Travis and Michelle Fitzgerald's blog

Just a quick update. We’ve taken down our back fence that was damaged in hurricane Ike. Somehow I don’t think it was a well-built fence since I pulled one of the fence posts out myself…then reached in the hole and pulled out the cement. The 7 foot posts were only buried about 16 inches deep, and some of the holes had only about 5-6 inches of cement in them. But the next fence– the next fence will stay up! (Or burn down, fall over, then sink into the swamp…)

Other than that? Someone asked me last night what I’m doing for fun these days. I thought blankly for a moment but all I could come up with was, “Working on ULF2.” Not a good answer. Reading and video games have been my escape lately (big surprise), but they’re not very universal conversation topics. Should I try to find something else to do, just so I can have something to talk about? …I think not. Seems too much like work.

After a week and a half of access to the internet only on the iPhones and at work, we have internet back at home! Hooray!

nothing quite like cleaning out two flooded out homes to make me realize how lucky how lucky we were. Compared to that, a few days without power etc is nothing.

First: Happy Birthday Michelle!!

Second: The house is boarded up, and we will be evacuating to my parent’s house this afternoon, as soon as we finish packing the essentials. We will have our cell phones with us, of course, if anybody needs to get a hold of us.

Well, the storm track keeps moving south, so we may be alright. We’ll see.

In order to properly distract you, I will show you what I did this past weekend. Michelle’s Sunfire has had a couple of small cosmetic problems for a long time. We think the damage occurred when her car was shipped from Michigan to Houston many years ago. The damage didn’t bother her that much, but it’s been bugging me for a while. So I decided to take it upon myself to fix it (with her blessing, of course).

Here is the before and after picture of the repair to her driver’s side mirror. Notice the cracks in the first picture.

And here is the before and after picture of the replacement of the passenger side rear brake light cover thing.

I also replaced the power antenna on my Trans Am, but the pictures can’t really show the repair, so I didn’t bother taking pictures.

Next up, we need to replace the “Michigan Engineering” decal in the rear window of Michelle’s car. The sun seems to have melted it and it looks bad. Anybody know where we can get a new decal (with the same text)? I can’t find it online.

-Travis