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We received our van back today. I had to take it in yesterday morning for them to figure out what the deal is.

As I was driving it the gas odometer just dropped to E with the gas light coming on. I thought, oh crap, someone siphored our gas. Yeah, I am pretty pessimistic at times.
Anyway, I put around 20 bucks in it (when it was less than 3 freaking dollars) and headed back on the road. It went up to nearly half a tank and then dropped down again. OK. Somethings up. I had called Firestone and they really didnt want to touch it, after hearing my scenario. I was forced to take it to a FORD dealership (no jokes please, it was a good deal at the time). I really didnt want to, because my wife and I had a bad experience with another FORD dealership before.

However, it took them nearly 2 days, but they found the culprit. It ended up being two ground wires, one in the front and one in the back, that needed cleaned and re-grounded. Odd yes, but, less expensive than I had feared. Personally, I would not have ever found it. I suck at cars anyway. We also had the wipers, oil, and gas filter changed. Might as well have it all overhauled. So far so good. No issues on the way home.

Our son has had allergies since school started back. He was out part of a day this week with a temp and coughing like crazy. Kel mentioned the crappy looking vents in the classroom. I checked them out and sure enough they looked pretty bad. I mentioned it to the assistant principle, as a parent. Later the same day, I dropped my reciepts (from the Oklahoma City trip) off. The Super asked me to come in and wanted to know if everything was OK. So it opened an allowable time to mention the filters and vents. This was yesterday. I find out today, that one maintence guy went in and changed all the filters and cleaned the vents out throughout the elementary school. Unreal. They said he was sweating like a pig and filthy as all get out. On top of it all, it seems to be common knowledge we had requested it to be done. I couldn't believe it. It saddens me to think they did this because I happen to request it being done, as opposed to it actually required to be done for the benefit of all.

Since Kel and I also seem to be coming down with allergies, Kel went out and bought some air filters. Personally, I never have messed with any. However, these seem to be easy enough. You just pull them from the box and plug them in. That's what I like, keep it simple. So by morning, I would hope every allergin would be pretty much squashed.

I finally get to go to bed tonight. I watched a movie called Sahara and it was actually pretty good. I been called twice tonight for on-call, hence , I can just now get to bed. It is after midnight local time.