Broadsheet: Running on Empty

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. - Cyril Connolly

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Running on Empty

In response to my one and only loyal reader - I WAS ON VACATION!!!

I will catch up with posting later this evening, once I slog through 150 emails at work, return phone calls, and go to three or four meetings.

The only good thing that happened upon my return, was that I thought I had to face the day with letting a problem employee go first thing this morning, but they used their good common sense while I was away to come to the realization that the S---t was about to hit the proverbial wind generator, took the rather large hint that I wanted to see them at 7:30 this morning on my first day back, and resigned while I was gone. Problem solved.

I pulled into the driveway last night with the gas light blinking and telling me I had 5 miles to go before I ran out of gas. I was too tired, and it was too late, to run out and fill it up, so I knew I had to go first thing this morning.

Since the tank was hot last night, and most of those 5 gallons were based on vapors and the fact that I had been going 60+ mph for the last 300 miles, when I started the car this morning, it told me I had only 1 mile to go before the car quit. I managed to coast into the gas station on fumes, just as the indicator went to ZERO.

The tank holds 16 gallons. I filled it with 15.999 gallons of gas. Yep - that's as close to empty as I've ever gotten with this car.

More later: bald eagles, herons, wild turkeys, covered bridges, Amish buggies, etc....

posted by Broadsheet @ 10:20 AM