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Altus Oklahoma

12:07 am Saturday 30 June 2001

Wende and I are in Altus, Oklahoma at the cabin with Stacy and Rodd and Karston. This is Big Daddy's cabiin, and has been in the family for a long ass time.

Wende painted that big tractor wheel sandbox. Picture of Wende and her dad on his motorcycle. That's the hill where Wende popped her first wheelie on motorcylce. That's the hill where Wende had her first accident on motorcycle, and she pushed it all the way to here and decided not to push it up the hill so she left it in a neighbor's yard and got her Meme.

On the way up here, I drove from Corsicana or so through Ft Worth and we ate iin Witchita Falls, which is good because I've always wanted to go to Witchita Falls, but.... Witchita Falls is nothing like I had hoped. I was looking for lots of forest and a river with waterfall. It's just a small Texas city with highway construction and a Wendy's with the Frosty machine broken.

We hit approximately one million bugs after it got dark as we crossed the state line. Gross!!!!

Arrived at Uncle Mark and Aunt Joy's house and watched the last little bit of some 15 year old home videos, the funniest of which was seeing then-8-year-old Brian break dancing to Wende singiing Billie Jean. He was flopping and falling all over the carpet.. So funny! Especially as he kept flopping to no music and then, 'Brian, it's over.'

dreams

9:03 am Saturday 30 June 2001

dream

In a schhool, Mr Bandecca was teaching, and I carried Wende on one hip as if she were my baby, and was all, this is Wende, my girl.... friend' jut wanted you to meet her. and someone else was still teaching class so mr bandecca came out and showed us the latest project he was working on, which was still a big secret and it was having the Harlem Globetrotters come do a demonstration thing / movie at the school and I was trying to cover up what he was working on to keep it a secret and Bryan Beck came up all, "what are you doing?" And I was all, "can't show you" but he said he already knew that the Globe Trotters were coming, and the there was a huge crowd all around me as we were sitting outside in an assembly type thing listening to some guy talk about a movie he was going to write and the main character was a bad guy from previous movies but he was being played by a different actor this time, and the announcer was all, "he wasn't bad enough in the first movie, but he realized that with a more round face and larger nose, he could be the terror of the world" as the new actor didn't look anything like the old actor. And then someone was tapping on my shoulder, but I didn't know who so I got up and went over to the side of the group and looked back and it was my brother Fred and I motioned for him to come over, and he motioned, "no you come over here" and I walked closer to where he was and he wanted to show me a project that he was working on about something he was doing at school, and then the movie advertisement was showing the bad guy giving noogies to the protagonist in the movie and he turned out to be the same actor as the male protagonist in the movie so he was all, Yeah I'll be doing two different parts, but I can do it. and I woke up.

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previous dream

met Barbara bush and Tammy's mom and we were going to follow them to somewhere. I gave BB a hug and she was sad that her son didn't win again,..........

(went and took pictures of Karston and Wende and Stacy, then Rodd and I went down to the lake to chill and talk.. (dream is vaporized from my brain))

tangie wedding day

4:50 pm 30-6-01

Wende and I just went for a hike around the yucca plant near the cabin. So much fun! Wende got pissed though because of somethiing. I'm not sure what. She got apricot between her toes. Maybe that was it. I think I maybe pushed her too hard to hike and she got mad at that.

But I certainly had fun and I won't forget it!

Leaving the cabin for Tangie's wedding soon.

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Ceremony was beautiful and small; the wedding reception was greatly attended. I danced like a maniac and hopefully got some people out on the floor. Or maybe I scared them away. But a few people asked if I could teach them how to dance like that.

"I just fake it; I don't know how to dance. Just let the music move you."

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Stopped by a car wash to wash all the bugs off the front of Wende's truck before we bake them on while driving back to Houston.

While I washed the bugs off, Wende got a monster bug bite on her shoulder. She said it really really hurt and she almost cried. Wow. Kinda like my scorpion sting 3 years ago. The bite had a red dot in the middle about 1 mm across and the welt was about 1 mm high and 1 cm across.

Back at the cabin, I put some baking soda / water mix on the bite, which I have heard will draw out the poison. It seemed to help. This morning the bite was gone, except for the red dot.

This morning we met and Meme and BigDaddy's house, then ate at the cafe inside the grocery store, where I talked at length with Dennis and Kimmie, long-time friends of the family.

Dennis is quite smart.

On the way out of the store, Wende saw that they sell dry ice. We bought a cooler and 3 small blocks of dry ice and went across the street to Braums and bought 1 gallon and 3 pints of Braums ice cream, a pint of which will go to Sharri at Wende's work.

Sharri and Wende like Braum's ice cream.

12:35 pm Sunday 1 July 2001

On the way home now, I'm teaching Wende the Alphabet Game that Fred and I know! She has successfully recited up to P, and I just taught her Q and R. So awesome!

We just stopped in Vernon, Texas to let Wende change into her overalls.

As a result of this trip, I am more in love with Wende than ever before. I've been having an incredible great time with her!