Eclipse Preparation

 Not sure what will happen during the eclipse but I am prepared.

Chairs ready, glasses ready, coffee ready, and 30 sharpened stakes with a large mallet on standby.

I watched enough horror movies so I ain't taking chances.

Carey On...

What's for lunch?

 One of the reasons workers love working for me is the meals. I will find a way to cook. It is cheaper than going out, and it's tastier and healthier. 

We are redoing my rental, which doesn't have a stove, so I brought a deep fryer. Aw, fresh-cut fries and chicken wings, nothing like it for a lunch break. 

The added benefit -  customers usually remark wow, it smells so good in here!

Carey On...

Leap Day 2024

 Leap Day, so how did I spend the extra day?

My day was as such -

Get a friend's vehicle that was parked at another friend's house so the first friend could drive home from the airport - 12:36 received phone call - organize the work van - go to my accountant - go to the post office - switch vehicles and drive the work van to Tops TV on E185 St Cleveland that was holding a cassette player they repaired back in the fall - 3:38 received phone call - run to the rental house to meet my worker and the previous tenant to retrieve her mail - 4:03 received phone call - unload work van so I could pick up items in Mentor - 4:50 received phone call - then load up two boxes of old beer cans someone wanted to buy - 5:01 received phone call then I got upset because I remembered while at my accountants I forgot I needed to drop off a jacket and glasses a friend left in my van, oh well - 5:09 make phone call - 5:44 received phone call - speed to a friends house in Mentor who was waiting since Sunday to remove a few things because he was not able - 6:11 received phone call - 6:18 received phone call - speed to a warehouse on the other side of Mentor to a warehouse that had a door for my rental - 6:31 make phone call - 6:35 received phone call - 6:38 received phone call - 7:03 received phone call - speed yet to another area in Mentor to meet a man at a restaurant parking lot who wanted to buy the old beer cans, I was waiting a good 15 minutes, he called and said where are you? duh he was 4 cars over, and we didn't know it - pick up a quick snack at Arby's - went back to the rental to unload the door and work van and hang a cupboard and clean - 9:38 received phone call - 9:43 received phone call - 9:46 received phone call - speed home only to be stopped by James, who wanted to be shown where the Winter Cookout/Freeze Fest is - 1:18 received phone call

And that concluded my day.

OH and I didn't log the texts and emails and messages through Messenger.

What a way to waste an extra day.

So you still think you want to be self-employed?

Carey On...

Double Take

  I drove my 1995 Chevy G20 green van to Discount Tire to get work done. I thought going the day after Thanksgiving would be ideal. I found out it's one of the year's busiest days. So, to kill time, I brought in one of the books I authored, Travel Life "n" Carey On... to read. I noticed the man across from me, also waiting, was wearing a Make God Great Again shirt. Of course, I had to comment, which spurred a good conversation. We agreed on everything politically, and he purchased one of my books.

As we conversed, I looked into the service area, and my van was in the bay. I then glance out into the parking and do a double take. What? There's my van.

The mechanic then drives my van into the bay next to the other green van.

The attendant at the desk said Now that's weird we hardly ever get G20 vans in here, and they are both green and 95!

The only difference was that mine is a shorty, his was the Gladiator conversion, and mine is the Sherry conversion but everything else, the same windows, color, and year! Now that's odd.

Ithaca part 1

 Some trips start slow; this trip started slow only the first few hours on the road.

Rich had made plans months ago for his annual fall vacation. He made plans to go to Ithica, NY, and asked if I was into going. Very few trips did I not have a hand in planning this one I had none.

I took the green Sherry and, so far, fairly impressive mpg at 18, which is great considering I am driving an old van with the aerodynamics of a brick.

My ole girl needed a set of wiper blades. I bought some before take off but never put them on. By the way, have you seen the price of wipers? This econo set was purchased at O'Reilly, and they were still yikes high! Well, the stop at one of the best, if not the best, roadside rests in Chautauqua Lake, which I have written about in the past, garnered no success in removing what I believe to be the original wipers from '95.

So we stopped in Cuba, NY, to fill up my bread with cold cuts to complete the half-made sandwich that I started building at home. And what a pleasant surprise. They have a phenomenal cheese shop called the Cuba Cheese Shop Cuba Cheese Shoppe Inc.. I bought some terrific goodies. Then, a short drive through town was an old-style Carquest Auto parts store. I told Rich, let's stop; I will buy new wipers and let them put them on. Well, I was blessed. The wiper blades were 50% off. There was a short wait before they could install them, so a walk through town to kill time landed me in the Cuba Cheese Museum and Opera House. 

I recommend seeing the museum and having a snack and coffee at the adjacent store. They have connecting doors so you can go from one place to the other without leaving.

A free tour and some chit-chat with Paul, the friendly guide, before heading back to the parts store. 

They had the wipers put on in zero time. The next stop was the Giant Food Mart to buy deli meat, then onto Ithica. So that was our first leg of the journey.

Yellow Dog Village Pennsylvania

 Hey Gang, no long story but lots of photos for you to enjoy.

USFL

 A big shout out and thank you to the man in the right in the photo below.

Went to the USFL game between the Stars and Generals and he gave us tickets to enter the game and didn't want anything for them.

God Bless you sir whoever you are.

Unfortunately Cookus and the Philadelphia Stars the team I was pulling for lost to the NJ Generals.