Alarm problems and upcoming layovers

Well I'm just at the end of my 3 days off and I'm proud to report that I've done sweet fudge all! Haha... every once and a while ya just need to relax and do nothing, and I did one heck of a good job at it.

I've been having some problems lately with my paging alarm system for my WRX. I've had it since I got the car back in April 2003 and in the past couple of months it has started to act pretty quirky. The most annoying of which is it doesn't always work properly when locking/arming and unlocking/disarming. I will go to lock the car and arm the alarm and it will only arm the alarm, but the car remains unlocked. And sometimes I'll go to unlock the car and it will disarm the alarm and lock the car! Quite frustrating! So I managed to track down the guy who did the install and he's always been exceptional with customer service and his work is amazing. He informed me that the alarm brain is malfunctioning and happens with about 1% of the units (lucky me). So thankfully it's still under warranty and he is mailing me out a new unit which I will have to have professionally installed and reprogrammed by a dealer out here, they have referred me to a shop nearby that will do it for about 50 bucks in labor costs. Had I still been in the lowermainland they would have done everything for free, but c'est la vie. I'm quite willing to pay the cash to get this thing resolved. So as soon as it gets here am having that all done.

Tomorrow I'm off to Winnipeg and back, just a quick trip unlike the last time I was in Winnipeg over New Years for 5 days! A Kelowna layover is up and coming as well as another week long layover in another warm destination! I've got a trip coming up at the end of November to Marco Island in Florida (Lower west coast of Florida just south of Naples). That should be interesting if it stays. Time will tell.

Well that's the latest, back to continue my last day of nothingness!