I'm a Slacker

So it's been a while since I posted. I just spent a much needed weekend with the better half. But now I'm bored and no longer entertained by the bad jokes I've heard 600,000,000,000,000,000 times and I don't have a shoulder to curl up into at night or a hand constantly rubbing an arm , leg, or my back. I'll survive somehow. At first I didn't want to go to work tonight, but now I'm glad I did. It gave me something to do other than mope around the apartment tonight. I always need a distraction after Nagi leaves so I don't get all down in the dumps, and a few days later reflect on what an awesome time I had with him :)

I also went to the Toledo Zoo on Friday with Gimp and the kids that she babysits. It quickly reminded me why I don't have kids. Any normal adult would make a logical path in a loop-like fashion from the front to the back and back to the front of the zoo. Not kids. They want to go from the front to the back back to the front then to the left side, then to the back, then to the right...well you get the picture. Keeping up with them was also an adventure. And they wanted EVERYTHING. Overall it was fun, and gave me something to do instead of sitting around waiting to drive to the airport to pick up Nagi.

Speaking of driving to Detroit to pick up Nagi, I got stuck in traffic on the way. Sure it was 5:30 when I left, so I expected heavy traffic through Toledo, but I didn't expect 75 to be completely shut down on the NB and SB sides. As I approached downtown and the crossing of the Maumee River I saw some black smoke. I assumed the traffic slowing down was a little rubbernecking, and that I would sit through it and wait it out since I didn't really know a for sure route around downtown. Then traffic started to slow more and I noticed the lack of traffic headed south, at the point I started wondering if 75 was shut down or not, so I switched from CD to radio for the "rush hour here's how traffic is doing report" to see if they would mention it, that's when I found out that 75 was closed and they gave an alternate route that I followed after cutting through the grass in the median. The smoke was a result of a grain dust explosion in one of the grain elevators along the river right next to 75. On the way back from the airport, it was still closed, only they had cones out forcing traffic onto 475. That was my planned alternate route anyway. I found out that 75 was closed from 3:30-8:30 on Friday. When dropped Nagi off at the airport today, there was still a fire. Also, after reading the paper, Over 10 million dollars in product was stored in the grain elevator. That made for an exciting start to the weekend :)