June 16, 2007

• June 13th, 2007, A day of great bad, and great good.

  The DARKER version starts out normally like this line.

  --------------The LIGHTER version starts out like this line.

  I had left Reno, NV on the night of the 12th, looked for fuel and couldn't find anywhere in Reno that took the particular method of payment that I can pay with.

  ------------Got to hang out with Daniel Geaslen, and Tristan Sipres, both great godly men who like to have fun. We all had burgers at Outback Steakhouse.

  Drove to Janesville, CA on Hwy 385, found a fuel stop, it was closed. Backtracked 8 miles for a good parking spot.

  ------------Didn't run out of fuel.

  100 miles from where I needed to drop the load in Alturas, CA.

  -----------It only takes 2 hours to go that far.

  Woke up the next morning with the sun shining in my face.

  -----------And reflecting off of a beautiful lake was a gorgeous mountain. What a perfect site for a birthday boys morning.

  Spent an hour trying to find somewhere to fuel, three stops to find it. Pacific Pride in , and they only let me have 85.400 gallons and didn't even have a price up.

  -----------Found somewhere to fuel, and didn't run out!!!!

  Skipped stopping at McDonalds for breakfast cause I was only going two hours and could wait that long.

  -----------Had lunch at the Wagon Wheel Cafe in Alturas, CA and got a coffee cup in exchange for a big tip.

  Took off driving on a hwy was supposed to merge back with Hwy 385(locals gave me directions, they should know.) After ten miles I figured they were wrong, and after ten more miles found a pasture with a shallow ditch to turn around my truck.

  ----------There was a place to turn around, and that is hard to do on local county roads sometimes, it also turns out that had I gone 5 miles further, it does merge with Hwy 385.

  Back track 20 mi.

  ----------Got to see what was in my mirrors from the front this time(yes that is a streach).

  Hwy 385 north, get behind an old lady who can't decide weather she wants to drive 55mph or 65mph. Pass her, climb a small hill accelerating to the top.

  -----------Making up time is great when you are late.

  Reach the top at 73mph, see the glint of sunlight off of a cop cars cherrys.

  -----------Got clocked at 69, ticked for 64. Saving me a whole lot of trouble, and lots of dollars, and possibly my job.

  Get ticket. (California has an extremely stupid, not to mention dangerous split speed limit of 65 for cars, 55 for trucks.)

  -----------The Cop thinks the split speed limit is stupid too, and tells me to just keep it under 65 and he won't pull me over again.

  Get stopped for at least 20 min at 3 different one lane construction sites.

  -----------Got to play a new computer game I got from Caleb, and see some great scenery.

  Finally after 5 housr with out breakfast, get to Alturas, after 3 days of trying to call this place to find out where they are, and them never answering, or having an answering machine all I know is its somewhere along Hwy 385.

  ------------I had the wrong number, and using my mad searching skills (given to me as a gift by God) I still found what I was looking for.

  After driving slowly thru town and reaching the northern outskirts, find it.

  -----------ok, got nothing here.

  Park in thier lot, spend 45 min looking around before someone shows up to unload me.

  ----------I got to streach my legs, which I havn't had time to do latley, the receptionist in the front office was very nice and faxed something for me.

  Upon leaving said location, run over my cell phone with my simi.

  ------------I have a half broken back up phone, I can't read the broken LCD screen, but I can still send and recieve calls.

  Drive back to Reno to pick up load on the 14th, that I should have picked up on what was then today.

  ------------Daniel Geaslen got an e-mail from his old Xanga site about me not having his number anymore, and calls me back. And he buys me supper at a Chinese Buffet.

  Get tired part way back, try to take nap to be interupted by three phone calls from my two sisters Mary, and Sam and finally by my Mama, all to wish me happy birthday.

  -----------I got a lot of Happy birhtday wishes from a lot of people, and felt really good, even though I was in miserable CA.

  Get irritated at not being able to go back to sleep finish drive to Reno.

  ------------Spent the night in Daniels hotel room, got some real good hang time with him and Jesus.

  So overall it was a great day. Plenty of bad points about it, but each one has a redeeming silver lining that only God can give. What a blessing my Birthday was. Glory to the father.

  BlackWolf

  PS remember to look at the good stuff throught any day, it can really save you the hassle of having a bad day.

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