{"id":6379,"date":"2024-07-24T00:04:07","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T18:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/falseducks.com\/theblahg\/?p=6379"},"modified":"2024-07-24T19:01:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T13:01:55","slug":"what-price-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/falseducks.com\/theblahg\/?p=6379","title":{"rendered":"WHAT PRICE HOLIDAYS?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0 I wonder if anyone will get the play on word reference I’ve used for the title of this blahg.\"Scott<\/a>\u00a0 Or will someone fault my grammar and inevitably say the phrase is I was or am on holiday and not I was or am on holidays.\u00a0 Potato, potato, macaroni.\u00a0 That won’t make sense either unless you pronounce the two ways of saying potato.\u00a0 Don’t ask about the macaroni.\u00a0 The title references an old 1932 film title, “What Price Hollywood?”\u00a0 That film was similar to and led to the 1937 remake “A Star Is Born” which in itself resulted in remakes of “A Star Is Born” in 1954 with Judy Garland and James Mason, the 1976 version with Barbara Streisand and Kris Kristofferson, and 2018 with Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper.\u00a0 I haven’t seen the Streisand version but the restored 1954 version with Judy Garland is phenomenal.\u00a0 Don’t settle for less, the restored version is best.\u00a0 If you’re counting there was also a 1951 television version, “Robert Montgomery Presents: A Star Is Born.”\u00a0 I haven’t seen that one either.\u00a0 That’s enough digression for now.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Last week I was on holiday or holidays.\u00a0 Take your pick.\u00a0 \"TFCON<\/a>I always take the same week in July that corresponds with the TFCON TORONTO.\u00a0 To be truthful, the TFCON or Transformers Convention, is held every year in Mississauga at the Hilton Mississauga.\u00a0 There are some events on the Friday evening but we don’t usually attend those.\u00a0 Saturday and Sunday are the big days with a huge dealer room and panel sessions with guests.\u00a0 Before I get into all of that, I have to back up the week before when I was anticipating my holiday.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 My wife and I decided it was time to upgrade and trade in our 2008 Hyundai Santa Fe.\u00a0 It had well over 300,000 kilometres and sometimes when it broke down, the cost of repairs was getting to be to much.\u00a0 The garage we deal with in Demorestville, Village Auto, has sold us our last number of vehicles and they do repairs on site so when we saw a couple of Toyota Rav 4s in the lot, we decided to spring on one.\u00a0 We finally took possession of a 2017 version last Tuesday.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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I drove the vehicle most of last week and didn’t notice any issues.\u00a0 I was just happy that the air conditioning and key fob unlock were working.\u00a0 My Santa Fe had lost function on those two features.\u00a0 As I said, I didn’t notice any issues while driving it to and from work.\u00a0 On the drive to Mississauga on Friday July 12th, with our destination being the Hilton Mississauga, we noticed loud and continuous clunking coming from the rear.\u00a0 We stopped at a rest stop and looked down underneath but couldn’t find the issue.\u00a0 We decided to continue on.\u00a0 Later at the Hotel, after Jeanette, Abbie, Emily, and I had a lovely dinner, we looked down underneath where the jack and spare tire are kept.\u00a0 We noticed the jack was loose and a luggage shield bar seemed to make an odd noise when we shook it.\u00a0 We took these items out and put them in the back seat of the car.\u00a0 That eliminated the continuous clunking noise.\u00a0 With that noise eliminated however, we began to hear a scraping\/grinding in the rear driver side wheel.\u00a0 We suspected it to be a brake issue.\u00a0 The short version of this is that we drove home safely on the Sunday and the car was looked at and repaired on the Tuesday.\u00a0 Apparently a bolt in the caliper (brake related) was loose and causing the grinding and when we went over a bump the caliper would sometimes clunk.\u00a0 All resolved however by the guys at Village Auto to our satisfaction.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Now back to the TFCON.\u00a0 I tend to digress quite a bit.\u00a0 Abbie and I did a count on how many times we’ve attended TFCON.\u00a0 We both recalled that our first year was 2016 because the great voice talent Frank Welker was there but we didn’t get to see him.\u00a0 We had just driven up for the day and we didn’t get to see Welker’s panel.\u00a0 Luckily, in case you are interested, his panel from that year can be viewed on YouTube:\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n