A blue cast to the day...

I'd been kind of avoiding the subject of Galina returning to Houston, but today, she left.

Drew came by a bit later in the day and we took off the top of the Civic's engine to take a look at the gasket. I was surprised at how easy it was: four nuts and presto! The gasket looked good, but the seals around the spark plugs were in pretty bad shape, so we replaced them and put the engine back together.

After moping around for another couple of hours, I realized there was little in the house to eat, and that there was no place in town one could buy automotive parts today, so I drove over to Durango to shop and to take a look at how the Civic is performing.

Everything went swimmingly; I even had a chance to eat at the Mongolian BBQ place.

My mood is still cranky.

Cheers...

A favor of my Russian-speaking LJ friends...

I'd like to ask a favor of Ljers on my friends list whose native language is Russian:

Dorogie druzya, ya vas proshu ostavit' kommentarii o tekh saitakh na Runete (ot 3 do 6) kotorye vy shchitaete camye vazhnye c tochki zrenie informatsii, ssilki, i razvlechenii.

Dear friends, please leave your comments about which sites on the Runet (between 3 and 6) you consider to be most important information, reference, and entertainment sites.

Also, a question: I know there are a lot of Russian-speaking participants on LJ, which is considered in some circles a "blogging" site. Are there Russian blogs out there that are as well-known in Russia as, say, Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit) and Andrew Sullivan are in the U.S.?

Zaraniye spasibo.

Cheers...