Beth's colonoscopy was Monday, and she's glad to be done with it. The prep she had to do for it was pretty, uh, arduous. I had to be with her at the hospital to be able to drive her home, so I got to see the results as well. Her colon looks fine, one little polyp biopsied, but otherwise healthy. So that's good..... The church kids program had a skating night on Tuesday that Alex and I went to. The big happening there was that Alex won 200 tickets on the Deal or No Deal machine; we found out that 200 tickets buys not much more that a couple of Laffy Taffy and some Tootsie Rolls..... The van went to Ab & Tom's on Thursday, we finally couldn't deal with the noises any longer. It's been making a roaring/vibrating noise at around 1100 rpm (not below, or above) for a while now, getting worse. But also much worse lately is a creaking and clicking noise from the front end when turning. So I finally took it in, and they had no problem identifying all the noises. None of the  "It's not doing it when the mechanic is there" kinda stuff here. So the engine mount on the right side is bad, there's a rattling heat shield, and the right front axle is bad. They couldn't get all the parts by COB on Friday, so the van is still there and they will work on it next week too.... The ladies and I went to Fort Wayne of Saturday to visit Jefferson Pointe Mall. Mostly, I needed to go to the Xfinity store to return the old cable boxes I still had even though we cancelled cable TV a few months ago. I'm still paying rent on those boxes because they want them back, even though nobody told me that that I recall. While I was there, they even gave me a better deal on the cable internet service, and a free "flex box" which I guess plays whatever the Xfinity streaming service is, including Peacock, for free since I'm still an Xfinity customer. Don't know if I'll actually use it.....