In the morning, 725 days.

725 days to go. Wow, the more and more I think about it the less amount of time I feel I have to complete this project. It's as though my days are spent reading and talking with everyone I can about money. That is not to offend or pry on their financial situation, but to open their mind to the conversation of about wealth as it refers to them. For instance last night I was reading in an old business thought text book of mine. There was a passage that mentioned, note, it's from Dale Carnegie, it mentioned that we are fortunate for even the lowly peasants today can afford many luxuries that weren't available to the riches kings some generations ago. So I got to thinking of all the wonderful things we enjoy today that we take for granite. It by far exceeds what most people 200 years ago would have ever asked for.

Today I started off really early, read some business thought which was very abstract and difficult to understand. Faust. It's like it sends you into an oblivion of thought and it's as if you feel dumb and smart at the same time. My current situation tells me I need to clean house before heading off to San Diego. It will be a wonderful experience and I look forward to the travel. I'm in need of a vacation and I think this will afford me that luxury. Though I will continue blogging as not lose progress on this mind expanding venture.

Yesterday I had some car troubles. Opposition as the bishop at church called it during our half hour meeting. In all there is great things. For this instance I share with you my experience and tell you to think before you act. In other words. My car was revving up to high speeds and then shifting. For a moment, no for a long time, I thought my transmission was having a problem. Not so good on a 1997 bmw 528i. The story about how I recently purchased this car will come at a later time. So I thought to myself, ok, needs more Lucas treatment, that worked for the hard slipping before. But that didn't work this time, it had to be something else. I drove to Auto zone but something told me to save the drive and stop in at Checker. I did and there was this large group of men standing around the transmission fluids and oils. You know the area will all the lubes that fix your engine, stop leaks and such. So I asked if they knew of anything that would help. The one guy said that Ford had this friction modifier that would help. I thanked him and went to the dealership. After asking me they brought out this little bottle which they told me, as did the guy at Checker, don't get this on your hands it will smell forever. It's super concentrated you see. That makes it work I guess. So I thanked them and headed for the checkout, then turned back and said, I just dump this in my automatic transmission fluid right. The guy quickly replied with a big, NO, it goes in your rear differential. Wow, that was a relief, my five dollar fix was about to turn into a five thousand dollar one. Though, I asked questions and didn't assume. The other thing that came to mind this morning was if I only read the instructions as well. Thus I've decided from here on out I'm going to become a stickler about following instructions when it comes to my car.

I checked out, around five dollars and headed for Jiffy Lube. I have friends from church that work there and I knew they could put it in for me. I gave them the bottle and they put it in for me. Driving home. Didn't work. Oh, man I thought. I then let my car sit for a while. It now drives better than ever and seems to be working just fine. Thank goodness for the guys at Checker.