The week before Christmas I rolled over to 200,000 miles in the Jeep! I'm super excited at this milestone. I took a picture with my phone while driving to work and that isn't an easy feat while driving 70mph. I plan on taking it into the shop in the next few weeks to repair a few odds and ends that I can't do myself. Then I'll buy all new fluids and replace those myself in the driveway. I'll probably limit the fluid replacement to coolant, transmission fluid, and oil. I'll just check the levels of the other stuff.
For Christmas my parents got me a new set of foglights for the Jeep. Once all the repair work is complete, I'll install those as well.
I guess that's it. 200,000 miles and counting!
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Frozen In
If anyone has been listening to the news, our county got the brunt of the ice storm that rolled through Atlanta. I was working a little late and tried to head home around 5:30. Wrong choice. I didn't even make it to the interstate when I just turned around and headed back to the office to work in hopes that the traffic would die down. I worked alone until about 7 or so and tried it again. This time traffic was lighter but still backed up like crazy trying to get on the interstate. WSB was great in getting me up to date information. That is when I found out that 575 was closed do to accidents and ice. They said that from 4:30pm to 6pm, in those 90 minutes, our county recorded 90 accidents! I turned around again and tried another direction.
I knew of a bunch of back roads to get home and I thought I'd try one route that takes me by April's school. This proved to be the perfect route with no accidents or traffic but the roads were very windy and rural. 20 mph all the way home and didn't get to the neighborhood until about 8pm. I saw about 20 cars parked in yards at the entrance of the neighborhood and after talking with some people milling about, I found out that the roads in the neighborhood were frozen. So I parked the Jeep and walked the half mile home.
School is canceled tomorrow but I think work will be "canceled" in the morning at least.
I knew of a bunch of back roads to get home and I thought I'd try one route that takes me by April's school. This proved to be the perfect route with no accidents or traffic but the roads were very windy and rural. 20 mph all the way home and didn't get to the neighborhood until about 8pm. I saw about 20 cars parked in yards at the entrance of the neighborhood and after talking with some people milling about, I found out that the roads in the neighborhood were frozen. So I parked the Jeep and walked the half mile home.
School is canceled tomorrow but I think work will be "canceled" in the morning at least.
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