So, 13 hours and 45 minutes after leaving Champaign (thanks for putting me up, mirkowuff!), I got in last night at 7:15 PM. Gah. Remind me not to drive that distance solo again anytime soon. fuzzytoedcollie, you have my respect! It was nice to see some of the Chambana area furs Tuesday night, like siegferret, rcfoot, quasiskunk, lycaos_wolf, hartreefox, Wolftail, and a couple of folks whose names escape me.
I came home to a fabulously clean house and a delicious steak dinner. Takaza is such a wonderful husband! He really busted his butt for me, and it was very much appreciated.
And so, back to reality today: laundry (lots), catching up on class work, MFF website stuff, entering in memberships that I got at the staff meeting, and other good stuff. Tonight we do a little car shopping (need to check out the Ford Escape and the Honda Element – yeah, the latter is uglier than sin, but it gets good ratings from Consumer Reports and it’s cheap!), buy a scanner, and stop by our favorite gelato place to chat with the owner.
Yeah, the Element is fugly, but it’s a compelling kind of fugly. Like owning your own bread truck. Or a bulldog you can drive. Anyway, I’d consider an one of those if I were in the market and didn’t have a 50 mile round trip commute each day.
Oh, and it’s a pity you can’t hold out– supposedly there’s a hybrid Escape on the way, but I don’t suppose it would be wise to be a guinea pig and buy Ford’s first hybrid in its first model year.
*thhbttt*
After 22 hours and 950 miles, I came home just now to a stale-smelling house, had to light the hot water heater, and no-one was here to greet me (must get another dog soon!) At least, the chinese take-out was decent 🙂
Welcome home, and glad you made the trip back OK!
mmmmmmm! Gelato 🙂