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We got to A/C around 9 at night. Unfortunately I had lefy my phone’s home charger at home and left the car charger in my car so my phone was about to die. We tried to foward my number to another number and screwed something up. Now my phone was stuck pointing to an invalid number, and we didn’t know how to turn off the fowarding. That, plus the fact that it was dying, I just gave up and put the phone in my bag. We’re lucky that everyone was able to find me! Some people almost didn’t!

We all finally did meet up and headed to the Hard Rock Cafe… After offending a neighboring table (with kids) and enjoying a good meal, we headed to the casino to play some games then headed to bed!

The trip up there was great. We made good time. About 15 mins from AC
we decided to stop in the rest stop, fuel up and stretch (We thought we
actually had like an hour to go). We pulled out from the stop and heard
a clunk. I thought it was just a rock or somethin’ on the road, but
aparently it was a piece of my car! The power steering went out and the
car stalled. I restarted it, but the car was overheating. We pulled
over and let the car cool down, but as soon as we took off it heated
right up. I didn’t have more than a few seconds before it was
overheating again.

Vince and Josh in front of my overheating car
What am I going to do now?

We got the car to a Sonoco station and found the accessory bely had
fallen completely off. That explained why I had no power steering and
why the car was overheating! We called for a tow-truck which
conveniently took 2 hours to get there. Even worse, Sunoco ran out of
hot-chocolate!!!

It all stared with me heading out to get Tires for the trip. I went to the local Tire distributor and after 2 phone calls over 2 days confirming they had my tires in stock, told me it would take about 4 hours to complete. I was running an hour late and wanted to be on my way to AC at this point. I wound up leaving there and calling House of Tires in Levittown, NY. They had me in and out in under an hour and replaced both tires. They also have a good reputation in the area, so I may use them as a mechanic. In fact, one of the guys who used to work for my mechanic is there now. I left there, hit the car wash which was right next door, and took off..On to JaypoCON 2005!

Just got back from Atlantic City. It was my annual birthday cellebration (Damn, I’m 28 now…lol) and it was a LOT of fun (as usual!). Many of my good friends were there. It was a blast despite some of the downfalls of the trip….

I’ll tell you more when i’m not so fucking tired, but to give you a preview, I’m down about $300, I nearly lost the car, and there’s wonderful new Vince Stories. All this to come. Check My LJ over the next few days!

Thanks all who came (or whatever your reaction was!)