Archive for December, 2008
All together now
Here’s to hoping that this new theme with the new shinies that it brings will be more what I want for this website. It puts my twitter, my Google Reader, my delicious, and coming soon a couple other feeds to the side, to bring it all into one place. I’m going to have to work on the background, but I like the rest of it so far.
Today is weird.
So yeah. Copying and pasting from IM is probably the best route to go. It’s one line, written by me:
“so I just went to bathroom, was ready to pull horse out of barn, and realize barn doors aren’t opening. I had put my underwear on backwards this morning and just now noticed.”
Yep.
Story of the year
For those that don’t know me in real life, I’m often told I have some of the most random stories that have ever been found. Last night was no exception.
I’ve been having issues with my car lately. It doesn’t like to start from time to time. Sometimes I can let it set and try again 5, 10 or 20 minutes later, and then it will crank. Last night it decided to be stubborn. I was out at my company Christmas party, and after coming back out to the parking lot, car refused to start for me. Fine, I’ve got plenty of co-workers, they can jump me, as I had just gotten the battery tested, and it was on the verge of failing. Hook up another car, try the jump, and no dice. At this point, I watch all my co-workers leave, and call AAA. Waited an hour out in the car in the cold twiddling my thumbs and finally the tow-truck driver pulls up. Tries one more jump, then onto his rollback to take it to his shop. Get to his shop, he starts to take me home, we stop at a stoplight, and someone walks up to his window on his truck and starts talking to him about trying to get his son a job. This guy came out of nowhere and I almost pissed my pants.
Anyway, more on down the road, we see this car with it’s hazard lights on. The car is sitting to the right side of the southbound lanes, and we get in the left lane to give it a wide berth. As we enter the lane, our headlights focus on a tire sitting in the middle of the lane. So we swerve to miss it, and the tow driver stops to pick it up and make sure the guy is okay. Turns out, the guy his the concrete side of a bridge that we had just passed over and had not only screwed up his front end of his car, but has lost the tire off the front driver wheel, and has sheared the rim off of the axle on the back driver tire. So that was just comical. He’s also an employee of Wendy’s, and was bringing products between the store he worked at and the store in my hometown. So we had to load up boxes of burgers as well as bags of ketchup and pickles, all cram in to the single-cab F-150, and take off back to Benton. I finally get home, it’s 11:15, I’ve been done with the Christmas party for 2 hours and 15 minutes. I crack a beer, check my e-mail, and head to bed.
Today, the car got fixed. New fuel pump, new ignition control system, new battery. $Texas.
FYI
Coming soon, you’ll start to see lots more items come up on here. I’m making it so my google shared items will pop up on here as their own posts. They’ll do it every day about this time. I want to start sharing what I have with people that don’t necessarily have me in their shared friends on Google Reader. If it gets annoying, I’ll remove it.
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