Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Ever have one of those days? I'm having a couple of them...
Yesterday was a long driving day (it was a 2 fill day for the gas tank.) Much of the drive was through a long, boring stretch of Ohio, but once I hit northern Kentucky the scenery was beautiful. I drove with visions of exploring this northern territory in the Louisville area. But first I had to stop at Best Buy to get my laptop checked out. I've been having problems booting up in the mornings and getting "serious error" messages that talked about an "unknown driver device." So after 5 hours on the road, I put off finding the campground until we attended to the laptop.
Best Buy should have been a sign that this was not going to be a good place for me. I was there for an hour, with a BB Geek who was not happy to be working so long without lunch. His boss had told him to go eat, then taken off himself leaving this guy alone to man the busy Geek service counter. So in between attending to the many other customers he would come back to my ill laptop, muttering about how he was going to kill his boss. He couldn't seem to figure out what was wrong, but after messing with it a while, he shut down and restarted. Started perfectly. We figured he had somehow stumbled on the issue and solved it. I should have known better. It's only in the mornings after many hours of being off that the laptop is stubborn about starting - which it still did today. Problem not fixed.
By this time, I had not eaten since breakfast either, and was just tired and ready to get settled in. As I drove into the campground, I knew it was not going to be what I expected. Surrounded on all sides by freeways and major highways, my scooter was not going to serve me well here. But still, the ad sounded like they had arrangements with the nearby Holiday Inn for ways to see local attractions. I was thinking tours or shuttles, and I'd still be fine.
Nope. The only arrangement was to use their pool. So I made my reservation for 2 nights instead of 3. Not even going to bother unloading the scooter because there's not much I can see in Clarksville and Louisville is a freeway drive away on the other side of the river.
After checking in, we head to the campsite. This campground has as many sites packed in as they can get - we're almost on top of each other. OK. Now I'm thinking there is absolutely NO reason to stay at this campground without a car to get you around somewhere. And what's that I hear? A train? Yep.
Right next to the campground - I mean right next to the campground is a train track. They go VERY slowly through here because it's a metro area and they not only blow the horns but the wheels on the track make a horrendous noise.
Can't get much worse, can it? Yep. Now I hear a plane coming in for a landing. Must be an airport nearby too. They aren't very frequent, but they're loud.
Not only that, but I managed to screw up when hooking up my hose yesterday as I was dog-tired. It worked fine yesterday, but overnight it started shooting water and one of the workers here turned it off early this morning because I was starting to flood the area. Seems I had screwed my hose in crooked and now I couldn't get it out either. So he came by with a couple of wrenches and managed to unscrew it and hook it up straight.
At least the sun is shining, so even though it's a pain in the butt to walk to the Holiday Inn (past some questionable looking houses and neighbors) I'm going to spend my afternoon there with the book I picked up at Best Buy yesterday while waiting so blessed long to get my laptop attended to. Like I don't have enough books to read! But this one is a fun one. So that, combined with a sunny day at the pool, will hopefully turn things around here.
And tomorrow is another day and another place.
Yesterday was a long driving day (it was a 2 fill day for the gas tank.) Much of the drive was through a long, boring stretch of Ohio, but once I hit northern Kentucky the scenery was beautiful. I drove with visions of exploring this northern territory in the Louisville area. But first I had to stop at Best Buy to get my laptop checked out. I've been having problems booting up in the mornings and getting "serious error" messages that talked about an "unknown driver device." So after 5 hours on the road, I put off finding the campground until we attended to the laptop.
Best Buy should have been a sign that this was not going to be a good place for me. I was there for an hour, with a BB Geek who was not happy to be working so long without lunch. His boss had told him to go eat, then taken off himself leaving this guy alone to man the busy Geek service counter. So in between attending to the many other customers he would come back to my ill laptop, muttering about how he was going to kill his boss. He couldn't seem to figure out what was wrong, but after messing with it a while, he shut down and restarted. Started perfectly. We figured he had somehow stumbled on the issue and solved it. I should have known better. It's only in the mornings after many hours of being off that the laptop is stubborn about starting - which it still did today. Problem not fixed.
By this time, I had not eaten since breakfast either, and was just tired and ready to get settled in. As I drove into the campground, I knew it was not going to be what I expected. Surrounded on all sides by freeways and major highways, my scooter was not going to serve me well here. But still, the ad sounded like they had arrangements with the nearby Holiday Inn for ways to see local attractions. I was thinking tours or shuttles, and I'd still be fine.
Nope. The only arrangement was to use their pool. So I made my reservation for 2 nights instead of 3. Not even going to bother unloading the scooter because there's not much I can see in Clarksville and Louisville is a freeway drive away on the other side of the river.
After checking in, we head to the campsite. This campground has as many sites packed in as they can get - we're almost on top of each other. OK. Now I'm thinking there is absolutely NO reason to stay at this campground without a car to get you around somewhere. And what's that I hear? A train? Yep.
Right next to the campground - I mean right next to the campground is a train track. They go VERY slowly through here because it's a metro area and they not only blow the horns but the wheels on the track make a horrendous noise.
Can't get much worse, can it? Yep. Now I hear a plane coming in for a landing. Must be an airport nearby too. They aren't very frequent, but they're loud.
Not only that, but I managed to screw up when hooking up my hose yesterday as I was dog-tired. It worked fine yesterday, but overnight it started shooting water and one of the workers here turned it off early this morning because I was starting to flood the area. Seems I had screwed my hose in crooked and now I couldn't get it out either. So he came by with a couple of wrenches and managed to unscrew it and hook it up straight.
At least the sun is shining, so even though it's a pain in the butt to walk to the Holiday Inn (past some questionable looking houses and neighbors) I'm going to spend my afternoon there with the book I picked up at Best Buy yesterday while waiting so blessed long to get my laptop attended to. Like I don't have enough books to read! But this one is a fun one. So that, combined with a sunny day at the pool, will hopefully turn things around here.
And tomorrow is another day and another place.
posted by Kris at 7/10/2006 09:53:00 AM
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