I took the truck to the Pajarito Grotto meeting last night; everyone seemed excited for me, though probably more because now I'll stop mooching rides down to Carlsbad with them. Steve, resident car mechanic guru, gave it a once-over and pronounced it a good truck. He said he'd help me learn to do some basic repairs myself as they were needed, as well.

I discovered that I do, in fact, have the super-cab with the little fold-out side seats (that would possibly comfortably seat a toddler), which means that the bank lawyers really underpriced the car. I probably got it for about $1,500 under book value.

Also, I checked out John's decking in his Dakota and got some good ideas for how I want to set up the interior of my camper shell. That's a somewhat-distant project, but I'm bound to start planning far in advance... because that's what I do.

So today there's good news and bad news.

The good news is that apparently I didn't get paid for one of my LANL travels last year and they're reimbursing me for it. I have no idea how I didn't notice that, but I checked my bank records and I never deposited a check for this trip, and I can't find a check stub for it. But I have the paperwork that requests a reimbursement for a trip last August for the exact amount LANL says their delinquent check is for. Since I had forgotten I was owed this money (HOW???), getting the re-cut check will be like free money! Yay!

The bad news is in relation to the new duplex. Apparently the people there still are not done with their house. Er, the contractors building their new house are still not done. The landlord told us last night that a more probable move-in date would be September 1. GAH! That sucks pretty hard.