Thursday, July 22, 2004
Late tonight
But I feel obligated to post. Comments would be welcome if anyone is reading this drivel.
When I got home from work the girls still weren't home from the movies. Sue and I had the house to ourselves. I got ideas and took decisive action. 30 seconds later the phone rang. "Come pick us up, Dad!" Sometimes it pays to be decisive.
Price of alternator replacement -- $174. OW.
Went to dinner in Eminence. First time we'd been through since the storm/tornado(?) a month ago. Lots of trees down, some building damage that we could see. We wanted to go to the Chinese restaurant, but they didn't take cards and we didn't have much cash. We ended up going to the worst KFC in the world instead.
Sue is pretty much an expert on KFC operations as a result of her QSC job (damn near 20 years ago, yikes), but we didn't need her expertise to know that this servise was just downright pathetic. Food was OK, though. Also, it's now a KFC/TacoBell. Weird.
Left the KFC and notice a big plume of smoke across town. Driving down 55 we could tell it was close. Just before we got to the cemetary and had to turn we found the fire. A big outbuilding behind a house -- a garage, big shed, carriage house, etc. -- was fully FULLY engulfed in flames. The FD was there with one hose ineffectually trained on the blaze. This thing looked like it was going to be fully consumed and ashes in about 15 minutes. Weird. Despite working for the State Fire Marshal's Office, this is the first fully active fire scene I can recall attending.
Roofter attacked Lucy today. She, of course, reacted like Delta Burke, full of screams at the time and scoldings for me afterwards.. She has a two inch barely visible scratch on her shin. Roofter is pretty much a shithead, but you just have to let him know who is the boss. I put a size twelve upside his wattles the first time he came after me and we came to an understanding about who weighed 250 pounds and who weighed 1% of that.
When I got home from work the girls still weren't home from the movies. Sue and I had the house to ourselves. I got ideas and took decisive action. 30 seconds later the phone rang. "Come pick us up, Dad!" Sometimes it pays to be decisive.
Price of alternator replacement -- $174. OW.
Went to dinner in Eminence. First time we'd been through since the storm/tornado(?) a month ago. Lots of trees down, some building damage that we could see. We wanted to go to the Chinese restaurant, but they didn't take cards and we didn't have much cash. We ended up going to the worst KFC in the world instead.
Sue is pretty much an expert on KFC operations as a result of her QSC job (damn near 20 years ago, yikes), but we didn't need her expertise to know that this servise was just downright pathetic. Food was OK, though. Also, it's now a KFC/TacoBell. Weird.
Left the KFC and notice a big plume of smoke across town. Driving down 55 we could tell it was close. Just before we got to the cemetary and had to turn we found the fire. A big outbuilding behind a house -- a garage, big shed, carriage house, etc. -- was fully FULLY engulfed in flames. The FD was there with one hose ineffectually trained on the blaze. This thing looked like it was going to be fully consumed and ashes in about 15 minutes. Weird. Despite working for the State Fire Marshal's Office, this is the first fully active fire scene I can recall attending.
Roofter attacked Lucy today. She, of course, reacted like Delta Burke, full of screams at the time and scoldings for me afterwards.. She has a two inch barely visible scratch on her shin. Roofter is pretty much a shithead, but you just have to let him know who is the boss. I put a size twelve upside his wattles the first time he came after me and we came to an understanding about who weighed 250 pounds and who weighed 1% of that.
// posted by Frank L. Dempsey @ 12:37 AM 
