In which I’m sitting here waiting. I just spoke with the mechanic. He says he hopes to have me “back on the road by noon. Earlier, if we can manage it.” Check-out at the motel is eleven; if I’m very lucky they’ll let me stay an extra hour so I don’t have to wait in […]
In which who the hell knows with these late model vehicles. My alarm went off at the ass-crack of dawn: seven in the morning. I’d been up ’til one, so I hit snooze twice. When my brain quit throbbing, I rolled out of bed and was about to shower when I realized I don’t have […]
In which my Sunday trapped in Rawlins is turning out to be pretty neat, really. Standing in the motel’s parking lot, I can see a lot of nothing. Some blacktop roads – the one out front is five lanes and dumps onto I-80, but for all its size is lightly traveled – some businesses of […]
In which the jeep died. Yeah, so, I was coming down a fairly steep grade, see, surrounded by big rigs and the wind blowing like crazy, and suddenly the jeep started coughing. Really hard. THUMP! THUMP! It was like it was trying to jump into overdrive but not making it. I slowed down from 75 […]
In which Friday totally kicked ass, dudes. Yesterday my mom bought me four knitting patterns from Fiber Trends (including this one omg how cute is that?!). This makes me very, very happy. (It also means I’ll be knitting felted plush toys for the next five fuckin’ years, but there are worse things!) If that weren’t […]
In which I’m so lazy I haven’t even been knitting. On the birthday, we went out to Red Lobster for dinner. It was really good. Sunday I never even got dressed. I laid in bed and watched DVDs on my laptop all day long (the VLC media player totally rocks, btw), and ate way too […]
In which I check in. I wrote this really long, boring entry about how the oil pressure gauge in the jeep no longer works, but decided to spare you it and say instead that it’s awesome to be at my mom’s house! So relaxing. Driving is tedious and boring and I do not understand why […]
In which I now consider myself to be a resident of the Left Coast, visiting Iowa for a week. I’m baaaaaaaaaaaaack! Back online and back in Iowa, that is. The captain of my flight out of Portland said that we could listen in to the air traffic control chatter on channel 9 if we wanted […]
In which I’ve made it! I took a commuter flight from CID (Cedar Rapids, IA) to ORD (Chicago O’hare). Then I took a big ass jet from ORD to PDX (Portland, OR) where my kick-ass baby brother picked me up and promptly took me to a dive bar so I could decompress over a few […]
In which I must be part bear or something. It’s warming up to birthday time! I can tell because I’ve been getting gifts already. (I love gifts.) Someone emailed me an entire Ben Folds album, and someone else bought me lunch via Paypal. (Fear of Pop, Vol. I rocks, by the way. I’d already had […]
