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Home again. Exhausted, but home. Dad was outsmarted by an alarm clock that automatically adjusts for daylight savings, so we woke up an hour earlier than we had to. Loads of stuff happened. I'll get around to posting the fic I wrote in the next couple of days, I hope. I've got to catch up on webcomics and blogs and fics and everything.
For starters, this was not a good trip when it comes to avoiding minor injury. The hotel we stayed in the longest had beds with really sharp corners, and I kept ramming my knees into them. I have bruises there now. And I got a mysterious burn on my hand too, I was just sitting in the car waiting for Dad to finish at the bank when all of a sudden my hand started hurting and hey look! Small burn-like injury. Friday night we were walking to the hotel from the train station and there was a curb that was higher than normal, so I didn't lift my foot high enough and tripped. It was one of those slow-motion, time to think "Oh man this is gonna hurt" falls. It was blowing really hard so I was leaning forward just off-balance enough to send me sprawling. First I landed on my knees, then my palms, then my chin. I didn't fall that hard, and nothing bled until we got to the hotel and I dabbed at my chin with the nice white hotel washcloth. But I was still pretty scraped up. Then on Saturday I was apparently still feeling clumsy and was tripping over my feet all over the place. I also clipped an ashtray, one of those skinny rectangular ones with the round holes in the top and the really sharp edges. So, red mark on my thigh. And I forgot good walking shoes, so my feet did a fair amount of hurting.
And I lost my mp3 player. Turns out it was broken though, so no big loss. I've been thinking that my headphones were dying really fast, but it turns out it was the headphone jack coming loose from the computer chip. Anyway, on the flight east I couldn't get any sound out of it. I also discovered that there is a function to turn on and off chapters in audiobooks. I will admit to misplaced rage at Audible due to the fact that the default is off, and I had no idea what was going on. Why does it even have that function? Then I got it going on the drive north, but it blipped out on most larger bumps. After that it vanished, so I put some of my stuff on Dad's player, including some Cabin Pressure with the intent of listening to it on the way back down. Only see Dad's player is really old, and he's never updated the software, so it doesn't have an audiobook section. Aaannndd it doesn't just slip audiobooks in with the rest of the music, at least nowhere that I could find. So, I couldn't get to it at all. And then it turned out that the rental car speakers had developed a loose connection somehow, and died then came back on us three times.
Overall, the trip was equal parts fantastic and frustrating, I just didn't realize how amazingly fantastic the fantastic bits would be and how aggravatingly frustrating the frustrating bit would be. Watched J. Edgar. Greatest brilliant movie, can't recommend it enough. I want to hug Clyde close and protect him from the Holmesian social retard that is Edgar.
Anyway, fun story that has been relayed to me time. When we got Holmes, they had a second rooster at the pet shop. The guy who bought him ended up not able to keep him, so this other rooster ended up in an elementary school classroom. He goes out with the kids for recess every day. He even lines up with them apparently, and when they don't line up he starts dancing around them like Holmes dances around Watson sometimes. And when they leave him inside, he spends the whole time crowing. Sometimes when the kids are paying too much attention to him the teacher puts him in his cage and so the kids feel sorry for him.
Anyone who says chickens are just dumb birds has clearly never met one.
For starters, this was not a good trip when it comes to avoiding minor injury. The hotel we stayed in the longest had beds with really sharp corners, and I kept ramming my knees into them. I have bruises there now. And I got a mysterious burn on my hand too, I was just sitting in the car waiting for Dad to finish at the bank when all of a sudden my hand started hurting and hey look! Small burn-like injury. Friday night we were walking to the hotel from the train station and there was a curb that was higher than normal, so I didn't lift my foot high enough and tripped. It was one of those slow-motion, time to think "Oh man this is gonna hurt" falls. It was blowing really hard so I was leaning forward just off-balance enough to send me sprawling. First I landed on my knees, then my palms, then my chin. I didn't fall that hard, and nothing bled until we got to the hotel and I dabbed at my chin with the nice white hotel washcloth. But I was still pretty scraped up. Then on Saturday I was apparently still feeling clumsy and was tripping over my feet all over the place. I also clipped an ashtray, one of those skinny rectangular ones with the round holes in the top and the really sharp edges. So, red mark on my thigh. And I forgot good walking shoes, so my feet did a fair amount of hurting.
And I lost my mp3 player. Turns out it was broken though, so no big loss. I've been thinking that my headphones were dying really fast, but it turns out it was the headphone jack coming loose from the computer chip. Anyway, on the flight east I couldn't get any sound out of it. I also discovered that there is a function to turn on and off chapters in audiobooks. I will admit to misplaced rage at Audible due to the fact that the default is off, and I had no idea what was going on. Why does it even have that function? Then I got it going on the drive north, but it blipped out on most larger bumps. After that it vanished, so I put some of my stuff on Dad's player, including some Cabin Pressure with the intent of listening to it on the way back down. Only see Dad's player is really old, and he's never updated the software, so it doesn't have an audiobook section. Aaannndd it doesn't just slip audiobooks in with the rest of the music, at least nowhere that I could find. So, I couldn't get to it at all. And then it turned out that the rental car speakers had developed a loose connection somehow, and died then came back on us three times.
Overall, the trip was equal parts fantastic and frustrating, I just didn't realize how amazingly fantastic the fantastic bits would be and how aggravatingly frustrating the frustrating bit would be. Watched J. Edgar. Greatest brilliant movie, can't recommend it enough. I want to hug Clyde close and protect him from the Holmesian social retard that is Edgar.
Anyway, fun story that has been relayed to me time. When we got Holmes, they had a second rooster at the pet shop. The guy who bought him ended up not able to keep him, so this other rooster ended up in an elementary school classroom. He goes out with the kids for recess every day. He even lines up with them apparently, and when they don't line up he starts dancing around them like Holmes dances around Watson sometimes. And when they leave him inside, he spends the whole time crowing. Sometimes when the kids are paying too much attention to him the teacher puts him in his cage and so the kids feel sorry for him.
Anyone who says chickens are just dumb birds has clearly never met one.