Still here.
Really.
I suppose if I have to change my plans, it's best to do it for my own reasons.
I delayed leaving for the trip to Thursday morning instead of 1 p.m. Wednesday. Several reasons:
(1) Today is supposed to be a rainy day and night, and I enjoy watching thunderstorms. I don't much enjoy driving through them, though. I enjoy storms as they come during the night. The lightning and thunder and all that good stuff. We've had very few storms (and not that much rain) this summer.
(2) There's a very good baseball game on tonight with an exciting young pitcher, and this will be my first chance to see him.
(3) It's also the trade deadline for baseball, and it could be an active night on the transaction wire.
(4) If I left at 1 p.m., I'd get to the Soo after 7 p.m. (losing an hour to the time change), and I wasn't sure I could do all the things I wanted to without staying there two nights.
So I told my wife this morning that I'm going to stay here tonight and hit the road tomorrow morning. What happens next?
(A) The storms that seemed poised to totally drench the area (predictably) fizzled out before they got here. We had some rain, but not too much.
(B) I called the collision center this morning, and they must have forgotten they were going to get me my car today. They said late today--tomorrow morning would be better. I said tomorrow morning would not be better because I'm hitting the road at 6 a.m. They asked about my loaner. I told them it's a big old van. I am not going to drive to the Soo in a gas guzzler that doesn't event have a cassette player, much less a CD player or satellite radio, as the Mazda does. So we'll see if I can get my wheels back late today.
At any rate, I'm at work all day today, finishing up things more thoroughly than I would of had I hit the road after lunch. Ideally, we'll get that new grill working in time for supper tonight. I love grilled brats, and that would be a great meal for tonight. And it would pull some good out of a anticlimactic day.
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