Bright Lights and a $500,000 mistake.

I'm going to save my rants on why SUV's are bad and dangerous to other drives and go straight into the rant on, idiots who drive down I-65 with their bright lights on. This one Ford Explorer was creeping up on me in the passing lane as I was cruising at a moderate 78 mph. Those lights were so bright and right at eye level.

I think I'm going to start carrying a paintball gun, courtesy of Tippmann Pneumatics... makers of my favorite all time paint gun, the fully automatic SMG60... and next time one of these idiots drives up behind me with their brights on... I'm going to mark them.

Ok, on to today. This morning was good at church. Good message. Good music. Bolted out quickly because I had to meet Q at the track at 12:30 PM for a run. Got some good sun today. Headed out to the business dinner thing in Nashville at 2:45 PM.

It was supposed to start at 4:00... we got there a little after 5:00. Why were we late? Well, yes, it had something to do with Shane and Melody running late, as per usual. But, in addition we did our good samaritan act of the week. Here's the low down.

On the drive to exit 65, we came upon an old couple in the right hand lane whose rear passenger side tire was low on air. REALLY low. So being the industrious engineer that I am, I was able to rumage around in the back seat of Shane and Melody's car and find a sheet of paper. Then I got some lipstick from Melody and wrote the words "FLAT TIRE" on the paper in big letters. We then let the old couple drive up beside us and I showed them the sign. They pulled over and we helped them change their tire on the side of the road.

That whole thing took about 20 minutes. Why so long? Because they were on their way back from spending 1-month in Florida and their 2003 Toyota Camry was PACKED FULL of stuff. Clothes, Food, Fishing Gear... everything you'd need or want to have with you for a month in Florida. I wish Shane would have taken a pic, because literally there was stuff stuffed into the crevices in the trunk. Wow.

Anyways, the dinner thing went well. Learned that the guy who bought the 1/2 million dollar house to rent out, CAN NOT rent it out because the by-laws in the subdivision home ownership association guidelines do not allow renting in that subdivision. Whoops. LOL So now our focus on that video has slighly changed a little bit.

So in short...

The bad news is, we won't get to stay at the 1/2 million dollar lake house once it's sold.

The good news is, we confirmed we can use it whenever we want to until it sells... and seeing as how it's been in the 80's here lately, I think we're going to start becoming regulars in the town of Centerville, TN.

Made the usual round of Sunday night phone calls to friends. Jeff, Bunny and Jeremy. Good to talk to you all as usual.

Well I think I need to get to bed. Tomorrow is going to be busy.