Remember my car problem?

Well, there was that whole power steering issue... it's been solved.
(serious sheepish look here)
I was putting the power steering fluid in the wrong place. Luckily it was the transmission and the two liquids are interchangeable.
I feel like 'such a girl!'.  Sheeesh. Thought I knew what I was doing!
Okay so that's solved. Moving on now.
It just needs a tune up right now and a brake job which son in law and son can do for the cost of parts.
Other than that, the empty spot where my molar was is pretty much healed now. This is a good sign. It means that healing time for that sort of thing is less than a week. Which means that I may have a shorter recovery time than I expected from surgery.
Which... has been postponed until mid October at the earliest. Seems my primary surgeon is taking the first two weeks of October off and then they have to co-ordinate with the hospital for bed space and operating room...
So as soon as they get back to me on that, I'll pass it on here.  This also means I will likely be out of commission for Halloween. No great thing for me, but for the past five years I have been the co-ordinator for the children's scavenger hunt at the nursery. Since it is on a Sunday this year, I don't know whether it will be the Saturday before or the weekend before. I guess that is going to also depend on my condition as well as whether they can get a substitute.
There are few families that actually make it a point of coming down to do that, some years it's been well attended and others it's been very light. I'm sure it won't be a bad thing to cancel it for this year.

I am still planning on trying to go to Disneyland for my birthday, likely not on my birthday since that's a Saturday, might make it on Ava's which is a Tuesday. It's just a lot more fun doing it on her birthday because it's such a big deal for her.  Depending on other factors I'll see whether I take the train up or drive.
This has been a yearly thing for me for the past four years. Last year was an absolute blast and I need to get some more pictures of Ava having fun to make another slide show with music. It really is all about kids there, big and small. It is my favorite place to go and has been since I was little. So many memories of going there with my family, friends and then my kids. It's different every time.
I would like to go in the spring for Devon's birthday but again, it depends on what's happening.  As I've mentioned, I don't like to make plans too far ahead...you never know what's going to screw them up at the last minute.

I had a wonderful, long conversation with Talib on a video chat catching up, talking about everything that is affecting us.
I was reminded again at how far technology has come. We were effectively doing a 'video phone call' on the computer. I remember seeing that sort of thing in Tomorrowland presented by Pacific Bell I believe. Wow..that was the future!  Making a video telephone call to someone across the country!
I remember in high school being amazed at the 'computer room' that was actually a storage room that had a teletype that connected to the phone line to the mainframe computer in Berkley that likely took up an entire area the size of my high school.
Now... that same computing power I think is in an iPod touch.
Just freaking amazing.
And this didn't cost us any extra being on the internet! (Which reminds me I need to go download Skype)

We are living the future we read or talked about almost forty years ago.
So where are the flying cars and the colony on the moon?

Okay, I'm now getting tired... it's just a little after 10pm and I'm now tired. That's okay, it's been a long busy day.

One last thing... as a tribute to what today is, a B5 quote (Sorry Olivia and Talib, it is from Season 5, but it doesn't spoil anything)

Delenn is meditating on a candle flame on the eve of a war and Sheridan comes over to sit down next to her.

Sheridan, "What does the candle represent?"

Delenn, "Life."

Sheridan, "Who's life?"

Delenn, "All life, every life. We are all born as molecules in the hearts of a billion stars. Molecules that do not understand politics, polices, or differences. Over a billion years, we foolish molecules forgot who we are and where we came from. In desperate acts of ego, we give ourselves names, fight over lines on maps, and pretend that our light is better than everyone else's. The flame reminds us of the piece of those stars that lives on inside of us. The spark that tells us, you should know better. The flame also reminds us, that life is precious, as each flame is unique and it goes out, it's gone forever. There will never be another quite like it. So many candles will go out tonight. I wonder sometimes, if we can see anything at all."

Whenever I hear of someone that has touched my life, or someone close to a friend losing their life, no matter to disease, accident or war, I light a candle in their memory. I did this for a recent chat friend who lost his fight after a devastating fall. I was gone all day today and did not light a candle in honor of 9/11, but this close to bed time, I will do so now.

A candle to remember all those who have lost their life against their will or by the hands of someone else who took it from them.

Good night.