On Thursday 20 November 2008, Ed Nisley wrote:
>> It is already November for this year.
>
>And you know what? They're going to change the month -again-
>in just a few days. I can't keep up any more!
Hey, I have 25+ years on you, and I manage (most of the time) :)
>This coming Sunday is actually 24 November. Right? <sigh>
According to my calendar. I think I hung a new one last winter sometime...
>I will be home: can't risk going out in this condition.
>
>> And that is a fur piece from Ithaca
>
>A mere 4 hours along the Future I-86. Heck, you could sneak
>out & back before supper and nobody'd notice.
>
>Now, after eight hours on the road, you might be as
>disconnected from reality as I was after returning from
>near Harrisburg PA on Tuesday, through the Pocono Snows.
>Driving always dumbs me right down to room temperature.
That could be dangerous.
>Must. Recalibrate. Caffeine. Delivery. System.
Yes, and of course the pee stops. :)
I have to tell a story here though. Coming home after Christmas at the farm
near Ithaca a coup[le of years ago, on I-68 west of Cumberland, it started
blowing snow in golf ball sized flakes, doing about 30 mph crossways of the
road. My Dee gets nervous in those conditions cuz I'm an old Iowa farm kid
who learned to drive the winter of 1949-50, somewhat legendary for bad
weather and roads. So I just keep on trucking as fast as visibility allows.
Booming down one of those grades someplace around Negro Mountain at about 50
mph, with maybe 100 feet of visibility if the tail lights of the next rig
came on, my wife said:
"You know don't you, that if you ever sell this truck, you are going to have
to explain the cuts in the passenger grab rail are from your wife's
fingernails?"
I busted out with a belly laugh and darned near lost it. :) Told her to never
say something like that again when I was concentrating on my driving.
That 99 GMC 3 door 4wd now has just short of 100k miles on it, runs & looks
like new. Good vehicle. And around 19 mpg, not too shabby for an 8000 pound
vehicle.
--
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru
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