Awake: 5:05am Sleep 4+46 overnight in Service Bay # 12
1st thing this morning, Roger & Mooney do the finishing touches on the TV trim which matches the wall pattern. Then Roger continues working diligently on removing extra wiring from the Bose sound system & slowly installs the new Marantz unit.
Meanwhile Kathy, one of two coach cleaners, starts cleaning in the back & works her way forward. Both she & Cheryl are very thorough & meticulous in their jobs. The guys tease them but love them dearly as they are noted for their sense of humor & cheerfulness.
Lunch today for all employees & customers was on Boyd Metals; a local company that supplies the Newell company with a lot of good steel. By the way, the Boyd that we know at Newell is not part of that business. The hamburgers with all the trimmings, sausage, sauerkraut, baked beans, potato chips etc, were very delicious. K & I really appreciated being invited as we made it our dinner also.
Kathy drives into town to visit a certain thrift store & the library & also discovers a new (to her) little neighborhood grocery store that is known to have good meat which she decided to buy some of.
Meanwhile, our coach gets repositioned into bay # 14, the alignment machine spot. Aligning a motorhome with a steering tag axle usually takes over (3) hrs & Claude is one of (3) who does that magic. Later Claude gives me the before & after reading print out. When the alignment is finished, Kathy the cleaner does her final clean up & our coach is ready to be moved to the outside campsite.
@ 4:45pm, Kyle, another Newell driver, takes our coach around to the front of the service building & parks it in a campsite. I visit Creslie & Twila for the paperwork printout. No charge for all of these renovations; the 1st PM (preventive maintenance) was on Newell; the renovations were on Sam & the fixes were on our (2) yr guarantee.
We are happy to be all done. Tomorrow it will be (1) month since we’ve arrived. Kathy was very patient & understanding throughout the process & I learned a few more things about how our new systems work & what to do when they don’t work so my education time was well spent.
Our dinner was the leftover hamburger, etc from lunch.
We finish watching the movie: “Tokyo Story” with Chishu Ryu, Chicko Higashiyama, So Yamamura, etc. An elderly couple (Ryu) visit their children in Tokyo, who are too busy living their lives & treat then tactlessly. Quietly powerful story of old age, the disappointments parents experience with their children & the fears the young have of time passing. Not shown in the U.S. until 1972. 1953 with Subtitles; it’s a masterpiece. I found myself thinking about this story days later.
Not being too familiar with our new Marantz sound system, I was unable to get surround sound working while listening to Fox News or this movie. It was working just fine on (4 speakers) after Roger did his magic; however the system was (1) bracket shy so the 5th speaker had to wait to be installed on the wall late this afternoon. I’ll check with the manual in the morning for further ideas.
Lights out: 11:40pm
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