my three morrocan friends whose story will be told one day 

running on fumes

So I was coming back from Merida, a small city about 40 minutes away, last Saturday night. I was driving a car that had a dysfunctional gas gauge. It permanently stated that the tank was empty. According to its owner, there was a good 10 euros worth of petroleum in the tank. Easily enough to get to Merida and probably back.

Well getting there was no problem. And we were well on our way back when suddenly I felt a bit of power drain out from under my foot. We were off the main highway a good 10 miles, dropping someone off in their little pueblo. And the sun was rapidly setting.

Another 25 seconds went by and the power dropped a little more. Along with my stomach. And so on for a few minutes until I was going 50 kilometers per hour. At that point, no joke, I decided to ask God to put a bit of gas in the car to cover my stupidity.

The car continued to run, increasily slower, for until we got back to the main road. However we were still a ways from a gas station. Still I continued to nurse the gas petal, pleading for every last foot of road it was willing to cover.

I continued to do that until the car finally died. Some 20 minutes after I first felt the car drop in power. Some 15 kilometers further down the road. And as the car settled to a halt, I looked across the road, on this empty and barren highway and saw a gas station, some 20 feet away.

I guess my thought is that cars don't take 18 minutes to slowly run out of gas.

new look, new start

And all is well again. Sidebar has been placed back on the side where it belongs. Nothing quite like having a sidebar down below. Then it would have to be called a footnote. Anyways, it was nothing more than simply deleting a line that was too long on "50th" post.

Blog has a new look. It came about in the overhaul to do with the rouge sidebar. I think it was time for a change and stuff is simple again. Alas no more message board or World Cup poll, but what can you do? Besides, the message board made a stupid pop-up pop up, and really most people who read this aren't too interested in the World Cup. And yes, I did manage to say pop up twice and still maintain my grammatical correctness. Some days I am just good.

Another thing that I realized I am good at recently: slicing things in half equally. Particularly baguettes if I have a large knife.

Well just finished a week off here. They take a good 10 days off for Easter. It's definately a good idea, if anyone wants to ask me. I stayed busy though, as I was organizing a team that had come over for the week from England. So don't think I am lazy. Or if you do, don't let it be for that reason.

I think I want to make a renewed effort to write on here a bit more. These last weeks of few posts have been a direct result my sidebar that was causing fustration. Now that it has come into submission I hope to visit more regularly.

there it is.

SIDEBAR HAS BEEN DISCOVERED!!! It has been hiding down below, at the bottom of the page. Now, how the heck do I move it back up top. Any experts out there...?

This could be a big step in returning to writing on Blog. Cheers Becca for the heads up.

not pleased

im upset with my blog right now. the sidepost bit has not appeared for the last two weeks. thus i have been giving it the silent treatment.

has anyone seen the sidebar bit? you know, with all the extra information that is found on the side? if you have, could you please let me know. i don't know what to do, and without it, i don't feel its the same blog.

so until we get this remedied, i don't know if i can seriously consider writing serious posts. maybe it had something to do with that message box i put in. there must have been a virus which used the comment box to infiltrate everything, and then stole the sidebar. evil.

well im going to not write anymore as protest.

for the time being.