Today has been awesome! It really has!
Okay, so after taking care of Skippy today, I squeezed myself into my dad's pickup truck, making sure I wasn't sitting or lying on any part of my anatomy. It hurts more than you'd think to lie on your wings or tail.
With Skippy to defend the home front, I was off to see about procuring a truck that we could use to become mobile. Like hell I'm going to stay around here once the water gives out. I don't know how long that'll take, but the Internet has finally started lagging way too much to be of any real use. Only a matter of time before it gives out. Soon after will be the power, followed by water. I need to plan to head up to the reservoirs soon.
Which will be easy in my brand spankin' new 18-wheeler! I made it down to the truck stop to see about eight of the things, all with a trailer attached to them, sitting near the small building. The first thing I did was look in the stop itself to see roughly that many sets of keys hanging around the place. Along with quite a few sets of clothes. Guess whatever took care of everybody else didn't think about the clothes. Or keys. Yoink!
I eventually put all the keys to their respective trucks, and truck number five had a surprise for me.
It wasn't a stick shift.
I was blown away by that. I did not know you could have trailer-trucks that didn't use a stick and clutch to shift gears! Guess that bit of research yesterday wasn't useful after all. Plus when I opened up the back to check the cargo, there wasn't any! I could not be more lucky with this truck!
Of course, then I had to drive both vehicles back...Let me tell you, walking that far was an experience in this new body. One that I hope I don't experience again. I tripped more than once, but I wasn't about to let something like that stop me.
I would have both pickup truck and trailer truck, and nothing was gonna get in my way. I parked the trailer truck on the main road, while I eventually parked the pickup truck back at my neighbor's place. By the time I got back, it was late enough for me to have to cook for myself and feed Skippy again. I'm just glad he's still housebroken.
Yes, you mutt. Y'hear that? We're gonna be mobile soon.
Tomorrow I plan to take the pickup truck out to get some kibble provisions for Skippy. And I should probably see into another matter as well...
Whatever, it's late. Get some sleep, dog.