Steve,

Glad you made it in relatively unscathed.  I Experienced the Indy
merrygoround on the way to and from FL visiting the grandkids earlier in the
year.  PS - that is your stimulus money working for you ....?   

Go easy!  Tylenol 3 has codine in it!  Might make your driving skills a bit
fuzzy around the edges.    Definitely - though shalt not drink of fermented
beverages!

Use caution on serious financial items, etc.

     Sorry, could not bear to look at the picture, but I bet it truly was an
"Oh S_ _ T!  That is gonna hurt, moment!  Hope the little guy has a good
time with his neighbor   :-)

Steve C

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From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of stephengregory5849
Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 7:48 PM
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Subject: [TN] NTC: I made it to Allentown!

Hi All!

It's been a while since I've posted, so I thought I would give an update. I
made the 1,252-mile trek from Tulsa to Allentown, PA for my new job. The
trip was pretty uneventful. I loaded my U-haul truck up and my PT Cruiser on
a trailer, and headed east. The only traffic problem I had to speak of was
when I went through the Indianapolis, Indiana area. They were doing
construction on a portion of the interstate that had the traffic down to one
lane for about 5-miles and that had things backed-up terribly. It was
backed-up about 5-miles before the contruction, it took almost 2-hours to
get through that mess. The only other negative thing is that U-haul trucks
are not known for having the best gas milage, especially when towing a car
trailer. I burned through almost $400 in gas on the trip.

I arrived in Allentown and checked into a hotel to rest a day, to prepare to
unload everything into my new apartment. Even that went pretty well. I had
scheduled unload help through U-haul, they contact helpers in your area if
you want them, an you get two people at $50 an hour for both of them. I
contracted them for two hours and figured that it would be $100 well spent
after driving for 1,200 miles. They showed-up on time and had the truck
unloaded in about an hour and a half. Now the real work for me was ahead,
getting everything out of boxes and put away, and getting all my stuff
arranged inside my new nest.

Pretty boring stuff huh?

Well, I'm typing out this email this evening after my return from a local
urgent care clinic. Here's the story. I had my living room my furniture
arranged where I wanted it, and started to hanging my paintings and pictures
on the wall. I was carrying one of the larger ones to a place where I was
about to hang it (I was in my stocking feet), and managed to hit a couch leg
with my little toe on my right foot. After a couple of expletitives, the
pain subsided and I finished hanging the painting. I put a few more pictures
up, opened some more boxes and put some more stuff away. But I felt that
something wasn't quite right with my little toe. It didn't really hurt that
bad, but it didn't feel quite right. So I sat down and pulled my sock off,
and this is what I saw:

http://stevezeva.homestead.com/files/broken_little_toe.JPG

I had never broken a toe before, but I've never had one turn that purple, so
I thought I'd better get it checked out. After a couple of x-rays, the
doctor confirmed it."Yep, your toe is broken" he said, "but there's not a
whole lot we can do for it other than buddy-tape it to the toe next to it."
So he told me how to buddy tape it, gave me some Tylenol #3, and told me to
wear thick soled shoes for the next few weeks to keep it from flexing while
it heals. 

Great. Pick-up and move 1,200 miles, get here, and break my friggen' toe
hanging a picture. Moral of the story: Don't be a klutz like me. Thankfully,
it doesn't hurt much at all and I can still get around fairly well. Won't be
running any 100-yard dashes for a while, but I'll be fine.

Steve  



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