Well, we made it to Dayton, OH before we got totally hosed by the snow and had to stop for the night. Then we proceded to get snowed into the parking lot until the people stranded at the hotel all dragged their trash cans out into the parking lot and helped dig each other out becuase the hotel was too lazy to actually have a plow show up. So at 12:40 (20 minutes before the “We’ll have to charge you for another day if you’re here past one” deadline) we got free of the snowbanks and got onto the interstate.
The interstate west from Dayton was like a frozen version of Mad Max, almost totally empty, blowing snow, no real visible pavement and bunches of cars off in the ditch and on the median.
Eventually we did make it past where the snow had hit and we were able to get back up to speed, but after getting off to a late start and spending hours going so slow we decided it was best for us to stop again rather than drive the last several hours when we were both on the verge of collapse.
So on xmas morning we rolled into the drive at Andrea’s parents’ house and we’ve been here since and it’s been quite nice. (Okay, except for the argument everyone had with Andrea’s grandparents about their plan to go to Mexico for some sort of sheep stem cell miracle cure treatment of some sort. But more on that later, I suppose.)
Tomorrow the adventure begins. Andrea, Bailey and myself will be driving from Maryland to Missouri. Should be interesting, updates if I can get online for them, otherwise, happy holidays.
I cobbled together a Firefox search plugin to search Google Desktop (for all you windows types out there) and figured I’d share it. In a perfect world I’d just toss a link up here and let everyone install away, but since Google Desktop takes a couple of query string variables that seem to vary by machine it has a couple small things that need to be tweaked in order for it to be used. So later on i may try to put together something in PHP to make things on the fly instead of making people download everything and edit things by hand.
Being the lucky bastard who has to change the water bottle on the cooler sucks.
Thank you. It was thoroughly pleasant to find out this was archived somewhere.
I need to be getting other people xmas presents not spending money buying albums i used to have on tape before the fire.
Goodbye Dimebag Darrell
I still think changing his name from Diamond Darrell to Dimebag Darrell was friggin ridiculous.
We have to protect people (from pro-homosexual drama)
I really want to get Pansy Division to play on this guy’s front lawn.
…but you should be aware that finding this just sent me into a pseudo-tourette’s seizure episode that I could have sworn was going to kill me.
Dungeons & Dragons 2: The Elemental Might
Someone please shoot me now.
Well, aside from an “excited puppy feels the need to pee when meeting new dogs” filled trip to Petsmart there’s not a whole lot to report for the weekend. We blew saturday around the apartment doing pretty much nothing.
I was actually pleasantly surprised by the “Sci-fi pictures” version of Anonymous Rex, it was not a suckbomb like pretty much everything else the sci-fi channel makes for itself (or airs on the weekends).
Sunday we went on the aforementioned Petsmart trip and later on to the market (which sucked, when did it become a sport to see how many people you could block from getting around?) and then back home where I whipped up some of my homemade mac and cheese.
I tried playing Galaxies again for a little bit (I think the last time I had logged on was a month ago) and was bored to tears, again. Then went out and watched some part of The Life and Death of Peter Sellers with Andrea. Then bed, falling asleep during [adult swim] and now we’re here again.
Andrea wasn’t feeling well so she left work early and picked bailey up from the vet’s office. She says that Bailey’s back to her spazzy little self which I am very happy to hear.
