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Road Blog - Taking My Half out of the Middle: June 2011
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Road Blog - Taking My Half out of the Middle. Monday, June 27, 2011. The Nail (originally written in May 1997). I took a quick glance at my watch. 8:25 am Great, I should be at Seattle U in 15 minutes, 20 tops. And that’s if there’s a “traffic slowdown”, which can be counted on like rain. Moving mountains of stuff that always seems to be above the spare tire compartment, I reach and find……oh no! With cars whipping by at 70 miles an hour (ok, it. 35 mph) I kneel to loosen the lugs nuts. Oh no! They have &...
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Road Blog - Taking My Half out of the Middle: April 2010
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Road Blog - Taking My Half out of the Middle. Wednesday, April 28, 2010. Green Motors Fire - The Attack (Part One). OK, I think I’ve finally mustered the courage to start this particular story. It’s 3 parts so I think that the daunting task has discouraged me. So, here goes…. This story begins on a weekday evening, March of 1990 or possibly 1991. Honestly, I don’t remember the correct year, but because we were still living on Moffett Drive, it was before Alessandra was born. With full lights and siren an...
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Road Blog - Taking My Half out of the Middle: July 2009
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Road Blog - Taking My Half out of the Middle. Wednesday, July 22, 2009. A sheepish Standby Call. I should have known this was going to be different. It was very unusual for my fire pager to go off and request a crew without being specific what the need was. This was one of those unusual calls. And, how come I don’t see any snow at all? After about 4 or 5 hours, we eventually extricated all of the living sheep but there were more than 80 that did not survive. Even though they were “just sheep...Oh̷...
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Road Blog - Taking My Half out of the Middle: September 2012
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Road Blog - Taking My Half out of the Middle. Wednesday, September 19, 2012. This effort is not for that purpose. And as I begin to put my experiences to paper I’m wondering to what end. This may just end up in my drawer at home or on my blog or I may email it to my children and possibly my mom and siblings. All I know at this point is that I feel very much like I must write this down, and do it today. My mind races back to that song most of us learned before we were old enough to attend kindergarten.
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Road Blog - Taking My Half out of the Middle: June 2009
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Road Blog - Taking My Half out of the Middle. Friday, June 5, 2009. Happy Birthday Melodie - 2009. Wow…it wasn’t easy converting my thoughts about Alessandra to words. This task however may prove to be impossible. Alas, challenging as it may be, I must try. There is no way that I can write a tribute to my wife in a page or two, but I will try my best to convey through images some of our experiences. Melodie and her mother Charlotte - 1976. After my High School graduation, I left town and went to Bakersfi...
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Road Blog - Taking My Half out of the Middle: January 2010
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Road Blog - Taking My Half out of the Middle. Saturday, January 30, 2010. Well these are words that I don’t think Melodie will ever answer positively to again. We’ve done plenty of camping over the years but our last trip might have been the trip to end it all. Let me explain. We checked the weather and it looked like it might be cooler and wetter than we liked and might end up spending the weekend in the trailer. Rather than cancel the trip I went to Costco and bought a portable DVD player. That...We ar...
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Road Blog - Taking My Half out of the Middle: October 2009
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Road Blog - Taking My Half out of the Middle. Thursday, October 29, 2009. Mom and Dad, What Were You Thinking? This story goes back as far as the early 70s, long before I met Melodie but not before I first met a bicycle. For many troubled youths bicycling became an escape from a rough family life. They would travel into worlds unknown for as long as they could before returning home to a turbulent life. This was not the case for me. Just as we were approaching Cartago part of the framework my dad and I ha...
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Road Blog - Taking My Half out of the Middle: May 2010
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Road Blog - Taking My Half out of the Middle. Monday, May 24, 2010. Green Motors Fire – The Investigation (Part Two). Later that morning I stopped by the fire scene on my way to work. There is something about a fire this large that just gets under your skin and it was common for me to want to go back and see what had actually occurred once the smoke had cleared and the morning sun arrived to signal the new day. The two of them began discussing an unusual mark on the concrete floor. The two of them mu...
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Road Blog - Taking My Half out of the Middle: The Nail (originally written in May 1997)
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Road Blog - Taking My Half out of the Middle. Monday, June 27, 2011. The Nail (originally written in May 1997). I took a quick glance at my watch. 8:25 am Great, I should be at Seattle U in 15 minutes, 20 tops. And that’s if there’s a “traffic slowdown”, which can be counted on like rain. Moving mountains of stuff that always seems to be above the spare tire compartment, I reach and find……oh no! With cars whipping by at 70 miles an hour (ok, it. 35 mph) I kneel to loosen the lugs nuts. Oh no! They have &...