Full-Service Gas Stations: Is it Really Possible?

It was a long day today, even though all I did was take my car to the garage across town, get picked up by a friend, spend the day doing laundry, put my flannel sheets on the bed, and not a whole lot else, but I am tired. Oh, yes, I did ride the bike for an hour and got a little reading done on the bike. But mostly I just waited for the garage to call me with the estimate and then call me when the car was ready to pick up. I am reading 'The River of Doubt' by Candice Millard. She is such a good writer. It is her first book. I read 'Destiny of the Republic' by her about James Garfield. It was great. I want to get back to Ron Chernow's 2025 biography of Mark Twain. It is so huge, I don't want to take it to work in my backpack, so I will likely only be reading it at home. When I am tired like this, I can hardly have a profound thought at all. In fact, all I can think about is how fast I'm going to go to sleep. I could go to sleep sitting here at this table, but I will sit here until my eyes are popping out of my head before I will go back there and get ready for bed. Every day I feel like I have fallen short. Every day. But instead of losing heart, I will just be thankful that I can go to sleep easily because I know people who can't. And I am very thankful for a couple of days off from work even though today was take-the-car-in-for-repairs day. Oh, and I did work on a song. "That's All I Want from You," as sung by Jaye P. Morgan from 1954. It's a lovely song. I had to transpose it, of course. So, I did that too. My body is a little iffy because of squatting with kindergartners around the giant parachute. Yeah, I'm pretty limber and flexible and all that, but my body is not used to a lot of squatting. I am just so thankful for a day to sleep in. I was anxious about this car situation for a long time, and now it's over, at least the suspense of what I was going to do. And I think anxiety wears you out. A friend has a car for sale, but I love my car, even if I have to start putting oil in it every week. I paid a pretty penny to get subframe bushings replaced, and I'm going to drive it for a few more hundred miles anyway. And perhaps the best part about today is I found out there allegedly are full service gas stations in the city where I live! This will surely help with my car's oil issues. I do not want to check my oil every time I fill up, I want someone else to do it. And I want someone else to put the oil in. It will be worth paying more for gas to have someone else check and put oil in my car. Well, now I have a planned adventure: finding out more about these alleged full-service gas stations around here. I am almost overjoyed of the mere possibility of a full-service gas station existing in this day and age. So, there you see the impossible may yet be possible. And my eyes are closing. Goodnight.