Tooting the Maintenance Horn

After hitting the "check e-mail" button on my hotmail account roughly 374 times this morning, I was pleasantly surprised to see an e-mail actually appear from Josh this afternoon. I had not heard from him via e-mail since Friday, so I assumed they were "out and about," but at those times, you do wonder about . . . A LOT. Here is an excerpt from the e-mail that I received from Josh today . . .

"I put roughly a thousand miles on the truck and did not have one problem. Excellent maintenance, if I do say so myself. The truck's life expectancy is only 15,000 miles and we reached well beyond that on this trip, but I am not holding my breath for a new truck. Plus, I have put so much new stuff on this truck, I don't want to give it up. haha. . . . I am really tired-just getting my laundry turned in today was a huge chore. haha. Tomorrow is another early day. . . Look in the Syracuse paper for the column on us - there will be a picture of guys from my platoon holding an American flag."

Can you tell who is in charge of the truck maintenance?

I discovered a couple of weeks ago that Josh passes his time by looking at new vehicles. I somewhat knew that he was looking at them, but didn't really know how serious he was about it until one day a package of brochures arrived in the mailbox (surprise!), which I then sent to him and he received in a package on Tuesday night . . . "I really like it more and more. It looks even more sporty and less grocery getter than I thought. Plus, all the people in the brochure look like me, which means I picked an age appropriate automobile. I can't wait to drive something smaller. haha." Age appropriate automobile!

It was interesting . . . the way he wrote his e-mail, I could tell that he was tired, without him even needing to write that he was tired. A lot of short quick sentences and things seemed to jump around a bit. I will keep my eyes on the look out for the picture and will post the link once it is up.