V is back in the shop. Check engine light and VSA (Vehicle Stabilization Assist) light came back on, 4 times since last night. Came on, on Mark's way home, he pulled over, checked fluids, VSA light went out, check engine stayed on.

I told him to call them today. So naturally, check engine light went out even before he left this morning (it was on when we went to vote at 630am). But! It happened *3 times* on his way to work (car shudders, check engine and VSA lights come on).

So I woke up to him texting that he called, they said bring it in, they'll run a free diagnostic to see if it's related to the work they did or not and go from there. He went ahead and rented a vehicle. Keeping my fingers crossed that it's related to previous work, because if it is, it more than likely will be free or at the very least, inexpensive.


Got a message via Ancestry last night, from a half 1st cousin 1x removed (she's a Millennial, I'm a Gen X), they are in the same spot I was, in regards to my dad's birth father- their great grandmother never spoke of him, their grandmother, my dad's half sister, didn't remember him, as he'd died when she was 9. (Which can't be right, if she was born in '42 as they says she was, he died in '53, she'd have been 11.) They know nothin of a son, the grandmother says she was an only child.

But if she was born in 1942, she'd have been listed in the military records, and she's not, the son is.

She is *definitely* my dad's sister- dna proved that, as well as they look similar. At any rate, they'd never even seen photos of Algernon, or his dad, Carl, and had a lot of questions I was able to mostly answer.

Turns out their grandmother's older half brother via her mother, had 4 kids, at least one of which lives here in Virginia. The half brother died in Viet Nam and is listed on the Wall.



Warm today, so I have a few windows open. Nice, light breeze. Still very dry. Hoping for rain this weekend, and not the leaves kind. Thankfully the underground spring that fills the well is still going strong, so no worries there.


Got some sewing stuff I need to do, so off to do that.