And Some More Stress

When I say that life has been full of constant stress for a very long time, believe me.

This one turned out alright, all things considered. If you can believe it, he walked away.

He was driving on a road that has a nasty curve at the bottom of a real steep hill, when his throttle stuck. He managed to make it through the curve, almost. There's a flat spot and a second part of the curve. At that point he fell off the road and over-corrected, which might have saved his life. At that point, it dug in and he barrel rolled at least 3 times. No time to turn the engine off, unfortunately. Going down that hill in neutral, you can hit 80+mph by the bottom. You have to be on the brakes the entire time.

Luckily, he rolled into the middle of the road instead of into the 60 foot ravine on the other side of the road. That would have been bad.

He's a very lucky boy and we are very thankful that it wasn't worse. He was able to walk away and only had minor scrapes and bumps to show for it. He wasn't decapitated by the axe floating around in the back of it, nor was he hit by the spare battery he had in it. He managed to recover most of his gear, including his Tough Book, which true to it's advertising is fully rugged.

Looks like the engine and tranny survived, as well, so he'll be able to pull those and put them into the truck that's sitting right behind his truck.

There's a lot of blessings from this tragedy, the biggest of which was that he walked away. I am, however, just bone weary and numb. They say God doesn't give ya more than you can bear, but a lot of days, I'm feeling a lot like Job. I don't know how much more I can take. I'm ready for some fun instead of all this crap.