No Racing Weekend

Wow, talk about timing being all off.

So I order this car, says 2-3 days delivery. Well, this is Germany and that's wishful thinking, but whatever. And wouldn't you know it, on the second day, after I've been hanging around the house all day, I step away for 10 minutes for the most cliche thing in the world, a loaf of bread. I come back, there's a note on my door that I missed the delivery guy. So yeah, it was two days. That's pretty good. I'll pick up the box in the morning from the post office, as it says on the note. Wish I would have been here, but oh well.

The next day I get up, take my card down to the post office, and wouldn't you know it, it's closed both Thursday and Friday, no explanation, no other information, hand-written sign in the door.

Now I can't pick it up until Monday, even though it got here on Thursday. That has completely taken me off a nice evening session tonight and tomorrow night. Plus household stress is high due to the lack of functioning bathrooms. There's one working toilet upstairs in a room that has been otherwise completely gutted [including heat - there's no heat], and a working sink downstairs. The oven doesn't work anymore and the replacement waits boxed up in our living room for this work to be done so we can install it. Until then we cook at our neighbor's vacant upstairs apartment. There's also an incredible amount of dust, which is getting everywhere, including upstairs on the track. I spent 30 minutes wiping it down, running, wiping down, running...and it's still slick and powdery. I'm definitely going to have to wait until this all blows over before really getting the track cleaned up. They said they were mostly finished with the loud grindy stuff, and they'll be doing the next, less destructive steps.

Man, sorry that you had to read all that. Wish this could have been a pictorial post about the new addition and maybe even some sweet video. That has been the plan since I got that card from the delivery company. But anyway.

I have no idea what my week's looking like, so I don't know when I'll be able to get this car and get it on the track. It'll drive me crazy if it takes too long.