Entries this day: Bye_Columbia Erik_and_2_jennees amelia bowling movies pretty_princess_bed

Bye Columbia

10:24am CDT Saturday 19 October 2002

In my mind is my own rave music. I just bought buy 1 get one free tall thin boxes of crackers that I twisted around like glo sticks in my own little rave while in line at OscoDrug here in Columbia.

3068.15 miles since Dallas. 146441 miles total under Scott's belt(s).

Leaving for Springfield now.

1:04pm

I'm well on my way to Springfield, and pulled off where I saw gas for 99 cents per gallon! But the station is closed, apparently out of business. I wonder why..

I just realized that I don't know where in Springfield is a Kinko's. I had looked it up at Kinko's in Columbia, but my browser crashed last night while I had a bunch of windows open reading articles via news.google.com and accidentally clicked on something and the browser died after it couldn't connect or something silly. Anyway, the point is I will actually have to ask someone where I can find a kinko's so I can get in touch with Amelia to get directions to her crib. It's all good.

Oh, 3202.1 miles traveled since Dallas, and I'm in Buffalo, Missouri, listening to 96.5fm broadcasting from Springfield.

1:49pm

3235.5 miles traveled. Just spent a lot of the last 30 minutes talking with Marcel (!!!) and hearing all the recent awesome stories of kids' growth (Adrien understanding Lego transmissions, Lori noticing his haircut after no one at the office did, Brittney (sp?) growing her vocabulary by the day).. we were about to hang up and then took a five minute discussion of world politics and such. I'm enjoying having been reading up on news stuff.

I'm parked now at a gas station where gas is ... $1.429 per gallon. I'm going to ask if they know where a Kinko's is.

Erik and 2 jennees

4:47pm CDT Saturday 19 October 2002

I'm in Springfield and Amelia and Erik's house. Erik was unimpressed with my Mac until he really started looking at it. I told him I wouldn't tell anyone, so um, nevermind.

He got a phone call and hung up saying, "soon there will be two Jenni's here."

"You can't go wrong with two Jenny's," I agreed.

At this very moment there are 2 Jenni's sitting on Erik and tickling him, as he tries in vain to squirm away. Wow, how can one guy endure such torture?

hahahaha

Erik is a big guy. Each Jenny is about half his mass. What a funny sight!

5:35pm

Now, Jenny wants Erik to do errands with her and Jenni wants Erik to magically have already downloaded some anime for her. Jenny was pouting gloriously while Jenni was griping that he wasn't ready to go yet.

"It's not fair for both of you to be mad at me at the same time!"

amelia

5:00am CDT Sunday 20 October 2002

Amelia ordered pizza and when we got it, found that they put parmasean cheese on the whole thing, so she went back and got a whole 'nother pizza with no cheese at all.

Yay Amelia two for one pizzas!

I'm tired.

bowling

4:58am CDT Sunday 20 October 2002

Holy shit it's five am. Um, we went bowling tonight and had a great time. I got 9 pins down by pushing the ball while kneeling before the lane. Good stuff.

Christian and Andrew did well, including lots of spin and between the leg throws and lots of variations. Man I'm tired.

movies

5:01am CDT Sunday 20 October 2002

Tonight we watched Deep Blue Sea and Dead Poets Society. I had seen DPS, but not DBS. DPS was better. but Erik certainly liked DBS.

He and Amelia argued about its merits. Amelia went to bed before we started DPS.

I'm going to bed now too. Know why? I'm tired.

pretty princess bed

5:07am CDT Sunday 20 October 2002

I get to sleep in Amelia's old room tonight, on a Pretty Princess Bed. I'm sure this style has a name other than that, but it's basically shaped topologically like a couch with with iron sides and back to keep me from falling out at night. Very pretty and very princessey.

Good night. I'm tired.