Drive Anybody?
December 13th, 2007
All I can say is this: I have a ton of podcasts and rarely enough time to listen to them all. So this last week has been good. A week ago, Wednesday, I left my home in Mesa, AZ and drove to Salt Lake City, Utah for three days of work. Due to the weather, I only got one day in. Loaded seven trucks with parts of a crane. Then a fifty mile jaunt down the road to do some work on another piece of equipment. Then the drive south to avoid the snow that was threatening. Got home Friday evening. Apparently, driving in the rain is foreign to desert dwellers, because it took me an extra two hours to go about ten miles. Altogether, a half day trip took all day. So, get home friday night, ate dinner with the family during which a computer was delivered to the house. The next day I got the computer fixed (asked the customer to bring me the part and installed it while she waited. Thanks Patty!) Then jumped on a plane bound for Reno, Nevada. Rental car, hotel, dinner and bed. Got up early Sunday, did the job, flew back to Phoenix so I could tear my patient, kind, loving girlfriends computer apart. (Who knows, she may read this) Got it close about 11:00 p.m. Monday night then went to bed for the drive back to Salt Lake the next morning. Drove up, hotel, dinner, early to bed and overslept by almost three hours! Got to work just as the trucks were arriving so no real lost time. did the two day job in one (long) day. Up today at the crack of night; 4:00 a.m. and drove all day to arrive home this afternoon. Thats about 4400 miles in less than ten days. 2800 of it driving. I still didn’t catch up on all the podcasts. Maybe I ought to rethink the amount I download…
Thanks for being part of my journey. You can follow me on Twitter if you are a real glutton for boring punishment.
Merlin
