Sometimes when nothing is going right, it just seems like things are in place to mock you.  This week, I’ve been working in Nebraska and Wyoming, and, while Wyoming has been pretty scenic and enjoyable, Nebraska just wasn’t all that great.  We happened to get here during a pretty solid storm that helped us stay consistantly miserable for two days.  
About half of the work that we have to do at these sites is on the roof of the building and Nebraska just happened to have a storm with pouring …

I guess after awhile you start to take a desk job for granted.  So every once in awhile I guess it’s nice to get out, do some manual labor…..on a roof…..covered in bird droppings…..in the pouring rain.  Nevertheless, it’s been an interesting couple of days wandering from Detroit down through Michigan and into northern Ohio to do some installation work on truck stops.  The weather hasn’t really been the greatest, but when it’s not raining, the temperature has been favorable at least.  Hopefully I’ll get to head home on Friday …

We definitely need the rain here in Atlanta, so I tend not to complain when we get a good bit like we have today. I don’t feel as bad about being at work when it rains (though I was plenty late getting there this morning) and in general, a dreary day makes you appreciate the nice ones a little more, but I still have a few peeves about the rain overall.

Mainly, the fact that, when it rains, the stereo in my car doesn’t work for roughly the next three days. The highlight of our drought over the past year or so? I always have radio in my car. Sad, but true. The part that really gets to me the most is that my car has been to the dealer for service no less than 12 times and have mentioned this problem and it has been “fixed” 5 of those times. (I promise, I’m a car guy, it’s normal to keep track of these things.)