Tuesday

RAIN - but only at work.  It rained so hard, the street and parking lot in front of our building was flooded, and I do mean FLOODED, in less than 5 minutes.  It filled up water retention basins in record time.  Then it started hailing. THEN - the power went out.  So, it's time for me to go home anyway.  Street lights out at one intersection wtih cops directing traffic. 

Next intersection?  Flashing red lights for both directions.  Now, according to the law, how are flashing red lights supposed to be treated?  If you said the same as a stop sign, ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding!!  How do you think the drivers of vehicles going the opposite direction were treating it?  As a full-blown green light.  I came up to the intersection and they weren't even slowing down, they were blowing the light and there was a LOT of traffic doing it.  Drivers going the direction I was going weren't doing ANYTHING - they would have had to wait a LONG time because the flow of traffic was endless.

What, do you suppose, I did?  Well, honey, I ain't sitting there all day long, these people breaking the law weren't going to stop me.  I started inching out into traffic which is when the cars finally - slammed  - on their brakes.  Yup, they were honking at me.  Notwithstanding the fact that THEY were the ones breaking the law, I got the finger and several blaring horns.  THIS is why there are such horrific car accidents every single day, all over the nation.  People simply do not have a CLUE about how to drive. 

I have known that for a long, long time and statistics agree with me.  A study came out a while back that showed that a majorty of drivers don't know basic, simple traffic laws that you (I hope) and I learned as teenagers.  The cars stopped and I drove right in front of them.  They totally thought I was in the wrong.  Absolute craziness.  THIS is why I advocate MUCH harder written tests to get a driver's license.  The questions are too easy and even then, they give far too much leniency to be able to pass the test - 70% or greater. It should be at least 90% or greater and all drivers should have to retake the test every time they have to renew their license.

My "bravery" got everyone else moving as well.  I didn't look back to see if ANYONE was going to start treating that intersection as if it had a stop sign, I figured they would NOT.

I took the old Buick in today to have it diagnosed.  I mean, I called the shop yesterday and they told me to bring it in this morning.  Well, they hadn't even gotten to it by 1:45 pm.  That shop is 3 buildings down from our building and when I got there, their power was out, too.  So, I just took it and said I would bring it back tomorrow.  I did not appreciate them telling me, however, that they would get it done in the morning - this morning - and then not even get started on it.  I did not say anything, though, I just let it go.  No big deal to bring it back tomorrow and try again. 

Nothing much new going on here excepting the weather: AWESOME!! It was cool this morning and it stay fairly nice throughout the day.  When the rain hit, the temps dropped 10 degrees anyway.  Totally cool!

I'm outta here.  I have several things I need to get done outside and some other stuff to do on the net.

C'ya.

ben

Monday

Monday


I called the 2 numbers on the previous post again this morning. One rang endlessly, the other came back with a message: The cricket customer you are trying to reach.......

Cellphone. I was hoping to score a reverse looking up that might at least show the person's name without having to pay for it, haven't found one yet. I was willing to pay $2.00 for the cheapest I found, but it automatically signs you up for are recurring, $24.95 per month fee to join. No thanks.

Haven't given up - in fact, that Cricket customer is going to get a lot of phone calls from me.......

Uhh, well anyway, I drove the old Buick to work today. There is a repair facility 200 feet down the road that I have used before - reasonable rates and good service - I am going to have the car diagnosed as to what caused it to fail emissions. One can always hope it's not going to be something extremely expensive.

I was amused to read a news article about "Obama's health care not up to par". One statement was that premiums are too expensive. Lol. Did anyone think this was going to be free? I am always gladdened by the recurring them of repealing this health care bill.

Another news article of interest is the one about the State of Georgia wanting to put advertisements on their roadside help trucks. Like the state of Arizona, they're broke. I'll tell you right now, they could plaster advertisements all over government vehicles and it wouldn't bother me one bit. I would take that over higher taxes ANY day.

I was going to check on the new fish this morning, but it's too dark out there to see anything. I either must get rid of 10 or more of them or fire up another pond. I don't really want to start up another pond right now, getting rid of the fish is a better alternative. The turtle - is out again, lol.

Umm, work day approaches, though, there is absolutely nothing, again, in the truck routing system to do. Uhhh, this is starting to get old, very very old.

G'day.

ben