$700 to fix the brakes on my car - and I haven't even bothered to get the damn headlight switch fixed yet. Yuck. Anyhow - I had an interesting drive up to the dacks last Tuesday night because my headlights at first would not go on unless the switch was held down with a fair amount of force (from my foot - yeah comfortable) and eventually would not go on at all. I drove with my high beams on - which of course do not stay on unless the headlights are on - so I had to hold them on for the bulk of the 5 hour drive. I arrived around 11:30 PM to find a raging bonfire; a couple of 3 Philosphers later I was feeling considerably happier (rough day at work!). Wednesday dawned rather damp looking and definitely a little hungover feeling, so Joe and I decided to go hit the Cobble Hill golf course in Elizabethtown. I suck at golf, but I did stick it out, and even managed to bogey on one hole. By the end of the game, I basically was just using the 9 iron to chip the ball in 60 yard increments down the fairway. The problem, I think, was that the clubs I borrowed were too long for me. We had some folks over for dinner (honey basted roast turkey breast), and managed to actually go easy on the liquor. Last time we had a bottle of something, it was a bottle each of tequila and triple sec, and we managed to down all of the former and 3/4 of the latter between two of us. This time, it was a bottle of dark rum, and mixing it with Stewart's ginger ale (which tastes far mroe of ginger than Schwepps or Canada Dry or that junk), we held ourselves to about 2/3 of the bottle. I got some good beta on fishing from Matt, and I got laughed at for watching Lost so intently. Thursday, Tommy came over and we went climbing up in Willsboro right above Lake Champlain. We did a whole bunch of really great crack climbs, the weather was beautiful, and it was a great day. I did up some sausage with onion gravy and rutabegas (my favorite! So much better than potatoes! And better for you!), and watched the season finale of the Office. UGH!!! I can't believe they had Jim confess to Pam!! UGH UGH UGH! Like, that's the whole point of watching the show! The whole awkward tension between them! UGH. I am extremely upset!. Friday was rainy, so I took Stella and Rocky and wandered off in search of fish. I'd never fished the Ausable before, but it's a beautiful river. I scouted out a bunch of locations, but in the end I had to take a crap really badly and decided to just call it a day around 2:30. Took the dogs back, made a (huge) killer chicken pot pie, and napped/did crosswords inside for the rest of the rainy day. It was really relaxing. Came back Saturday, ditched the Ron and Fez party that night because I was in a pissy mood due to my car, and was back at work on Sunday. I've been working a bunch of 14 hour days at work, although it's late now, I promise to blog about the dog we had to jerk off around 11:30 PM on Tuesday night when I get a chance to blog again. It was one of the funniest experiences I've ever had...