We went to Omaha. The zoo keeps getting better and better. You can see the desert dome from the highway, and it looks like it belongs in a sci-fi movie...or something starring Paulie Shore ( Read more... )

Since the_lucky_nun gave the go-ahead, I'm going to say "fuck it" and go to new York for CMJ, anyway. Plain tickets jumped something like $250 bones to fly to Minneapolis overnight. Literally - last night, it was $128; this afternoon, $400. Ridiculous ( Read more... )

So, there's this $215 credit I've got with Midwest Airlines from my aborted CMJ trip last fall. I was thinking of going to New York for CMJ this October, but it appears that I'd either have to stay in a hostel by my lonesome, which just looks like trouble, or stay in a hotel, which even at the cheapest would run a grand for the week ( Read more... )

Due to a desire to return home at a decent hour tomorrow, we're staying tonight at the same motel we stayed at Friday night. It'll cut several hours off tomorrow's drive, and thus return us to Lawrence sometime before bedtime, as opposed to close to it ( Read more... )

Hey, we're going out of town. To Illinois. To visit the_lucky_nun's freinds, old haunts, and generally cause pollution with the thousands of other cars this holiday weekend.

So... yeah. Barring a trip to Starbucks, you probably won't hear from us. Which is as it should be.

If you could see what surrounds me right now, you'd be astounded... cd cases, stuffed envelopes, pizza box, the case for Knocked Up, stickers, and a ton of sticker backing and cd wrappers.

I'd clean it all up, but all my storage shit is in the truck, and it's locked, and the_lucky_nun has the key. So, that's all got to wait until later ( Read more... )