So I’m on my way home this evening, and it’s pretty dark by this time. I can see several miles in front of me that someone’s pulled over on the side of the road. Lights are flashing.
Not all that normal for the stretch of road I drive, but not terribly uncommon either. As I approach, I notice that this is a large vehicle mostly on the shoulder (but there’s not much shoulder at this location). A little closer, and I notice that a sheriff’s deputy has a beer truck pulled over!
‘How cool is that?’ I think to myself. The second thought: ‘Oh, to have the camera!’ I mean seriously — here’s a beer truck. And a sheriff’s deputy. I can just picture the conversation:
“License and registration, please.”
“Have you been drinking tonight, sir?”
“Umm, no I have not, officer.”
“I can smell alcohol…”
You get the point… 🙂
As I get past the incident, I notice that the beer truck is not running. Its flashers are on, but no headlights. And another vehicle from the beer distributor is parked nearby, which leads me to put two and two together — the beer truck wasn’t pulled over; it simply broke down.
I guess I can dream. 🙂
When we went back into town this evening, we saw the beer truck and distributor’s vehicle parked at the co-op, with one of the workers there just putting the tow/push truck back into the shop. Confirmed: beer truck broke down.
On our return home, we got to see one of those really cool wintertime things — water vapor crystals. It almost turns into a fog/snow look. What basically happens is that at a certain air temperature (I register that the low temp for the day was actually -10.1 at 8:15 tonight, about the same time we were experiencing this phenomenon), the water vapor in the air actually crystallizes and falls/floats through the air. It creates a prism-type effect which looks almost like a fog.
It also has the very neat effect of reflecting light (from streetlights and other sources) directly upward into the sky. So it looks like a bunch of spotlights facing upward. And that’s cool. Literally.
It’s actually warming up as the evening progresses. Currently registers at -0.4. It’s like a heat wave!
And so that’s basically how my day has been today. A normal work day, but then some interesting evening events that don’t usually happen in life…so I write. 🙂
I’ve got the Celtic Woman Christmas thing set to be captured at 1AM, so I’m looking forward to watching that later. Should be good stuff.
And with that said, combined with the fact I’m now yawning compulsively, I’m calling it a night!
Until next time…
“You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.”
– Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)
–MZ