Upcoming Road Trip
On Sunday morning I'll start my annual trip to Arizona to spend the week around Christmas with my family.
Usually I make phone posts while I'm on the road. This time I may post more to my Twitter page than call LiveJournal. The main advantage of using Twitter this time is that the posts are text so they won't be mangled by the speech-to-text engine LJ uses. The disadvantage is it's yet another website ... There is a way to have my tweets show up here automagically once a day, but I don't feel like taking the time to get it set up at the moment.
I cleaned out my car today and found three CDs I'd been missing, all They Might Be Giants albums: No!, They Got Lost, and Apollo 18.
During the recent Woot Off, a Sansa e260 4GB MP3/video player came up for $30. Mike was ordering one for himself and I asked him to get one for me too, since they'd come to the same house, this way we'd split the shipping. They arrived yesterday and we promptly put the open source firmware RockBox on them. Mine is loaded up with a handful of audio books I've been meaning to listen to, totaling around 100 hours of audio, much more than the 26 hour round-trip drive.
While I was cleaning out my car, I also ran a load of laundry. All that remains is to pack my suitcase.
I've tried to get as much done today as possible because tomorrow will be spent hanging out with friends followed by a birthday dinner.
Hopefully I'll be able to get some good writing done when I stop to eat on the trip. One of my favorite parts of a road trip is stopping at non-chain diners and restaurants, little out of the way places like the Firehouse Diner duaiwe and I stopped at in May (what state was that? Were we going to or coming from Chicago?) or the Krazy Moose in Wyoming Mike and David and I stopped at on the way from Portland.
Usually I make phone posts while I'm on the road. This time I may post more to my Twitter page than call LiveJournal. The main advantage of using Twitter this time is that the posts are text so they won't be mangled by the speech-to-text engine LJ uses. The disadvantage is it's yet another website ... There is a way to have my tweets show up here automagically once a day, but I don't feel like taking the time to get it set up at the moment.
I cleaned out my car today and found three CDs I'd been missing, all They Might Be Giants albums: No!, They Got Lost, and Apollo 18.
During the recent Woot Off, a Sansa e260 4GB MP3/video player came up for $30. Mike was ordering one for himself and I asked him to get one for me too, since they'd come to the same house, this way we'd split the shipping. They arrived yesterday and we promptly put the open source firmware RockBox on them. Mine is loaded up with a handful of audio books I've been meaning to listen to, totaling around 100 hours of audio, much more than the 26 hour round-trip drive.
While I was cleaning out my car, I also ran a load of laundry. All that remains is to pack my suitcase.
I've tried to get as much done today as possible because tomorrow will be spent hanging out with friends followed by a birthday dinner.
Hopefully I'll be able to get some good writing done when I stop to eat on the trip. One of my favorite parts of a road trip is stopping at non-chain diners and restaurants, little out of the way places like the Firehouse Diner duaiwe and I stopped at in May (what state was that? Were we going to or coming from Chicago?) or the Krazy Moose in Wyoming Mike and David and I stopped at on the way from Portland.