Life's been busy the past week and a half or so effectively quashing any creative abilities I have.
Tuesday of last week, the wife and I drove down to Richmond, to look for a place to live. We had one house in mind and a bunch of townhouses and apartments. Upon our arrival we went and did a drive-by of the house before we called the landlord. It was a great house, from the outside, in a nice neighborhood, on a cul-de-sac, with a fenced in wooded backyard.
We called the landlord and left him a message, then we went around looking for the townhouses and apartments. I won't go into details about all of the ones we looked at, except I will say that the first complex we went to was ghetto. I got discouraged because this is not what I had envisioned moving my family into. It all worked out though because a few hours later the landlord called us back and we ended up renting the house.
The ride home was just lovely. I had been up for 40 hours, about 24 of that sitting in a van. Eventually, I had to let my wife drive. It's nothing against her, I just have a phobia about letting other people drive me. I couldn't sleep, but later on I attempted to drive again. Bad idea. Hallucinating while traveling at 70 mph is bad. The only other time I started hallucinating while driving was during a trip to Texas. That time I saw Jesus and Mary dancing on the highway. This time the windshield was fogging up and I could only see through a tiny hole. Of course, it wasn't really. I stopped at a rest area and reluctantly let my wife drive. I crashed hard and slept all the way until we got on 495.
So incase I have been out of the loop. Are you guys moving to VA for sure?
ReplyDeleteyou haven't been out of the loop, i just haven't been forthcoming in sharing that info with people.
ReplyDeletebut to answer your question, yes.
I've only ever hallucinated while sitting in class in college...have blacked out a time or two while driving though....once while driving a van load of freinds back from Hampton Beach...luckily the stretch of 101 I was on was striaght and the vans alignment was good....what's CWC gonna do for left center when you move to VA?
ReplyDeleteok, i'm stumped. who are you r34p3r?
ReplyDeletei dont know what they'll do. i know i'll miss it though.
and i just figured out your little moniker means reaper so googling it didn't help.
ReplyDeletewell r34p3r started out as my monkier for Halo and FEAR but I figure it might work for blogging someday though I haven't started one yet...it's on my to-do list, along with getting my home PCs on a backup cycle and making an IBM box I have into a web server (using Linux and Apache). That's all taken a back seat to finding a new job...anyway i'm 2 desks to the right and 3 desks up...at least it's gotten cool enough that I don't roast when they close the breakroom doors....
ReplyDeletewe are also losing our leadoff position which took over 2 seasons to fill.
ReplyDeletelooks like adam underwood is gonna have to play this year.
I know a guy who will play
ReplyDeleteyup. i told adam he better buy a glove, because he's the new left center fielder.
ReplyDeletehow did you find my blog r34p3r, were you trolling through the firewall logs? hehe
ReplyDeleteI may be a BOFH at times, but I actually stumbled upon your blog rather innocently. I was doing some searches on TalkDigger to see if anyone was saying anything about the company's product and on page 2 of the search I found your Oh Crud post from March. You have a great writing style which makes your blog fun to read. I hope you keep up with it in VA.
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