It has rained here for 2 to 2 1/2 weeks straight. Every day some rain. May is historically the rainiest month but that hasn't held true this year. Global warming isn't all about heat, it's very much about a change in patterns. It's supposed to be in the 80s and dry in June in West Wendover. Instead it has been in the 60's, windy as hell, and wet. It's been very unusual.
Tuesday, that pattern broke and it was warmer so I spent most of the day working in my yard. I mowed the lawn, smoothed out some dirt around my palm tree (that's what I call it) that's been on the back of my mind all year, did some weeding, trimmed all but 2 of my roses and ran the weed eater around my back yard and around most of my front yard.
The spool ran dry when I had about 10 feet to go.
I went to the local hardware store to see if they had a replacement. No luck. They said that if I could give them the make and model of my weed eater, they might be able to get a replacement by Thursday. I went to lunch with Tia and the sargent for the county on the Utah side. The sargent said that if I couldn't find the part, he would get one for me when he was in town and get it out to me on Friday.
On the way back from lunch, I stopped at the hardware store and gave them the make and model. The make is actually a Weed Eater. I thought that was good but they can't get a replacement through their distributor. I gave the make and model to the sargent.
Then I decided to check Amazon.com. I have prepaid 2-day shipping so I thought it was worth a check. Bingo, they have the part. I did the 1-click order and had it on the way. I called Tia and told her to pass the word on to the sargent to 10-22 (cancel).
That all happened yesterday.
Today, around 5:15, Jeff (my UPS guy) stopped outside. I was installing new lights in my garage and heard the truck. I went around to the front door in time to see him running up to the door. I opened the door. He handed me the package with a "Here you go" and ran back to his brown truck.
What has brown done for me lately? Between Amazon and Jeff (my super UPS guy), they delivered my new spool of weed eater twine the day after I ordered it.
How absolutely cool is that? I told me wife and we just smiled in amazement.
We live in such a wonderful time, as far as technology goes, and it reminds me of my favorite story when this technology was sinking in. It was back before the time of text messaging, where much of the technology was fairly new.
I was sitting in my cop car on a completely quiet week night running radar and IMing Rick on my in-car laptop in between the occasional car. A song came on the radio that I thought he would like. It just sounded like something that he would enjoy. I asked him if he had heard of it. Nope.
A quick search of the net and I found the video. I sent him the link. He said that I was right and that he did like the song.
Another search and I found the CD on a site that accepted PayPal. I didn't have a debit card back then. They weren't as common as they are now. I ordered the CD and had it sent to his house.
All from my cop car, while watching for speeders.
It totally blew my mind where technology had taken us. Now, we are 10 years past that point and it still just amazes me when you can run out of twine, go online, and have it on your doorstep the very next afternoon.
I love the time that we live in and look forward to what life has in store for us in the future.
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