{"id":3553,"date":"2014-10-12T20:55:33","date_gmt":"2014-10-12T20:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=3553"},"modified":"2017-07-06T16:42:28","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T16:42:28","slug":"wednesday-8th-october-2014-had-it-not-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=3553","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday 8th October 2014 – HAD IT NOT BEEN …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… for the driving rain that started to pelt down at about 05:00 this morning, this would have been another one of the best nights’ sleeps that I have ever had, for I was well gone. Another one of these totally painless nights.<\/p>\n

\"motorway<\/a>Regular readers of this rubbish will certainly recognise this spec, that’s for sure. This is the motorway service area between Repentigny and Berthierville, the one that’s on an island in between the two carriageways and I’ve slept here on a couple of occasions in the past.<\/p>\n

So wide awake at something like 06:30, I sorted out a great pile of paperwork and that took me up to about 08:30. Then I headed for a coffee and an internet connection to upload everything to the web.<\/p>\n

Once all of that had been dealt with, I went off to my storage unit and carried on with part II of the tidying in there. Rather cramped it might be, but there’s enough space for three or four more large storage boxes, if I am so inclined, although it is my intention to reduce rather than increase the quantity of stuff in there. <\/p>\n

I also spoke to a couple of salesmen. One of them is selling these factory-built wooden houses and the other one is selling tents that pop up on the back of a pick-up, both of which could be extremely useful in the future as far as I am concerned.<\/p>\n

From here, it was off to the car wash where I had the very … errr … interesting spectacle of watching two of the workers fight each other. Quite animated they were too, and it gave me something to do while I waited for the Dodge. And for just $30, they made it look as if it had just come out of the showroom. I’ve always been impressed with their service.<\/p>\n

However, the tape that I had been using to hold the insulation onto the windows left all of its traces behind. That meant a trip to Home Depot and the purchase of a cheap paint scraper. Just $1:95 and half an hour’s elbow grease and you couldn’t see any of that either.<\/p>\n

At the airport, handing the Dodge in was quite painless, as was (just for a change) passing through the border inspection. And it was here that our problems really began. The strong gale-force winds had slowed down the aeroplane on its inward journey and even by take-off time for us, it still hadn’t arrived. <\/p>\n

It eventually turned up and we all rushed aboard, but someone was then taken ill and had to be evacuated and their luggage removed from the ‘plane. That looks like my connection at Brussels going up the chute and we’ll see how we sort it all out from here.<\/p>\n

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… for the driving rain that started to pelt down at about 05:00 this morning, this would have been another one of the best nights’ sleeps that I have ever had, for I was well gone. Another one of these totally painless nights. Regular readers of this rubbish will certainly recognise this spec, that’s for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3047,143,1322,4507,1360,1499,1321,1323,1383,2752],"tags":[5879,199,1624,3049,1621,1347,2560,5496,5530,1331,1625,1348,3048,1391,286,1359,1361,1350],"class_list":["post-3553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-berthierville","category-canada","category-dorval","category-eric-hall-2","category-highway-40","category-home-depot","category-montreal","category-pierre-trudeau-airport","category-quebec","category-repentigny-2","tag-berthierville","tag-brussels-2","tag-canada-2","tag-car-wash","tag-delayed-flight","tag-dorval-2","tag-eric-hall","tag-highway-40","tag-home-depot","tag-montreal-2","tag-motorway-service-area","tag-pierre-trudeau-airport-2","tag-pop-up-tent","tag-quebec-2","tag-rainstorm","tag-repentigny","tag-service-area","tag-storage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3553"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3555,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553\/revisions\/3555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}