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Welcome to eastern PA. Hope you enjoy the region.
 
Allen Maddox, CID+



http://www.linkedin.com/in/trailsitter
 
  




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From: stephengregory5849 <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 7:48:01 PM
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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