shutdown -h in Denver

[Collins Richey]

On 12/21/06, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 07:05 -0700, Collins Richey wrote:

> >
> > Yesterday my car got stuck in a drift on the way home. Two sets of
> > Samaritans helped me out. One gave me a ride to a gas station where I
> > tromped around for a couple of hours until a lady drove in to fill up
> > her SUV. She delivered 3 of us to our doorsteps! Somehow, I don't
> > think a liberal weenie in a pushcart-sized alternative energy vehicle
> > would have been much use.
> >
> > It's really a blessing to be stranded in my own home instead of at the
> > airport or on the side of the road.
>
> You got that right, Brother. My old 1977 Chevy Pick-em-up Truck with the
> chugging sidepipes hitched up to a roaring gas consuming 350 V8 with a 4
> barrel Holley and some chains would have got you out, with some sandbags
> in the truck bed.
>

Yep, I really should have left out the liberal weenie joke. Even a
fire-breathing fundamentalist with a Bible on the seat driving a tiny
car wouldn't have been much help. You gotta have four-wheel drive or a
lotta horses under the hood in weather like this.

Meanwhile, on the home front, we've managed to clear the lower part of
the drive to the middle of the street, so when we finally get the car
unburied tomorrow, we get to go do it all again 10 miles away where my
car is stranded, assuming that it hasn't been towed!

-- 
Collins Richey
     If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries
     of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.