Bittersweet (10-04-12)

As I've mentioned before, I hate leaving when we are visiting one of the kids . This time it's a little easier since we will all be together for Christmas, which is approaching faster than the speed of light!
Sad to say I didn't even take my camera out while we were in Michigan. I told Jess I need to get a more recent picture of her, since the ones I have are a year old and were before she dyed her hair (again). She is one of those rare natural blondes who dye their hair darker. Anyway, the only picture we got was the one she took with my phone and set as my wallpaper so I can look at her beautiful face every time I use my phone.
Sunday Jess went to the Lions game, and Paul and I were planning on watching the Pats play. We had everything done that we needed to do, kicked back with our feet up, turned on the TV and realized we wouldn't be watching the Pats play after all. It didn't dawn on me that the Lions and Patriots were playing at the exact same time, so of course the local station was showing only the Lions game. I quickly downloaded a radio app onto my ipad, and listened to the game on the radio. Of course, I left the Lions game on the TV, so every time there was a good play, I instinctively looked up at the TV. At one point the Pats were down by two TDs and my son called to chat, since the game wasn't all that interesting at that point. 15 minutes into the conversation I commented that the score was now tied. We said goodbye pretty quickly once we realized that! The Pats did win, but the Lions lost. I had fun. Paul gave up and worked on one of his projects.
We are on the road to Boonville Missouri right now, stopping there before we head to Livingston TX.
Here's why we are headed to Boonville:
Recently Paul decided he wasn't 100% satisfied with the comfort of the ride we have while towing the trailer. Sometimes we have "chucking", which is a jerky motion caused by the difference in acceleration/deceleration between the truck and the trailer. Our existing hitch takes care of some of the problem but not all of it. Paul called someone we know who used to own the company that makes the part of the hitch that is on the trailer. Paul has called him before to ask about the suspension and the axles and he is a wealth of information. This time Paul wanted to know what our options are for making the ride smoother, and Dale said "c'mon down" to Boonville, where the two of them will put their heads together and figure something out.
While planning our route we discovered that we can drive through the Hannibal, MO area and check out the Mark Twain Museum.

This post is a test. I am posting it from my ipad.