Whirlwind trip there and back again

Something I have, unfortunately, needed to do is a trip back home in the middle of a long trip visiting family.

Weirdly the first one that I did turned out very well. After getting up at the crack of dawn I headed home. I hit up a local renaissance festival that I was passing . I had thought that I would just go home the next day so I stopped at it for 1-2 hours I think? Then I finished my trip home for my laptops power cord.

I was home for about five minuets more before I couldn't handle the boredom and I just... Drove back the same day. I pasted by a terrible rain storm on my way out and then I was back at my families house. 

All in all the sun was up the whole time for my round trip. Sun rise at the start and then sun down when I returned. I was going the speed limit. There was no rush but I know how long the drive Should have been and with the stop at the renaissance festival? Even with out it I should have been getting back int he midnight to 2am range.

Not the first time weird things have happened while driving. 

I'm still looking for the exist that doesn't exist for the city whose name I don't know that also doesn't exist. I can find the area were the On Ramp to get back on the interstate had been. It went from a one lane construction-narrow road back to a three lane. But there is no on ramp there. Every time I have passed by since I look and there is nothing.

Also the random cryptid in the tiny town with the stop light that google now no longer takes my rout past. Both were separate one way trips.

Have I gotten a sash cam? Yes. Does it have a memory card big enough for my whole trip? Nope! But maybe next time.

I'll point out that big rig truck drivers are legally not allowed to drive more then 8 hours a day since around 2008-ish. I was working at a moving company at the time and it was a Big Deal. You never realized how dangerous it was and they got into a LOT of trouble if the messed with their logs.

2am thought

 

2am thought.

I just realized after almost 30 years that an old house we lived in had an electrical problem in one plug.

It was the plug we had the tv plugged into.

The older tv started not turning off. It wasn’t just that the vacuum tubes were holding a charge, which was probably the first sign, but the screen was still lit.

You could hear when it was doing this because it was so loud that people who couldn’t and had never heard an electric current before were able to hear it. (Several of my parents friends were startled to find out their kids weren’t joking about hearing the tv/electric) I had showed my parents that it was still ‘on’ one weekend by having them stay in the room and you could almost hear the hairs on the back of their neck standing up because they got so creeped out by it.

There were always the last ones to go to bed and they used a switch on the next floor or at the door to the next floor so they never really had a fully dark room when turning it off.

This was the late 80’s or early 90’s so no plasma or LED tvs.

So after one weekend of it just having the screen glowing and seemingly never fully turning off? They decided to save & get a new tv.

After a few years it started having the same thing happen. We never noticed that the old tv didn’t have trouble in the play room.

Then we moved to CA and got pets and never noticed that neither tv was having trouble.

We moved again NY and still hadn’t noticed.

I literally figured it out today at 2am.