There he is, all plugged in and everything.

So this is what went down this afternoon. Don’t worry, it isn’t all that exciting although the GG was a wee bit stressed out about it. We had a need to get Mooon Yooonit outta the driveway. Mooon Yooonit has been in the driveway for quite a while now and hasn’t been run for a long time. You can guess what happened next, right? If you guessed “her battery was dead”, ding ding ding, you win the booby prize.

So the GG got out his “jumper” (in the pic) and guess what? It didn’t work. Did it overheat or is it just dead after *45* years? I’m thinking whether or not it overheated, it’s probably time for a new one. And maybe a new battery for Mooon Yooonit at six years and I’m afraid to count how many miles. He did eventually successfully jump start Mooon Yooonit via Cygnus’s battery. But still.

I INSISTED that we take Cygnus out to Dexter’s Pub. Friends of porterization were riding with us. I KNEW Cygnus’s battery was fine. I didn’t exactly trust Mooon Yooonit’s at this point. What if we get done with dinner and the battery is dead *again*? Me and Cygnus won that sorta argument and all was fine.

And then. After he charged Mooon Yooonit’s battery this afternoon, the GG started trying to tell me a long story about Toyota design flaws (Mooon Yooonit is a RAV4) and his “jumper” and as it went on and on, I finally said something like, “I am not gonna EVER understand all of this.” He retorted with something like, “You have no idea about what kind of things I do around here.” No. No, I don’t. I am not mechanically or electrically inclined. But also, yes I do. I so so so do appreciate all the things he does that I have no clue about how to do or even that he is doing them.

By the way, the backdrop to all of this is the temperatures around here are now about zero F. and never got above five today. I’ll tell y’all (again) about what it was like to walk to high school in minus 32 degree temps some other day. And I am NOT talking about the wind chill factor, which wasn’t even invented yet. Minus 32 was the ambient temperature.

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