I don't exactly know what it means to be ready. A cake when the oven timer goes off? Am I fully baked, or only half-baked?

He noted that Fischbein was apparently knocked unconscious in the wreck but Savitch had struggled to escape. Fischbein may have missed posted warning signs in a heavy rainfall and he drove out of the wrong exit from the restaurant and up the towpath of the old Pennsylvania Canal's Delaware Division on the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware River. Almost Golden: Jessica Savitch and the Selling of Television News Avon Books 1988.