Little Things

Just a small thing, a website about St. Louis traffic and my mind goes back to the fact that I don't have to worry about that anymore. Mike used to call me between almost every piano and I would say "Yes, sir?"(I have caller ID so I would know who it was) He would always say...."I am not a sir!!!" But he was a "sir"!! He would usually want me to check with MoDot to find out what was holding up the traffic on Hwy 55 or 44 or 40 or 141 or 270. If you drive in St. Louis and you aren't familiar with that, you can go to MoDots website (www.gatewayguide.com) and you can see problems on a map. You can click on the icon for a car accident and it will give you details like when it happened, a basic description, which lanes are blocked and when they think it will be cleaned up. You can also see a "real-time" camera angle at major intersections in town. In the winter, I used to look on the cameras to see what the roads looked like up there. Sometimes we would be snow covered here but St. Louis would not have had anything. Usually it was the other way around.

Oh how I hated snowy days.....it was agony because you had made all these appointments, and we needed the money and the people certainly understood the conditions. It wasn't like we were delivering air for their iron lungs or anything but there was always pressure to accomodate those customers. It would be fun to have Mike home but he would worry and feel put out at himself for not making the effort.

So many things will change in the next few months. MoDot served it's purpose and I won't need it anymore. NOAA is not a place I want to stay anymore. Mike always kept up with the weather. I could never understand that. Why would you keep checking on it....can you change it. Of course, I understand that you need to be prepared in the case of an emergency but I just don't like to think about things before the time is right. I struggle with details.

Well, I must finish these thank you cards....I AM ALMOST THERE!!!!

II Corinthians 2:14
"Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place."