At the Franklin Fountain, an old fashioned ice cream shop (down to the dress and hair of the servers), taliabear , mmsword  and I started the day with ice cream sundaes.  I got "The Lightning Rod"..


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Coyote is taking his fair share out of us, for moving to some place so nice, it seems..!   But its certainly not all bad..

• The Car Moving company, carting over
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A Badlands Must!

Day Four:

Starting from the holiday in outside of Saint Paul, in Rochester Minnisota, I drove out to a wonderful place called the Pinecone Resturant.  Heavy accents, furry propoganda (to be scanned!), and Multi-Pound Cinnamon Rolls which will defeat any who oppose them were experienced!  (I lost.. but was so happy.)  Just before the ( Read more... )

Food Gas Lodging~!

Day Three:

From Ohio, breakfast in the Holiday Inn Express.  Good, but no biscuits and gravy!  Very unfortunate.  But we made due, with cinnamon rolls.  I drove route 80/90 through all of Ohio, stopping at the last rest stop for gasoline and break.  Then, midway through Indiana, I stopped for break at a combined Hardees/Fazolis/ ( Read more... )

Prelude:  Two visits to my family in New Jersey, to prepare the car, then to say goodbye to everybody.  In between, a visit from
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Birthday weekend, and 
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Scavenged a computer out of the trash at work. Pentium 4, 2.4ghz, 256 megs of ram, 40 gig hard drive, relatively modern. My dad's computer was dying, and he had just mentioned, so it was a perfect catch! It had been tossed because of a faulty CD-Rom drive, it seems, but putting a spare in was no problem. I wiped it clean and put a new install ( Read more... )