The Silent Tower

So, yeah …
I seem to have done this more than once *abashed grin*  I have once again completely run my car out of gas.

Previous times:
I was heading out of town from Fayetteville toward home, and I ran out of gas.  Wound up pushing my car about a mile or so I think to the gas station – even had a guy hope out of his car and help me push for a while.

Another time I was coming down to Fayetteville to visit my sister, and I ran out of gas on the highway .. within coasting distance of an exit ramp and the gas station right there on the corner.

This time, I was stopped at the light just across and behind from where I work.  When I pulled up and stopped I was at an angle, and I heard this strange sound.  I realize now that, as I was suspecting, it was the gas pump trying to get fuel to the engine.  I made it across the way after the light changed, though the car almost died at one point before it sedately made it the rest of the way into my parking space at work.

When I went out this evening to start the car, it turned over just fine – but it wouldn’t start.  It was, after all, completely empty.  I walked to Wally, right across the street, and purchased a 1 gallon gas can.  Then across the street, across the street and across a parking lot to the gas station.  Filled my little can, brought it back, put it in the car – drove over and put a bit more gas in.

All in all, it was a rather nice little adventure.  Nothing serious was wrong, nobody got hurt – I just got in a bit of exercised.

What I find most interesting is thinking of where the gas gauge was hovering when I pulled into the store and parked before I went in to work.  If that was completely empty .. there was a number of times when I lived in AR that that was exactly where it sat when I left from home to head in to work – a good 45 minute drive away.  I think I was being taken care of – then, and all the times I’ve run out of gas as well

Made it this far – that’s a good sign

Had class this morning, as usual – but also had our first test O_o I did fairly well – most certainly not as good as I could have, but not horrible.  Now I know what to expect though.  And we do get to drop out lowest test score at the end of the session ^-^

So far the week is progressing fairly well.  Work is work – which has been fairly slow as of late, which leads to times of being *extreme* boredom, which leads to getting all the closing duties and cleaning done -way- before time to go.  Not a bad thing over-all, but a bit mind numbing at times.

Work again at 4 today – but it means I’ll have 30+ hours this next check, for which my bank account thanks me   Next day off is Saturday, for a total of 6 straight days  @_@  I know, not as bad as some, but still

Off to finish the day!

So, it’s Monday of another week.  Though, as I work every Sunday, that almost makes this a Tuesday – though that doesn’t mean the weekend comes any sooner, just that the last got a little shorter

I had a good weekend ^_^ On Saturday, a friend invited me out to a gaming event.  I met up with him and some of his friends, and we ran through a short module that gave us a taste of the new D&D 4E system.  What we played ran a lot like MMO Miniatures – which isn’t necessarily a bad thing.  The combat is pretty stream-lined, which allows it to take place much faster while remaining interesting (hopefully).  The question will be if it’s possible to add back in the role-play to go along with the system.  If so, I think it could be a lot of fun ^_^

We were at the event til a bit after 9, then we all went to Qdoba and had something to eat.  All told, we were probably there at least an hour, just talking and comparing stories.  We were trying to decide on a game we could all play together, though our bunny trails had bunny trails as often as we got on to something else   It was fun though, as it was a group of fascinating people ^^

After food, we headed back to aforementioned friend’s house and sat and talked a while longer, going over the idea of a couple different games/systems, and finally settling on Scion.  Excellent White Wolf game – you should check it out if you haven’t before.  We were there til almost 2:30 in the morning before we all packed up and headed out.  We never actually came up with when this playing might take place .. but at least we have a grounding to build it off of

Yesterday was work all morning, then relaxing a bit when I got home.  Hopped on FFXI for a while and lvld my BRD   Just finally made over lvl 30 in my first primary class, so I get to unlock all the extra classes now   I have a feeling that BRD will become my primary class, but I still want to check out a bunch of the others, just to play around a bit ^^

Today – there is work later today.  In fact, I work every day this week except Saturday @_@  Now, my bank account will certainly appreciate the hours, but I’m going to be dragging come the weekend -_-

Here’s to shinee things to get me through the week, and something spectacular once again to mark the coming weekend!