A Bad Night Went Good

I was dreading the play tonight. Only 5 tickets sold as of yesterday.

This play is too much work to perform for a few people.

I picked up the piano player on the way to the theater and mentioned that I was dragging. He was too. So with trepidation we went on.

Much to our surprise, the house was almost full! Yippee!

And they turned out to be our second best audience.

I do love a good audience. I was fun tonight.

On to another topic...

As many of you know, we bought another truck. This one has the new diesel technology.

Toyota calls it D4D and others call it diesel on a rail. These are high tech engines that are smokeless and odorless, and the run quite and start fast. All new stuff for diesels.

And, they are NOT available in the US. In a moment you will wonder why.

I ran a full tank of fuel through the truck and calculated the fuel mileage.

Before I tell you, I want to let you know the type of driving I was doing.

All the miles were short trips into town. No highway miles at all. About 10% of the miles were in 4 wheel drive and another 10% were in first gear. Rarely did I get out of 3rd gear. And the terrain is hilly with about 20% rough gravel roads.

So you get the picture. This is low fuel mileage stuff.

And this is a big truck. A crew cab pick up.

I got 28 mpg.

Can you believe it?!

I am estimating conservatively 40 mpg on the highway.

Doesn't it piss you off that this kind of fuel economy is available everywhere else in the world and not in the US?