Rants

We drove from Walterboro, SC to Daytona Beach, FL on I-95 this weekend and it seems like 50% of the trip was through road construction. Mostly they were widening it from 2 lanes to 3 on a side, but in some spots it was repairing the damages lanes. Fortunately we never encountered any slow downs because of the goings on. In South Carolina there were the standard construction zone signs and the usual reduced speed limit signs. In Georgia the signs were augmented by baby and kid pictures with captions that read like, “My daddy works here, please slow down so I will see him again.” In Florida the had signs that read “Fines doubled when workers present.” I guess a smart lawyer might be able to get you off if you were speeding when there are no workers present, huh?

Needed air for the left front tire on the rental car. We were in a truck stop/convenience store thing and looked all over for the air. Finally found it behind a parked 18-wheeler. Went around to the other side and when I picked up the hose it was just whooshing away. There was a split in the hose near the chuck. Across the street we went to the next gas-n-go place. They had one on the side that you had to put money in to get air out. It said 50 cents, but after I dropped the first quarter in the compressor kicked on, so I tired to pump up the tire. The pressure coming out of the hose was weaker than if I was exhaling through a straw. The sign said 50 cents, so maybe you had to put both quarters in to make it work right. I put the second quarter in and it didn’t get any better. On to station #3. Their air was also 50 cents. More pressure, but not much more. At least I got the tire pumped up before the time ran out. Of course I have no idea what the tire pressure was because the gage thing attached to the chuck was broke. I just made the side wall look like the one on the other side of the car.

Both my wife and I are tired of being tired all dang day. Our normal bed time has been between 11 and 11:30 and with a 5:30 wake-up call that is not much sleep. So today we decided that the light was going out at 10:30 to give us a little extra shuteye. There goes another hour of time that I can’t use to do stuff. Couple that with the fact that work is busy, things are starting to backlog.

I’m in the middle of doing the 2 monthly newsletters and I don’t have enough time to blog and blog surf like I like. Only 4 more to go of the Aiken Bicycle Club’s newsletter then I’m done. Hopefully I’ll get some time back to waste on the Internet….

Did you see this cool thing that you can add to your links toolbar called NextBlog? It allows you to hit a random recently updated blog, I love it when they make wasting time so time efficient.

We stayed there on Thursday night on the beginning of our long weekend. It looks like it is rapidly approaching the losing of its franchise status and becoming a place where you can rent rooms monthly or by the hour. Judging by the style of the building I would say the place is no more than 15 years old and once looked just like the photos on the Days Inn web site. But perhaps the materials used in construction it is deteriorating fast. Peeling wallpaper. The mattress looks like it has been around for a century. And the furniture may have looked classy when new, but now looks like Flea Market finds. Oh, well, the AC is pumping out nice cold air and the shower is couple of notches above the usual mist level.

Well I went ahead and did it. New links and old links in a different set up. Exciting huh? Taking a couple of nights off from blogging, be back Sunday write it all in. I’ll take my notebook along and write (with pen & paper no less) out any rants I have. If you want to know where I am just take a look at THIS. Probably the only rants I’ll have will be for the stupid slug-like tourist who won’t pull over and let a little sports car by.