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Day

9:04am CDT Tuesday 15 October 2002

Today I'm still in Chicago, still at M's house, hosted by Steve. I stayed another night because he was so helpful with my perl problem. I'm quite thankful for that.

I need to leave by 1pm to be gone before it gets all crazy here with M and her three kids coming home. (They know I'm here, but Steve asked that I geo before they arrive.

Dreams

8:49am CDT Tuesday 15 October 2002

My dreams featured Jennifer from Paint This!, in a big new store, and a customer that was trying to hit on me or something.

Fred showed up in a later dream; he was also on a road trip, and jokingly asked me if I wanna race. I was all "sure," and held my hands side by side like two cars and then made them drive off quickly... in opposite directions.

I'm so funny, even in my sleep.

Google news

9:08am CDT Tuesday 15 October 2002

I've been relatively keeping up with some world news via news.google.com. Leave it to google to create such an incredible newsstory compiler.

Leaving for Bloomington

1:37pm CDT Tuesday 15 October 2002

I'm leaving now to visit Maggie and Molly's Mom in Bloomington.

Got a lot done on Kim's website. I'm quite thankful for that!

2:47pm

Am I a sucker? Maybe. Got hit from behind by a cab, and it bent my bike wheel a bit and the disc brake a lot. I can fix the wheel, will likely have to get a new brake. I asked for $50 and he gave me $40, saying he didn't have more, and some shit about needing to buy food and whatever.

I took a mental moment and then blessed his path. $40 and he got off easy with no ticket, etc.

2600 miles traveled. It was in bumper to bumper traffic toward dwntown Chicago so the hit wasn't very hard.

I'm smiling. I've got a tough fucking bike.

3:38pm

2625 miles traveled. I just got gas for $1.579 per gallon. I'm feeling pretty good on my trek now. Far better than last night.

Scott is at 145999 miles now.

4:05pm

I'm thankful to not be in the wreck apparently up ahead of me on 55 near 80. I'm at 646.4 miles on trip meter now. Two ambulances and two police type cars have gone past us.

Big fire engine just went by.

4:09pm

Another big fire engine just went by. I'm at 646.6 miles.

4:10pm

One lane getting by. One car in ditch, pretty fucked up, but still upright. 646.9 miles and back underway.

5:01pm

I can inconsistently almost rap all of "my dad's gone crazy" by Eminem.

2698.3 miles traveled since Dallas.

5:18pm

I don't know my mileage, but I know I'm at a rest area where I just paid $0.75 to get 2 packages of Reeses Peanutbutter Cups because the last person's cups didn't fall from the vending machine. I tried banging on it a bit, but they didn't fall, so I figured it was worth $0.75 to get two.

I've just bounced/jumped/swung/etc (dangerously considering I was carrying my laptop with one hand) across the playground here, with chipped tires that make a relatively bouncy landing surface for the ground.

Okay, I'm going to walk over a bridge behind this area and see if it's interesting back there.

- - - -

It looks pretty, with a trail winding through sparse trees, but it's a bit nippy outside and I'm still in t-shirt and shorts from today (and yesterday; no shower), so I'm going to roll on.

6:01pm

Oh my god. If I could take a picture of one (1) one thing so far, it would be this streetsign: RAAB.

Special thanks to kT for giving me that name.

I'm on 51 business now, rolling into Bloomington. Maybe I can get a pic since I know people who live near here.

bloomington

6:28pm CDT Tuesday 15 October 2002

I've just arrived at M & M's mom's house, just as Eminem's "Lose Yourself" came on the radio, so I listened to that first. Excellent.

I've been here like two minutes and she's cooking me pork chops and potatoes.

10:28pm

Kathy came over for a while (mom's oldest daughter) and chatted some. I started to get really sleepy and went downstairs to sleep, but now I've been doing email for over an hour. Got 8 messages written. Awesome.

I found out where there's a local 24 hour Kinko's. I'll go there when I wake up in 7 hours or so.