Let's see.  Tuesday the 24th of July.  A holiday here in Utah.  But not a holiday for the country.  So Utah things are closed, but some Federal things (like the post office) is not closed.  And because lots of things are not closed almost all service businesses are opened too.  In a way I'm starting to like it more because it gives me the best of both worlds.  I get to take off of work, yet I still get mail and particularly today the shop was opened to get the car fixed and the car rental place was opened to get a car while the car was being fixed.  That brought good news and bad news.  Good news was that the car got fixed in just a few hours (we were expecting major damage automovitely speaking as well as what it would cost.)  ( we were touched lightly on both counts.  Bad news was that after turning back the car after only a few  hours and 33 miles it still cost us the full days rental.   Boo!   So to compensate I took Shelia to the Texas Roadhouse for dinner(late lunch).  And there I had was of my best steak experiences ever.  I told Sheila that it was a time when the taste that I had in my mind before and what I got there was exactly spot on.  I don't remember that ever happening before.  After that It was holiday  just hang out at home time for the rest of this holiday.  Could the day have been better?  Probably. Will I settle for it as it was?  Definitely.  And as the fireworks have started going off in the neighborhood I am ready to end a day that has been actually quite refreshing and as long as it would have happened not matter how we did it it is good that it happened the way that it did.