Finally, it's football season

and other positives and negatives for the month of August.

Kicked off the month in a rousing way by getting a huge pain in the back. Started on Thursday (yes, I know that was July) and I had to go to the Dr. on Friday. He diagnosed as muscular with a reasonable possibility it was pleurisy. I really don't care what it was, but it made me very unhappy. Getting better now, back at work and so forth. Need to start exercising again, but my mileage for this week and last is going to be shot.

Finally, it's football season!! Saints are well into training camp, and the Tigers reported Sunday. I've been looking forward to this basically since last season and I can't believe it's finally here. Watched the HOF game Sunday night on the plasma and it was great!!
Saints tomorrow night, so I may have to crack open a beer on a school night. First college game is the 28th (I think) and the Tigers first game is the 30th.

Nothing has been done on the Jeep in about 3 weeks. As it stands now, I'm buying an old harness from a guy on the Florida Jeepers site, then I'm going to solder it into the Painless harness so I'll have bulbs for the gauges. THe new painless kit is $500 and thats just too much. Maybe later I'll buy one and rewire the Jeep again. Also on the agenda is the body lift removal and replacement. Hope to have that done this weekend, but I'm not going to bet a large quantity of money on it. What I do plan to have done is oil back into all the places I drained a few weeks ago, namely the front axle, transmission and transfer case. Once I find a new gasket for the rear end, I'm going to drain and replace that as well. While I'm at it, I'm going to replace, or at least tighten the bolts on the exhaust. When I had it running a while back, it was really loud and I noticed the bolts from the manifold to the downpipe are loose and there is a huge gap there.

Later