Thursday, July 07, 2005

What a long day...

Well, today started out on the road... And a lot of road at that! We got the wild idea to head down to the Meade factory to have them look at Denise's telescope. We actually called Meade and spoke to their customer support folks and the person on the other end of the phone, special note always get their NAME, said “come on down! We’ll check it out, show you how to use it, and if it is broke you can check it in to be fixed” So with that we jumped into the car and started the long journey down to the Meade factory in Irvine California. Okay, first thing is Irvine is a long freaking way away! And, if you don’t know this, the 405 isn’t really a freeway, but a multi-lane parking lot!

So, we finally made it down to Irvine and locate the Meade factory. A pretty neat building with an observatory on the top of it and a lot of really nice cars in the parking lot and not a lot of parking. When we finally got in they said, we don’t do walk-ins and WHO told you to just come on down? Anyway, the nice lady who helped us did give Denise some pointers on using her telescope and then said we should just have it serviced to make sure everything was working correctly. The entire experience wasn’t very pleasant and nothing near what either of us had expected to happen. As a result I was very disappointed and not really in a great mood after finishing there.


But, continue on with the journey we did! Our next stop was to the only southern California WoodCrafts stop that was about 30 minutes away from Meade. I can happily report that our experience at WoodCrafts was MUCH better than our Meade experience and it truly salvaged the day! We did end up buying a couple of things there; zero insert throat plates, scrapers, DVD how-to, and a dust adapter for our saw. We spent about a hour there and he folks there were VERY helpful and friendly. It was really a great experience and neat to be there.

From there we started heading north and decided to find a Claim Jumpers for dinner. That wasn’t too bad, especially considering we were now driving in LA at 5PM traffic. Fortunately the traffic wasn’t too bad, but we did decided to take surface streets to the one Claim Jumpers we knew near the Northridge Mall.

We had a great, and expensive, dinner there and neither of us could finish everything that we got. The food was great and the service was great too!

We decided from there to just head home and take a break for a day. We have been driving all over the place and need to just calm down a bit! So who knows what we will actually decide to do tomorrow!

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