Happy Tuesday, all.
Morning Mr JWacko, glad you could join in it is slow as an impacted turd around here this mornng.
Indeed. Where is everyone? Guess I could talk beer. Had a new one Sunday, "City of the Dead" from Modern Times. Coffee beer, but the beans were 'aged' in bourbon barrels and not the finished beer itself. Kinda interesting but nothing I'd look to get again.
Talked to Dusty Dave for a bit on the phone last night... so there's that.
Beer is always a good topic but i did not try anything new for the weekend, kind of cleaning out the seasonal stocks so they don't go flat, etc....
Hope Dusty Dave is doing well, another one we have lost sight of around here but understand he has a workaference issue or such.
He's doing as well as can be hoped for, I guess. His job has him in Phoenix four days a week, so he spends half his life living there, half in his 'real' hometown. Forget how far he said the drive was but it was significant. Pain in the ass but sounds like the company is taking care of him.
That commute would be about 3 hours for him; maybe more depending on what part of Phoenix metro he's going to. And boring as fuck-all if you've seen Picacho Peak more than once - which he assuredly has.
I did the run from Tucson to Peoria for a week once, and it about killed me.
He lives a decent trek south of Tucson, too. Amado... so looks like 40ish minutes just to Tucson.
Yup. General rule of thumb is 90 minutes to Phoenix proper once you leave Tucson north city limit. Add the 40 from Amado to the southern city limit, plus some to get from the south side to the north side on I-10, plus some for traffic through Chandler and Tempe, and you get 3 hours or worse. Ugly run if you're doing it 4 days a week.
He's doing it once a week, the company set him up in an apartment in Phoenix. I guess that kinda makes it better? Kinda like a four day business trip every week, though.
As his Dustiness says, he lives in a dusty little border town. Thanks for the update Joe. How's life wit lil' Wacky and the Wackette?
Pretty broad definition of "border town". He's 30 miles to the border.
Of course, given the rate of illegal people, substances, and vehicles coming through, there is something to the argument that for all intents and purposes he lives in Mexico.
