Yesterday morning I met the Benner’s and Farrell’s for breakfast at Perkins. We had a nice breakfast and visit.
Then I ran to BSW Thrift store to drop off a few bags of Mom’s clothes. After that I decided to make my annual trek up to the Tech bookstore. Jennifer and I would always go up once a summer. The streets to the campus are still torn and Marcus Daily is still on vacation. I had to snake around to get on Campus and park in the Library parking lot and then walk up to the bookstore. One thing at the Tech Campus there is a lot of hill climbing.
I did not find anything to buy at the bookstore, so I was heading back to my truck and got the idea to swing into the Library to look at our Master Thesis’s. I don’t know why I got that wild hair but I did. Well I found them listed in the old card card index but did not know where they were within the Library.
I stopped at the information desk and asked. Well they are all digitized now, so they logged me into a computer and showed me how to look them up. I have hardbound copies back in Mesquite, but to be honest I don’t think I have cracked mine open for 30+ years. The librarian also said they have them have them in a archive and if I needed a hard copy they could have them brought in.
Anyway, we are both still in the system. I took a photo of Jennifer’s acknowledgment page and sent it to Elaine, Jeanne and Janice.
I then came home and started again working on cleaning my trailer out. Colleen took a few of the items for her trailer and I put together another bunch of stuff to go to BSW Thrift store (mainly clothes of mine) and some into trash. It is amazing how much stuff you can store in a small area. I also have a box of stuff that I will be keeping and shipping to Mesquite.
At about 9:30 Colleen’s dog Lola started scratching on the Kitchen window. So I went out to get her to stop doing that and then went and put her and Colleen’s other dog Candy in her trailer (Colleen was in town for a women’s mining association group dinner). As I finished putting them in the trailer I noticed something strange on the West side frontage road. There was a dude just sitting on the side of the road. I went in the house and got a set of binoculars to check him out. Well he was just sitting on the road. Then he saw me and got up and jumped the fence and crossed the Interstate. He hollered to me asking if we had any water. I told him I would bring some to him.
So I grabbed three bottles of water out of the house and jumped in my truck and drove down closer to the interstate to give them to him. I asked him where he was going. He said Helena, but he had only been able to thumb down one ride. Well I told him that he best keep walking and also that he may be getting a visit from the Jefferson County Sheriff’s office. He thanked me for the water and the he went back across the Interstate and got on the West side frontage road again. I found that very strange so I had Dad dial the Boulder Sheriff’s office and I talked to them and they were going to send up a deputy to see what the story was. I had watched the guy as I was talking to the dispatcher and he was slowly walking North on the frontage road. However, it was quickly getting dark and I lost sight of him. May of been just someone, down on their luck, but it was weird how he was walking. Anyway I think a deputy drove over that way at around 11:00. He had to come from Boulder so it would have taken him about that long to get here.
Anyway it is never dull in the out in country.
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