Yes, I know, this blog has been shockingly quiet lately. For the last week, this was because I was on a vacation in Arkansas. Since everybody seemed to like the San Diego post, here are bulleted highlights of this latest trip:
- Continental still hates me. Seriously.
- Howard came with me and very patiently put up with my nice but occasionally deranged family. I owe him a lot of trips to Buffalo.
- I think he experienced a little culture shock. For example, he asked one of my cousins how long the earth has existed, to which my cousin replied “since Jesus made us.”
I wanted to take a whole series of “you know you’re in Arkansas when you see this” pictures (like of signs at the airport stating that the bathrooms are tornado shelters). But the above picture is as far as I got. They are really serious about their Ro-Tel down there.- We ate a lot of good food. For instance, I introduced Howard to Shipley’s donuts, which beat the pants off any northern donut. Man, I could go for a Shipley’s donut right now.
- I got to spend a lot of time with my grandma, which was really awesome. One thing we did was to go to Sam’s Club, where she got to drive a motorized cart:
She is hell-on-wheels in that thing! I had to run to catch up with her. Apparently, on a previous trip, she took out a whole display of garden seed packets and left the scene of the crime! - I don’t know what the photographer of this shot was drinking:
but I think it proves I got my eyes from my grandma. Maybe my nose too? - We saw three movies during the week: “Away we go”, “Public Enemies” and “The Hangover”, which was the best, hands down.
- We also watched the first episode of Warehouse 13, which seems cool, and I began reading the Southern Vampire Mysteries. Does this mean that I am becoming (gasp!) a science-fiction fan? I blame Howard.
- It was really hot in Arkansas, but people kept saying weird things like “wow, it sure is cool outside.” Also, it was really bright:
- We also met many, many nice doggies. They deserve their own post. Stay tuned.
12 Jul 2009 at 4:36 pm
Better be careful… It starts small. You watch a few episodes of Battlestar Galactica… You read a couple of fantasy novels… Nothing serious, not Tolkien…
And the next thing you know you’re arguing about the canonical status of the Timothy Zahn Star Wars books with the other players in your LARP.
15 Jul 2009 at 8:36 pm
“Nice but occasionally deranged” . . . hey . . . I’ll take that as a compliment! And I wanted to let you know – it’s supposed to get down to 67 for a low tonight – awesomely cool!
15 Jul 2009 at 9:06 pm
67 for a low, eh? Are you going to stay up till 4 to experience it?
According to Howard, it was in the 40s here last night!