Let me go back to the beginning of the week, since I have been a bad River and not posted anything. There's a reason for that, dear readers - and the reason is that this has pretty much been the week from HELL.
Sunday morning early, finishing work, and on my way home, happily singing to the radio and smoking a cig, when something weird happens with the car. It just stops accelerating. Completely. I manage to get it off to the side of the road, and do the only thing I know to do, which is to call my son-in-law, who has some mechanic skillz. In the meantime, we realize that we can start the car, but unless you're giving it a goodly amount of gas, it shuts right back off again. Son-in-law arrives, checks things out, crawls around under the car, and then delivers the dreaded diagnosis - transmission. They manage to get the beast home (because we were only about 2 blocks away when it happened) and offer us their car for work Sunday night. We were really blessed by that, and it helped tons.
Monday comes, and I call the place where we are buying the car from. We only had about $1000.00 left to pay on it before it was all ours. After some chit-chat, and some return phone calls, we go up there about 1pm (after 3 hours of sleep) and trade the Pacifica in on a pretty Jeep Liberty Limited. Its white with wood panel trim (Wagoneer) and has some pretty nifty bells and whistles. One of my favorites so far, since its winter and cold, are the heated seats. My ass loves those heated seats, let me tell you. And, unlike the Pacifica, when a tire has low pressure, the Jeep actually tells you WHICH tire it is, instead of making you get the gauge and play check every tire to see what one is low. The only thing that sucks is that one of the speakers in the front is blown, and it buzzes loudly. This may seem like a little thing, and it really is, but I have what is called "pitch-perfect hearing". What that means is that, if anything is the slightest bit off, I hear it, and its like nails on a chalk board to me. Needless to say, we haven't been listening to a lot of music, and when we do, its all coming from the left side of the Jeep, which leaves me feeling slightly off-balance.
Wednesday and Thursday passed with no great issues, I am pleased to report. Other than, you know, that monthly female thing hitting, but nothing can be done about that other than ibuprofen and Midol, heh. Oh, and a heating pad. Its still in a box, someplace. Fat lot of good that does me!
Then came Friday night. The temperature had dropped again, and it was drizzling and misting. And as soon as it was hitting anything, the drizzle and mist was FREEZING. There was ice over everything. My porch should have been declared a danger zone. Loki, my little dog, ran out to do his business, and launched right off of the end of the porch. The streets were horrible. I can honestly say, that I have driven in all kinds of weather. Blizzard, regular snow, rain, tornado, hurricane, etc... and last night was the first time that I was honestly scared to be out driving. I was crawling along, doing 5-10mph, and sliding all over the main roads. In a JEEP. We managed to get most of my route done, except for a couple of places that had pretty steep hills, and then came home to wait until the sun came up, to do the other route. Even after the sun came up, we still had issues. I almost took out a brick mailbox, and some jackass parked his car facing the wrong way on the street, directly across from another car ... and that was crazy to maneuver between. Oh yeah, said jackass was standing outside watching the whole affair, too. Again, there were a few areas we couldn't get to, so we came back home, and then went out to finish up again at 4pm. Easy-peasy at that point. I can guarantee though, that there will have been complaints from people who didn't get their paper, or got it late, etc. I would imagine, mostly from the richy-rich neighborhood here. And I just have to sit and stare blankly, and think to myself -- at what point does a newspaper that costs $1 at the store become more important than a person's life? At what point is it ever okay to look out your front door, and see everything coated in shiny ice, and then call to complain that you have not gotten your paper by 7am? This is why I am not in customer service. I would say to these people - "Well, the next time we have ice like this, we will drop some papers for you to deliver, and then perhaps you will better understand."
Today ...Saturday, I am just tired. BUT!! Naked Night is coming up at Exile at 8pm SLT, and I already have an awesome playlist set up for it!!
Speaking of Exile - just WOW. We have had such a good week!! Traffic just keeps getting better and better - we almost broke 7000 last night, which is great! Membership in the VIP group grows every day, and more and more people are finding us and coming to the events. Our staff is so amazing - they all work together and cover when needed, and come to support eachother at the events. We promoted Florisa to host manager, and she is really taking the reigns and digging right in with some fantastic ideas! There has not been a single day this week that Exile has had less than 2 persons in the SHX Top 40 - and most days, there have been 3. There are awesome things afoot at Exile - great new ideas for events, and loads of things in the works. Here's to hoping we see you there!
More later!!
Peace and Love,
~R
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