In Bridgeville, Pennsylvania. Watching an episode of Dirty Jobs in which the sound man gets this frightening bite from a monkey ( Read more... )

Amtrak from Indy to Toronto is an overnight trip, since we're in Amtrak limbo and you have to go to Chicago before heading out towards Buffalo and Toronto.

It's $600--each--to fly.

I am NOT taking Greyhound.

Hybraxi it is!

Chas Addams died 20 years ago tomorrow.

Stayed overnight in Indy since we were at Mary, Queen of Peace both Saturday night and Sunday morning. Not much exciting on TV, but I did get to squeee over an American Airlines commercial (because Maurice La Marche does the taglineMy allergies are acting up today--when we got home I took a couple of ( Read more... )

Got a late start to the day due to being out until some ridiculous hour the night before. Finally left the hotel and stopped at Brown's Chicken & Pasta to grab some lunch. The woman at the counter was friendly, knew the menu, and seemed to give a shit, and the food (I had a chicken sandwich and Charles had an Italian sausage) was really good ( Read more... )

Also, apparently Bill Murray made his jump and all went well (he's that tall?) and also Ecto-1 is awesome on the big screen (I love big old boaty cars... we saw a Ford Galaxie yesterday!).

As mentioned in the textLJ post yesterday, the GPS took us on the scenic tour of the northeastern corner of Indiana, including Gary and East Chicago, after we were forcibly booted off I-65 due to construction. We actually got to our hotel during daylight hours, which is unusual for any trip we undertake, and are only a few miles from a park and ( Read more... )

Apparently if you want to go see a taping of Wait, Wait--Don't Tell Me you have to get the tickets as soon as possible... the August 14th show is sold out. We learned yesterday that Carl Casell isn't going to be there for a few weeks anyway, so... meh. You'd have to have a pretty awesome panel to make up for either Carl or Peter being out. So we ( Read more... )

I ended up having to return the truck today, so I'm here in Saginaw for the night. I suppose I shouldn't have stayed up this late catching up on LJ, seeing as I'm so far behind on sleep ( Read more... )