I will drive 500 miles (x4)

[thewayne]

We're on the road to Virginia and BlingFest! Made it to Amarillo, probably be somewhere in Tennassee tomorrow night. Hotel has WiFi, so that's cool. I think we're about 1400 miles away from VA at this point.

Poodle was a bit of a pain. Somehow both Russet and I forgot Celeste's food, not to mention treats and water/food bowls. We're down in Alamogordo eating before hitting the road when Russet realizes this, so we swing by the feed store where we normally get our food. Buy a ten lb. bag of food and a bag of Greenies (treats). Russet gives Celeste one Greenie and we head back to K-Mart and buy two bowls and a small box of Dove cookies. We get back to the car and Russet is on one side of the car fixing food and water, her harp is blocking her from seeing Celeste. I go to the other side of the car and ask Russ how many Greenies she'd given the dog.

Turkey Poodle (a new official AKC breed) had pulled the bag out of the back of the car and chewed through it. We don't know how many she ate, but there were three on the back seat in addition to the one she was actively chewing on. So I pick up the Greenies, put them back in the bag, and put them semi-covered in the very back of the car.

We feed and water the poodle and head off to the truck stop to (a) mail some bills and (b) pick up some rocket fuel (Starbucks Frappucino). My cell phone rings, it's Michelle (my fibromyalgic renter). Russet goes in to mail the letters and pick up the rocket fuel. I hear a strange noise behind me, and the poodle has gotten the Greenies out of the very back of the car once again.

I deal with that and further cover them with a shirt. Russet returns, we hit the road.

Advance a few hundred miles, we stop for dinner at a "Pizza Hut Italian Bistro" in Tucumcary, NM. We eat, we go back to the car, and find the empty Dove cookie container in the back seat. Turkey Poodle(c) got three cookies. Fortunately she's a good-sized poodle, right around 50 lbs., and has not seemed to suffer ill effect from it.


SUCH FUN!

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[deborak]

OK, if any of my cats disappear while you're here, I'll know what to blame. :-P~~~~

I have shop vises in the woodshop, should you need to clamp her down!

[deborak]

And, your box from Staples was just delivered. :-)

[(Anonymous)]

I've searched your last 300 posts, good sir, and I still don't know what BlingFest is. Google tells me it's a skateboarding event, but I'm guessing you're not bringing prototypes to a skater party. Is it the nickname you've assigned your vacation or something?

[fastlearner.livejournal.com]

Sorry, that was me.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

No prob. Bling!Fest is a private party organized by a friend, an ex-Buffalo now living in Virginia. We arrived today and played the revised and greatly expanded version of Karaoke Screams. It went stunningly well. Then again, everyone except me were more than a little drunk. Vast quantities of singing and merriment. We also got in a play of Zombie Cafe, five total players, also went swimmingly. Hopefully we'll be getting in plays of Waste of Celluloid and a new atrocity that I'm thrusting upon the public: Cows Chasing Astronomers.

I'm a sick man, Matthew, a sick man!