Here I am! I'm not lost after all. The past few days have been so incredibly busy that I haven't had time to share my experiences with you all.
So to re-cap, we got back from Florida late late Saturday night. I woke up early Sunday and tried to have the guys at Firestone mount my tires. No luck. Olivia's friend's wedding was at 6pm Sunday night. So, that's where I've left off, faithful readers. Here comes the interesting part:
So, we're driving to the wedding on I-64. I look down and the gas light is on and since I hadn't noticed it before, I figured it just came on. So, I move over to the right lane to get off at the next exit. And that's when it happened. Her car started sputtering and died. Yep, we had run out of gas. We pulled off, locked the car and began walking towards the exit to find some gas. We had only walked a little ways before a guy stopped and offered us a ride. It probably helped that both Olivia and I were dressed in nice clothes (for the wedding). So, he gave us a ride to the gas station where we got a gallon of gas in a little gas can. Some people from Pennsylvania were gracious enough to give us a ride back to the interstate. Nice folks. So, we put the gallon of gas in the tank and drove down to the gas station to finish filling the tank up. That was definitely an experience that I hadn't ever been through. Pretty embarassing..but pretty funny, looking back on it now.
Monday: Back to work. Since the dolts at Firestone couldn't mount my 17" tires, I decided to call on Custom Cruisin' and let them put them on their touchless tire-mounting system. I left work a little early (thanks, Glen!) drove home, threw the wheels and tires BACK in the truck, and drove to Custom Cruisin. The guys there were really nice and mounted the tires with absolutely no problems. And..the wheels are still in pristine condition. I made it back to Fireston with just enough time to have the guys there mount them up for me. Nice.
Tuesday: Went to work at 9am(this is normal). At 11:30, someone with enough authority decided that we were going to close the agency at noon (this is not normal). Pretty cool. So, I came home, washed the truck with Mike and then unloaded about 30mb of digital "film" on my freshly-washed beauty. One of those pictures is in the entry below.
Today, we spent with Olivia's parents and went and watched the fireworks at King's Dominion tonight. The fireworks show was pretty amazing, but not as amazing as the smart-ass that tried to escape quickly from the park and wound up driving his Ford Expedition into a ditch and smashing his front bumper. That SUV won't quite go anywhere, now will it? Idiot.
Tomorrow? It's back to work. I've got 90 new computers ready to go out to their new "homes". Tommy and I have our work cut out for us.
