Investigation Day!

OMG.

First Ray gets called into work at the last minute. But we think, no big deal ... he's off by 5pm, and that gives us a 2 hour period to get to Stockton, which is only an hour away.

The trouble happened because I gloated at being sooo ahead of schedule. I know this. And I know better than to gloat. But I did it anyway and the universe, as usual, smacked the hell out of me for doing it. *sigh*

So let's see. We took off on time. We hit UGLY UGLY UGLY traffic. Nasty bad evil traffic.

So it looked like we might be you know, 1o-20 minutes late. So I call before we are late, you know because that is the polite and courteous thing to do.

Turns out I'd have been pretty accurate ... had I been on the right freeway.

Oh yes. Seems I somehow ended up on the WRONG flipping freeway. Stockton is interesting - I-5 and 99 run parallel to each other and Stockton sort of sits in the middle of both of them.

So if you get on the *wrong* freeway - as I did - you might find exits named the same, but when you get onto them the directions "no longer workie". Of course you never realize it at first. Oh no, because that would be easy.

So we drove alll the way down Wilson Way (which I hope I never see again in this lifetime) to Dr. martin Luther King Blvd.

On the way we almost ran over some guy in the middle of the street clutching his chest and having the most painful expression on his face in the intersection of Bradford and Wilson Way. Scared the shit out of me! Hope he was okay, the ambulance came and scraped him off the road maybe 2 minutes later.

We saw hookers, drug deals, gun deals, people partaking of a variety of drugs, and man, I could not get out of there fast enough. Anyways after 2 hours of being lost in a really ugly part of Stockton, I somehow figured my way out and where I needed to be (I seriously have NO clue how that happened, it was practically magical!)

Anyway we finally got to where we were supposed to be, and they were nice enough to let us jump on the end of the investigation.

I didn't feel like there was anything there, but that's cool. More like a dry run was the way I viewed it, lol.

Nothing of note happened that I was aware of really, but should be interesting to see what was recorded during the evidence review meeting!

The way home was uneventful and disgustingly easy and quick. LOL!

In any case, it was an adventure and I am glad that we finally got one under our proverbial belts!! :)