Sunday, October 20, 2019

We got a letter this week from the attorney working on our adoption case, letting us know that it is done! The judge actually signed the order on the 2nd of this month so the adoption is now finalized. We got all the paperwork and the court order included a name change, so now we just need to get a new birth certificate and she will be officially Natalie Knight.....We have a new minivan. New to us, anyway. A nice 2013 Toyota Sienna with about 114,000 miles on it, and hopefully any more to come. I had it checked out at Ab & Tom's on Monday, they found a few things (front tires really worn, worn out bits in the front suspension) which the dealer agreed to fix. The suspension was a bit of a job because it took them a few days. The salvage company came to the house to collect the Chrysler on Thursday but the Toyota wasn't quite ready yet, so we were down to a single vehicle for a day or so. We finished off everything by Friday and took possession, so it is a done deal. Someone is probably going to buy the T&C at auction as-is and do well with it. Although the blowers did quit working this week before they took it away, and the dents did make a pretty loud whistle when up to speed, and the radio quit working too......Alex's VR system is finally up & running. The converter thing we ordered last week got here early this week, and it just did not work. At all. Which left us with an I do not know what we are going to do about this moment. Lucked out a bit though, since the graphics card Alex bought a few months back when he was trying to upgrade out old PC fit into the new computer we just got, and it has the correct input for the headset. It's a better card than what the new PC came with and is compatible, so we swapped it out for the old one and now it works perfectly, and the headset doesn't show an error message for insufficient hardware any more. We may never see him again.....Saturday was the Purdue Boilermaker Half Marathon. Since I have decided to never again run the Veterans' Half in Columbia City, I was looking for an alternative and thought this one would be fun. It was a lovely day, cold but not that much, sunshine, not much wind, but the course was a bit hilly in places. It was a nice course through the town and campus, across the river a couple times, started and ended by the stadium on the Purdue campus. I finished it in 2:07:38, good for 627th overall out of 1186.