Road Trip Update - Part Dos
9:40 AM - Austin, TX
Location - Hacker House for Wayward Girls
I have arrived!I am safe! I am exhausted!
Quick list of things:
Miles Driven - 973
Hours Driven - 15 Hours
Times Lost - Urm… twice… Once when pulling off on 2990 instead of 290 for a sec… woops… and then overshooting to get to the Hacker House of Wayward Girls.
Times Pulled over - 1
Times I thought I was getting pulled over - 2 (but the second time was a false alarm. Damn Flaming Lips Song)
Times I got a ticket - 0! Just got a warning.
Number of SMS msg received - 18 (Mostly dodgeball msgs!)
Number of SMS photo msgs sent - 38 - Sent to both Flickr & Slide. If you want to get a sense of the virtual roadtrip thing, subscribe to my slideshow and follow along. I’ve been sending an obscene # of phonecam pix while driving.
Times I pulled off the road to pee - 2
Times I surpressed a reason to make an off color joke - 3 (While passing Rocky Rim Road and Nutty Brown Road… not to mention the truck stop title Boracho Station)
Times I saw cows - 19
Times I saw sheep - 4
Times I saw an Ostrich Farm - 1 (The thought passed my mind to purchase an egg.. but then again I realized my car and drive would be warm and long and I decided against this)
Times I wished something would not be named after Lyndon B Johnson within a 15 mile stretch - 413
Times I had to reboot my phone - 382340983492833942
Times I began to question my relationship with Dairy - 14
Times I prayers - 3 - because I’m confident that “oh gawd oh gawd oh gawd is there a bathroom coming up” totally counts.
Times I cussed at my laptop - 10 (dropped it… currently not recognizing the airport…grrr - apple store appointment this pm)
Times I called an exboyfriend to chat - 18 (Just 1 exboyfriend in particular. It was the desert. The call kept on being dropped. Honest.)
Beverages Consumed - 2 Diet Cokes, 1 Doctor Pepper, 2 Orange Juice, 1 Water, 2 Power Waters,
Beverages that exploded in my lap while driving - 1 - Damn. You. Doctor. Pepper.
In the list of things that I should definitely not have been doing while driving:
- Brushing my teeth
- Taking Photos
- Looking up at the moon roof
- Reading bloglines
- Snorting down a bunch of spicy cheetohs and chex mix so quickly that I nearly cough up a salty spice ball through my nose
To note:
My stay at Casa Molly was completely delightful.
Nap!
Cat!
Wine!
Roast Beast!
More Wine!
Ice Cream!
More Wine!
Mischief!
Secrets!
Delicious Chats!
Extraordinarily long sleep!
Wifi!
And a place where they make fresh salsa customized to your taste preferences tableside for you!
I! Am! Full! Of! Delerious! Joy! And! Exhaustion! and Exclamation! Points!
If you’re in Austin, Cuba Libre For Drinks @ 8:30 Pmish I believe. That’s today. Monday.
Dinner plans in flux. Contact Ms. Hummina for details and whatnot as I’ll be completely passed out.
Smoochitos!
(Insert massive quantities of ranting verbiage here) Glad you’re having fun, though!
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