Interstate 80 east of Reno-Sparks in the Truckee River canyon is a moving banquet of oddities.
Yesterday morning, out the kitchen window, I saw a tire bouncing in the westbound lanes.
Yes, a tire, all by itself. Blue sky visible through the center. It bounced tractor-trailer high, then lower twice more before it disappeared in (rough estimate) four seconds.
While I wrapped my mind around that, I realized there was a metal framework stopped on the freeway, whatever it was attached to hidden by the guard rail.
Trucks and cars slowed down for five minutes, but did not bunch up or stop.
Little over an hour later, a flat-bed tow truck stopped ahead of the framework. A truck with a camper shell holding the framework, maybe a canoe rack, was hauled onto the flat-bed and off it went.
I'm glad the bouncing tire didn't cause a disaster. But it would have been cool to watch, from a distance.
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My laptop's home. The display on the monitor is finally close to what I'm used to. My cheap-o Word won't run, so I downloaded Pages, free. My cheap-o Quicken won't run so I bought a subscription for a year to the cheapest offered. I immediately ran into a High Sierra bug ... it would not open the Quicken .DGM, until after a full restart.
Congrats to the evil genius who thought up making people pay every month or year for software we used to be able to buy and own forever. Or, until the OS changed.
Bastard.
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