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My business has been overloaded this week with requests for field work. The sudden 4-day hard freeze has been responsible for burst water pipes all over north Texas. We get calls to do mandatory surveys before any work can be performed. My techs were all already booked solid for the day when another call came in requesting an emergency survey. I've been doing these surveys for decades, and one more shouldn't have been an issue. But a couple of months ago I had a full knee replacement, and I haven't been released to do field work yet. But just doing one more today wouldn't be a problem. Right?

But I remembered a promise I made to someone who means a lot to me. I promised her that I wouldn't do anything that would risk the rehab of my knee. She promised to come and kick my ass if I hurt myself or even risked hurting myself, even by accident.

I asked myself, "Self, she wouldn't really come halfway across a continent to do you bodily harm if you accidentally made your knee worse by doing something foolish, would she?"

She hasn't lied to me yet, so the answer I heard was a resounding Yes, she would come kick my ass if I did. And there's no way I'd even try to her about it. (She would know. She's spooky like that.)

SO good sense overcame my ego and the job is postponed until tomorrow when my younger and more agile technicians can get to it.

And I live to write another day.

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Vodka
12:55 Jan 20 2024

Choosing life was the smarter choice!

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