homesafe

probably shoulda posted this in the weehours, but I hit the sheets like a felled tree and slept like the dead until hydraulic pressure (aided by a kitteh bouncing off the abs telling me ‘Mornin’!!!’   blasted kat!  ) forced me to ambulate to the head.  

Driving through Chattanooga in a strange truck, at night, in the rain, on a Friday,,,  I DO NOT RECCOMEND.    Felt safer racing a fiveton across the Kuwaiti desert.

Got the Da home, and since the truck was loaded with all my chit, we agreed I bring it up the hill and unload it this AM,,,   Still need to do that, then attend to the domestics stuff that ain’t gonna wait another week.

Dunno what I wanna do with the Buffalo:   the more I dig, the less attractive repairing her gets.   Gotta get her back here no matter what, OR, at least get back down there and get the rest of my crap out of her.    Left stuff because Da’s truck is smaller in the cab than she, and nothing was essential to mission at this stage.     In hindsight, I should have stuffed all that stuff in the holds of the kayaks,,,   Was a little rattled yesterday and not thinking clearly, and getting mixed ‘pushes’ from different angles, including my internal ones.    One thing that kept trickling back was ‘Just sign the damned title over to this dude’ (the shop owner that couldn’t get to her anytime soon but is letting her sit there awaiting recovery,,,   Nice guy,,,) but that felt like such a cop-out: “easy choices; hard life- hard choices; easy life”   Dunno, but now I am stuck with the fact that there is a 270 mile gap between me and quite a bit of my kit.   And a truck with a locked up rear end in need of recovery.    I have an option there, one tossed to me by SoB, as mentioned in my update post yesterday.   But getting Buff back here is only the start.  

whats the trouble you ask?   Buff is a ZR5 package(read as ‘pricy’). I live in the sticks. Differential parts is heavy. and I have NEVER been able to set the crush sleeve on a pinion bearing correctly. (bastaches always howl on me.)

So, whats the problem?

Nothing really, just using the blog as a mental whiteboard and trying to figure out what I am going to do. May be a bit premature (she isn’t back here, YET) and it may end up being another thunder run to Bama to grab my gear and toss a title into Cecils hands. Dunno yet. (and I don’t want to ‘just give her away’: Even as scrap, she is worth something. Dad suggested just pulling all my shit and walking away, but that total loss of an asset ate at my craw. The balance of ” how much is recovery going to cost vs how much is she worth”, is coming into play here.)

ANywhoosss, I has to unload Da’s truck of kayaks and truck box (with all my tools, hell to the NO was I leaving that sitting in Dogsbluewonder.) get my bum down to his place and take care of things there, and maybe brainstorm towards a solution,,,

And the solution is always the one I hate the most,,,,

more money,,,,

(absolutely NOT blegging anymore,,, thanks to all of you that tossed coin my way, I will do what I can to make it up to you in whatever miniscule way I can,,, entertain you, inform you, what not,, but I will ‘pay it back AND pay it forward’ in some way.

Oh, And if ya haven’t seen, BCE’s back-up site is running. Go give him some love too.