I had a rather nerve-wracking drive home from Sleepy Eye on Saturday. Early in the week I heard some grinding in the rear of my car, for some reason I didn’t bother to even think about what on Earth it could be. I pulled out of Sleepy Eye on Saturday and as I went down [...]
Read more...Back in “the old days,” call waiting was invented and if someone else called, you’d say, “Is it very important? I’m on another call.” The receiver would determine the priority between the two and apologize to the loser in importance and get to the important call.
Now with cell phones, you can be having an actual [...]
On the evening of November 1st I’ll be driving through the night to North Dakota, where as early as possible the following morning I will cast my vote in the 2004 election. Then I will drive the 240 miles back to Sleepy Eye, MN for work at 3PM. Why go to all this trouble to [...]
Read more...I’m usually a pretty good driver. At least I think so. I’ve never caused an accident, although I’ve been in a couple. Oh wait I take that back, I did rear-end that guy on my first date with Lizzie. But hey I was nervous.
So I was driving home from working down in Sleepy Eye late [...]
We made it to October 1st on Friday, and it seems that it wasn’t until immediately on October 1st that the leaves started turning brown and the temperatures cooled significantly. I had to turn the heater on in the car for the first time in a while.
There’s always something about the smell of the heater [...]