{"id":12984,"date":"2023-08-09T12:48:48","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T19:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=12984"},"modified":"2023-08-09T12:48:48","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T19:48:48","slug":"sometimes-you-just-have-to-say-screw-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2023\/08\/09\/sometimes-you-just-have-to-say-screw-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes you just have to say Screw IT!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I\u2019ve been trying for 3 days to get a tow truck to get one vehicle to a service facility.
It\u2019s less than 10 miles.

But because\u2026

What? Why is it always so difficult to get almost anything done here? It\u2019s not that there aren\u2019t folks to do stuff, it\u2019s that they\u2019ve always got attitude about it as if they\u2019re the only ones available, and truthfully sometimes they are.

When you try to locate someone else it\u2019s like pulling teeth, there\u2019s tons of scheduling difficulties and lots of hemming and hawing.

So this morning, after spending Monday and half of Tuesday and the first couple hours this morning trying to locate another towing company. I said screw it! I fired up the car that has been overheating, and in the cool overcast I allowed gravity to assist me down the mountain while keeping cool airflow over the engine. I made it to the repair facility before the temp reached 212\u00b0 F.

The difference between being someone who can drive versus someone who Drives<\/em> I guess. This is probably why I got almost 100,000 miles out of the brakes on my 1 Series.
If you can gauge the weight and how your car slows down when you take your foot off the gas, with engine braking you don\u2019t really need brakes until you need to stop at a light, stop sign, or because someone else in front of you is slamming on their brakes every 8 seconds.

So I\u2019m at the repair facility and I was thinking about the general difficulties of living where I do.

Things were never as easy as when I lived in dense urban areas. But over the past decade things have gotten a lot<\/strong> harder.

It\u2019s simple things, like mandated inspections. Getting tow trucks, finding someone to do a septic tank replacement, or paint the whole house. Repairs around the house for which I may not have the tools, the skill, or both, are also a pain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Theres a lot of good about being here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I love my view, I\u2019m becoming less fond of winters. Even so, the sound of snow, the beauty of full moon on untouched snowdrifts, the rainbow sprinkles you sometime see on fresh snow in the sun, these are things that I will miss if I leave this place. Typically the Summer isn\u2019t too hot or uncomfortable and as in winter, I appreciate the sounds of nature, the beauty of a sunrise or sunset, the rare rain and rarer thunderstorm. I like hiking around the area and having pretty safe places to walk the dog. I enjoy watching the hummingbirds and their battles around the feeder. Their aerobatics always put a smile on my face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There\u2019s a lot of bad about being here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One or two neighbors up the road who make things super miserable for everyone else. Slow police response time, The difficulties I mentioned before about getting things done. The exceedingly long commutes to get to basic services. The general cost of everything here in California. There\u2019s no sign of that changing any time soon. I suspect that it\u2019s going to get worse before the state figures out the people they\u2019re increasing the taxation on are the same people they\u2019re forced to pay subsidies to because otherwise those folks are below the state poverty line, but not the federal level.

It\u2019s with a lot of this stuff in mind that I\u2019ve started a pro and con list of remaining here.
It\u2019s questionable if I can stay here without finding a job. There are a lot of memories here. Most of them are happy, but some of them are very sad. Finding people to interact in positive ways is difficult. Dating, should I choose to do that, will be almost impossible. Commuting to a job will be more difficult. Traffic has gotten so bad that even a short commute is not as easy as it once was. Sadly the bad list is outweighing the good.

I\u2019ll keep working on it. It\u2019s been suggested that I pack the dog up and take a road trip to some of the places I\u2019ve been considering as alternatives to California. I think it\u2019s a good idea\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve been trying for 3 days to get a tow truck to get one vehicle to a service facility.It\u2019s less than 10 miles. But because\u2026 What? Why is it always so difficult to get almost anything done here? It\u2019s not that there aren\u2019t folks to do stuff, it\u2019s that they\u2019ve always got attitude about it … <\/p>\n

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