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Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Fortunate!
Today my new wheels and tires came. Of course the UPS guy came in the 4 minutes that I was running the blender, and because it was delivery attempt 2 of 3 and I'll have to be at work tomorrow, I had to go pick up said wheels and tires at the UPS depot after delivery hours. So at 8:00 or so, I'm trundling my way to the UPS place out by the airport. On the way I wonder to myself: When is the last time I put gas in ol' Bessie? I'll do it on the way back. I get there on time, pick up the wheels and tires, and head back home. As I'm cruising up Hegenburger, the truck stalls, catches, stalls again. I manage to make a left turn across 3 lanes of traffic with no incident, and a right turn into a well lit shell station with no incident, and I'm able to kick the door open and push the truck to the pumps. Very Very fortunate. It turns out the guy that came along to help push needed gas to get to San Jose. It seemed right and appropriate to give him $10 for his assistance. I filled the tank and fired her up and was on my way, almost like nothing had happened. I count myself blessed that I ran out of gas within rolling distance of a gas station, and that where I ran out of gas wasn't in any of the shady neighborhoods that I had to drive through to get from the UPS depot to my house. All in all quite fortunate. And, of course, baby has new shoes! I'll try to remember to post pictures.
Cheers, Duane
PS. The side tank of the truck holds EXACTLY 15.47 gallons. Good to know. Now if the other two tanks didn't leak....
In addition to spending a fair chunk of time this weekend working, late last night there were network issues with the data center. Unfortunately a script that was supposed to be running for a very import potential customer was supposed to be running during the outage. Last night I slept between 11:30 and 1:00, 2:30 to 5:00, and from 6:30 to 9:00. There are several other reasons that today should suck too, that I won't go into. Why, because I don't want to let today suck. Here are (as dad would put it) today's roses: 8 words. tee-shirt, shorts, mini cooper, windows down, sunroof open. Also over lunch, I watched the first episode of the second season of scrubs, where Colin Hay (of Men at Work) plays Overkill acoustic. It brought quite a smile to my face.
