Christmas Break

I figure with all the excitement that happened on Christmas break I should at least say something on here. It all started out fine, we we're going to drive to Texas on the 16th and stop half way in Omaha and be in Texas on the 17th around 8. We're we wrong! We started out and right away I noticed that the car's cruise control wouldn't stay at the speed I set it at. We had a luggage carrier on top so I figured that might be why, and plus we had a head wind. So we pulled over and took it of and the cruise seemed to work. About four hours into it I saw the check engine light start to flash, and I'm no mechanic but I thought that can't be good. But being the man who knows everything I convinced myself that it was just a O2 sensor or something silly. When we stopped to get gas the car was running very rough, but then again I convinced myself, and my wife that it was the air filter, maybe the car wasn't getting enough air. And in my defence when I checked the air filter it was packed full of snow, so of course this was the cause. Ha only if things in my life were that simple! When we got to Omaha, and thank goodness we did, I took the car to orileys and checked the computer. I hooked up the little computer thing and waited, then I saw a heart stopping sentence, cylinders 1 and 3 were misfiring. NOOOOOOOO I thought to myself why me? After buying new spark plugs and spark plug wires and a new distributor cap it still ran just the same, very rough. So the next morning we took it to a mechanic shop and they confirmed what I dreaded, the timing belt broke a tooth and needed to be replaced. But I thought well that sucks but we can work with that. It was going to take one day to fix so that would mean we would get to Texas on the 18th not too bad. Well the next day the mechanic calls me and tells me it's actually a lot worse, they put the new timing belt on and cylinder one still has no compression, which means the valves are brokeen and on top of that it would take about 4 days to fix and more money. So we rented a van and drove to Texas and picked the car up on our way back to Grand Forks. The only question was how are we going to get to Omaha? That was easily solved, we took my old Civic back up so now we have the CRV and the Civic. School started yesterday and wasn't really that bad. I'm taking five classes all in a row. I have them from 9 to 1 Monday Wednesday Friday. So I have some time after and on Tuesday and Thursday to study. I will admit it is quite draining having that many classes in a row, when I got home I was really beat. All in all I think it will be a good semester.