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Jul. 5th, 2014 03:04 am
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One thousand five hundred sixteen miles driven in the space of (checks clock) forty-two hours.

Random thoughts:
My son is an awesome travel companion. He gets bonus points for helping navigate through weird highway configurations during a monsoon.

I swear the highway in western Pennsylvania is designed to kill you or make you turn around in terror.

If you have to pee after you drop off someone at JFK International, you're screwed. Ditto if you believed the online map's assertion that there is a gas station right there. Actually, the gas station is still there. It simply isn't operating.

OH YE GODS ROAD CONSTRUCTION

One favorite sign: CAUTION: NEW TRAFFIC PATTERNS. I was hoping for something more interesting than lane-shifts. Maybe a eighteen-wheeler tango.

Two favorite sign: BORO OF ALPHA. I suppose there must be BORO OF OMEGA on the West Coast.

Three favorite sign: LLAMAS FOR SALE. The billboard was huge. But there was also a cloth "For Rent" sign hanging on it. So which is, Llama Keeper? Are selling them, or renting them? If the latter, for what does one rent a llama? (Say it five times fast!)

If you think your windshield is clean, driving into the sunset will swiftly prove otherwise.

Little Gambit is a pretty good travel buddy, too, even though we made him do horrible things like climb stairs at a strange hotel and drink water while strangers were walking by. Worst of all, Ty wasn't there to demonstrate how anything should be done.

The saddest part of the whole trip was Gambit staring at the door Dev disappeared through, then whining as I drove away.

And I'd like to lodge a complaint. It simply isn't fair that my son's plane touched down in Pisa before I made it home to Indiana.

And now... *thud*
blairmacg: (FeatherFlow)
The end is...  No one got hurt and damage to the car was much less than it could have been.

Dad and I were heading up the highway in Dev's low-slung Z-car. (Why Dev's? Because mine must go back to the shop. Don't ask.) A huge strip of tire rolled out from under the semi in front of us. No time or place to swerve. Dad kept us from spinning as the tire rumbled beneath the car and was finally spit out the back.

Mind you, we were moving with traffic at around 70 mph, in a car with extremely low clearance. Dad's amateur racing days paid off.

White smoke starting blowing out from under the car. Now, no smoke is good, but white is generally better than black, and the smell was distinctly radiator fluid. Indeed, we lucked out. The underpan, intended to protect the underside of the car from impacts, gave its life to perform its job with distinction. The impact also yanked a hose completely off the radiator -- source of smoke -- with the clamp still attached.

It's fixed now. I have no idea how we came through that without greater damage at the least and hitting another car at the worst.

Dad missed his flight, but even that ended up working out better. The weather that kept his Cessna grounded over the weekend breaks tonight. Since he had no choice but stay an extra day (and all our schedules are fucked because of it anyway), he will likely fly the Cessna home tomorrow rather than take a commercial flight.








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Why, yes, I did lose two days of my life to clients, karate training, and a dog show. I could stress out about falling behind, or I could simply go forward. I'm in a go-forward sort of mood.

So. A few of my pet peeves—those petty day-to-day things that I just can't help but complain about even though I know my complaining is completely unproductive.

Read more... )

Little things, all of them, but that's what peeves are. The really big issues--bullying, child raising, health care and so forth--fall into a category far beyond what "peeve" could encompass.

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