Not Another Tuesday
March 11, 2008 in Blogs
I was wrapping up last night, with only the Corinthians list still to do, when I was asked whether I would be willing to go for a short ride. The short ride wound up about an hour each direction, and the quick run inside also hit about an hour, so by the time I got home and finished that last bit of work it was about fifteen minutes before time to roust the boys.
This would not have been so bad, but that our oven died over the weekend, and a call to the gas company appliance service promised a technician this morning, so I had to stay up in case he showed early. He did not show that early, and did not stay long before pronouncing: the oven is dead. I thus lost part of my afternoon to finding a replacement, but other than that we drove quite a distance hunting for the used appliance shop only to realize when we got there that we’d been there before some years back (to get a part for a dryer) it went quite well, and tomorrow afternoon someone will be removing our worn device and replacing it with a rather nicely refurbished one. We did have to stop to pick up a few things that will make dinner possible, but by TV Guide standards it is not yet evening as I start my work.
This, too, would not be so bad, but that last week I committed to driving two people to the north country tonight. They must be there; I must drive them. I might get some driving help, but my new stand-in driver has been deathly ill the past couple days and I’m almost surprised that he is coming with me, but that it is his girlfriend who is going home, and another son going to work for the week.
All of this means there is little hope that I might complete my Tuesday workload. I’ll be pleased if I manage to get through today’s Gaming Outpost threads and am still able to post to the Corinthians list. We need to get on the road early this evening, and that does not give me much time.
–M. J. Young