wow... like WOW. i'm really done. today was my last day at crappy job. i finished out my two weeks and left on good terms, but i'm done. i feel very... complete, i guess, for the first time in awhile. chapter closed. move on to the next book. i turned in my keys, my final timesheet and everything. i just can't wait til the next payday. i turned in 55.5 hours for the past week of work, plus i get to cash in my 35 hours of vacation. woohoo!! very exciting for me. big paycheck on its way.
driving to work today i saw the strangest thing. i know from experience how hard it is to pull back into traffic after you've had to pull off the highway (and no i'm not just talking about tickets here... flat tires and break downs count too). i've always thought people were idiots for pulling over to the left against the walls in the middle because you are pretty much hanging out into the fast lane. it's extremely dangerous. apparently the DOT rescue vehicle people are smart enough to realize this simple fact, and today i got to see how they go about moving idiots from the left side to the right shoulder.
i was going along down 85S when a DOT vehicle raced by me. then about 2 miles later it turned on it's big blinking sign with a big straight line (instead of the normal arrows you see) and their flashers and everything. next thing i know they are just weaving all over the road. they started with the left lanes, about three, and got all those people slowed down. then they started weaving even more. at first i thought the person wasn't sure which side of the road they wanted to be on. by weaving like this they successfully managed to stop 8 lanes of traffic. it was insane. it was the closest thing i've ever seen that could be described as car herding in motion. either way, he shut down the whole connecter and i could just see a couple hundred yards ahead a DOT vehicle and one of the aforementioned idiots cut straight across the highway to the right shoulder. i'd never seen anything like it. not a single person tried to sneak by.
anyway, this is my vacation week and i get to go to california! to LA no less! i'm very excited. this will be my first time taking a trip by myself. or being on a plane by myself. or going to california by myself. lots of first by myselfs going on this week. but it's all very exciting. i have a lot to get cleaned up and some work transcriptions to get done before i go though. gotta keep your eye on the basket. or the goal. i never played basketball. or the cup if you are a golfer. you get the idea. staying focused. right.
