Trying to contact Bill Wente

[Lynn]

Glad you made it home safely. Hope you didn't need any "pep pills from a crack whore".

Still laughing at that video.

[Too Many Projects]

Had a "few" coffee's along the way and I subscribed to the Sirius/XM program at their new customer special rate of $3/month for 36 months when I first bought the car 18 months ago. That helped keep my mind from falling asleep thru Wednesday night.
I took a different route home from Perry, FL to Tupelo, MS to avoid any more freeways once I was past Tampa, that appeared they would be less traveled to avoid the extremely over bright headlights on cars now, but they had a lot more locals out wandering around until about 11pm than expected. It was more scenic and pleasant, but as expected, took longer to travel.
Bill was mildly amused at my habit of using 2 lane roads for long distance travel rather than freeways and shorter commute times.

[Lynn]

"...avoid the extremely over bright headlights on cars now,..."

Ain't that the truth.

[Bill Pritchard]

Reminds me of driving home to the Chicago area from Florida on New Year's Day 1976. Going north on I-95 was like driving a major urban freeway at rush hour....70MPH, bumper-to-bumper. As we approached the Florida-Georgia line all I could see were brake lights and cars swerving in every direction. I took to the median and avoided any damage. Continued north to the first exit, got off and headed west on some two lane highway til we got to Alabama, where we eventually picked up I-65 and continued north. Just crossed into Tennessee when I noticed the headlights on our 68 El Camino were extremely dim. Pulled off into an all-night service station and found out that the long alternator bolt on the small block had snapped off right at the cylinder head. Mechanic miraculously extracted the broken off piece of the bolt from the head, we removed the flat washer from behind the head of the long bolt and managed to get one thread of the bolt into the cylinder head. Made it all the way home like that.