i have neglected you all and for that i apologize! today is st. party's day (yes i've renamed it, deal with it) and i am excited! i don't particularly like st. patrick's day, but for some reason i am super pumped about it this year...
yesterday consisted of me being in the truck or my car for most of the day. not exactly one of the more exciting days i have had in a while. keisha (the veggie truck) had to go for a heart transplant yesterday. it was a sad day in our lives to realize that she was going to need a new engine. she is in good hands with the folks at powerstroke specialty (coincidentally enough he is from memphis...go figure) and we cannot wait for her to come back.
i had to drive her out there and it felt a little bit like a viking funeral. driving her out there like everything is okay, and then wham see ya. the night before her goodbye, darwin texted me and told me he wanted to leave for powerstroke by about 8 or 815. i replied with a sure sure whatever....so i'm driving to work, i am about a block away, and darwin calls me. "hey, where are you?"...a block away..."oh, alright well can you get keisha and meet me at the gas station around the corner, george (the other truck...darwin calls it dolly now...) needs gas."...yea.... so i stroll up to work and unlock the gate, open the roll-off, gather the belongings that keisha will need while away undergoing her transplant, make a lot of noise starting keisha, back keisha out, re-lock everything and away we go. there is a group of guys walking by as this whole transaction is going down looking at me like i am crazy. whatever, i love that truck, and honestly who is going to say anything to me when i am in that monster? i did get to hurl a dip cup (athankyou darwin) out the window....away we go to meet darwin and georgedolly. darwin proceeds to inform me that he is going to follow me because he will know if something goes wrong with keisha before i do...gee this sounds like fun...off we march up 85-N and we are almost to the 985 interchange when darwin calls me and tells me his back teeth are floating he has to pee so bad...asks me if i remember how to get there, he will just meet me....not 20 minutes ago he told me he wanted to follow me incase something went wrong with keisha...not untypical i will say. i proceed on, roll on up to powerstroke and the guy says hey, oh darwin must be coming behind you...yep you guessed right...well on second thought, i figured i could just chill with you guys...really? this job is going to take a week at the very least....geez.
long story short, keisha is in the hospital and now we are searching for a new vehicle...darwin sold the rover (cassandra) and he has been tootling around in georgedolly and i don't know if any of you have noticed, but diesel ain't cheap...like $4.00 a gallon cheap...and steadily rising. so we've been looking into natural gas powered vehicles and honda makes a civic gx that is powered by natural gas. the kicker is they don't sell them in georgia yet apparently because there are no stations readily available with natural gas (even though there is one around the corner from us, ahem...ahem). currently we are in a bitter struggle with honda to make this happen because georgia natural gas company is giving one away through a honda dealership...now is that just ludicrous? silly honda, let's all get on the same page please...it's that or darwin buys a jeep and converts it to propane...do we really need any more toys around here? short answer no, long answer of course we do...who doesn't love toys? ha.
sunday is my half marathon...i may die or still be drunk from st. party's day festivities...i'll keep you posted.
ciao.
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