Daily Archives: January 16, 2017
First Night on the Gate . . .
Well, Jan and I survived our first night shift on the gate, her as Gate Guard out by the highway in the guard shack and me working out of my truck on the pad, 5 miles inside the gate.
The night went fairly fast, with the only downside when it rained for a bit and turned my little corner of the pad into a mudhole.
The route into the pad is very convoluted, with a lot of turns, Y’s, T’s, and deadends. There is maybe 40 pads spread out over miles of roads, none of which are on any map or GPS.
I’m really glad I drove out there on Saturday in the daylight, otherwise I might have had a problem too. But, although no roads show up on the GPS, it does leave a trail of blue dots on the screen that I can now follow in and out.
One guy left the pad about 7:30pm heading home for the night. The he showed back up about an hour later, lost and bewildered. I guess I got him back on track because he never showed back up.
Of course he could just still be driving around out there somewhere.
The whole phone thing continues to confused. I was happy to see that we have a good signal and can make calls from the proposed new RV park, so that’s a plus for moving.
But on the strange side, apparently, although I can’t make calls from that area, I can receive them. My friend, Nick Russell, called me right at 5pm right after I got to the pad after dropping Jan off.
Weird.
And of course I still have text and data.
Landon’s doing the flag football think this year.
Looks like he’s having fun.
Since I can’t do the blog from our gate right now, new blogs may be kind of intermittent. But I’ll get them up when I can.
Thought for the Day:
“The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates.” Tacitus
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