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Brrrrr

8:00am CST Sunday 29 December 2002

During the night I woke up and turned Scott on and ran the heater for about 10 minutes to warm up, put on my hoodie and went back to sleep.

This morning I had dreams that included climbing through a haunted house with YRUUers, and some of my old high school friends, including Lynda, my first real girlfriend.

(dream)

We climbed up through some narrow suspended catwalk things, twisty and dangling like prepositions. We'd have to step over gaps in the air to get to the next catwalk. Joana Olsen and someone were in front of me at first, but then they took a wrong turn and Ed Lerner and I passed them as they worked out a way to get back on track.

Okay, I'm going to emerge from my sleeping bag coccoon (sp) and roll out. The idea of a hot shower with scrub brush at home overpowered my urge to stay bundled up and try to sleep more to escape the cold.

5868.7 miles traveled since Dallas.

8:20am

Just passed a rest area 2 miles sign. I was about 3 miles away from it. Not that they have warm bunks and showers, eggs, toast, jelly and blueberry muffins, but they do have restrooms.

brb

8:27am

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5872.5 miles traveled.

Computer, why don't you whip that thing out and play us a tune?

(Farside, with cowboys arond a campfire; one of them has a grand piano in his back pocket)

10:29am

Turned over 6000 miles during the song "A Warm Place" by Nine Inch Nails. Now we're on "The Downward Spiral" from the same album at 6016 miles, climbing up a steep hill. 45 mph in 4th gear. Maybe so slow cause I'm typing. Hmmm.

Oh, Sally, I want to send you the song "Eraser" by NIN. It also has a wacked out beat that you might find interesting or even enjoyable....

10:56am

Bang I'm back in Texas. Fatboy Slim took us across the border. Tori Amos live (bootleg?) mp3 of "Precious Things" carries us across the open plains of the Texas panhandle. I've never been up here before. "The Panhandle" had always been a mystery to me. What's it like to be that far north and still be in Texas??

Oh, I am reminded this is the song that Tori Amos totally blew us all away in concert at Cullen auditorium "with their nine inch nails and little facist panties tucked inside the heart of every nice girrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrl" holding the last word as she turned on her piano seat away from grand piano and mic 180 degrees to harpsichord and mic and finished out the word and the song.

Woah.

The best part of that was during her rotation, the audience (as all good Tori audiences) was silent, and we could hear Tori with no amplification. Just Tori's pure voice. Like she was right there in my heart singing only to me for that moment.

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

12:13pm

Hmmm. I'm in Amarillo, but I apparently passed Commerce, which I intended to take to Kinko's so I turned south on 87 to just skip it altogether. However, when I checked the map, I needed to take 287 and not 87, so it's a good thing I checked soon after I exited.

Thanks to Texas' motto "The Friendly State" a guy saw my map, and hollered (we do that in Texas) "whereya trying to go?"

"Dallas!" we were about 30 feet apart at our respective gas pumps.

And he confirmed how to get there, estimated the number of miles to the correct exit, told me how to get off 87 to the loop around DFW, then to 30 and I'd be there. How friendly can one cat be?

Then I asked someone else where Commerce is, in case I had not passed it, but would still see it by going further on 40, and he pulled out his Amarillo map, found the shortest route from this gas station to there, which includes a couple block drive on... Mockingbird. It's a sign. Though I gotta backtrack a bit, I'm goin'; that's all there is to it I'm fuckin' goin'. (*)

(*) - Jules in Pulp Fiction

Plus my battery is low from playing mp3s. Gotta get charged.

Kinkos in Amarillo

12:36pm CST Sunday 29 December 2002

I'm at Kinko's. Got a picture of the street signs at intersection of Janet and Mockingbird. Close.

All of the workstations have the ethernet jack, but only one is actually wired. That's the one that I'm on.

Leaving Amarillo

2:06pm CST Sunday 29 December 2002

So excited! There are going to be so many people at Janette's for this week long party! wow!

I just talked to Colleeniebeanie; she's going to be there tonight as well!

Whoooo!

Aight; I'm leaving now so I can see youse guyses soooper sooon!!

Oops

2:28pm CST Sunday 29 December 2002

Oops. Sorry Scott. I forgot to get your oil changed in Amarillo. I promise an oil change will be in your future soon after we get to Dallas. You can do it!

(he's actually got 18 miles before it's due)

6139 miles traveled.

Success

5:35pm CST Sunday 29 December 2002

At a rest area now about 135 miles from Fort Worth on 287. I just called Josephine and Janette and chatted with them a bit; Josephine told me a funny Skyler story and said she's heard of a new joke, the Pink Car joke, which is a new one for us; Janette and I are going to try and see Eight Mile again, and Two Towers together.

Got disconnected, though I could hear her wishing me well, then I turned on "Rabbit Run" and ripped through it pretty effectively. Rock.

6:07pm

Woo. For some parts of "Rabbit Run" I can articlate the words faster than he does in the album version.

iTunes music now. About 104 miles from Fort Worth.

Zooomin.

8:21pm

Home. 6499.8 miles traveled. 155000 (exactly) miles on Scott.

House looks beautiful with green christmas lights on the bushes, matching the green lights inside on the tree, and the green porch light that's always been there..

colleen

11:36am CST Monday 30 December 2002

When I first was chillin' with Colleen in the kitchen, I was all, "look a raccoon!" and pointed to the kitchen floor. So funny that she looked, not that anyone wouldn't have looked, but because she has several raccoon stories from her semester(s) at school in Corpus Christi, from raccoons in the stairway to raccoons trying to come steal her food, to raccoons coming to scrounge through the trash while she's chillin' outside, to almost running over a raccoon in the parking lot, to raccoons taking her car for a joyride around the city.

Oh, wait, not that last one, but still.

"And the raccoons are freakin' huge like they sleep in radiation fields and get all huge and stuff."

onions to onions

4:26am CST Monday 30 December 2002

After chatting with Colleen for 1.5 hours on AIM, which was great because at first she was feeling blue, and by the end she was feeling joyful, and funny because we were sitting basically next to one another in Bibby Kitchen, and were breaking new artistic ground with combining technology and real life, we played Apples to Apples with Josephine, Meg, me, Skyler, Heather, Paul, Colleen, Hillary all playing. Good stuff. It was the first time I had played.

During the game, Josephine said something really funny that I was going to write down if I remembered it.

Colleen and I tied; we kept being either the top two winners or bottom two losers in almost every round.

After the game, after some hours of discussion that had already happened, I paid Colleen $5 to take a bite of an onion. It was less gross than expected. Then I took a bite of it and got my five dollars back. Plus I got a free stick of gum out of the deal.

Chatted with Katy B-H, and now it's bed time. But I don't know where I'm going to sleep. Gotta scope out a space.

Good night!