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I'd love to say that my day was a roller-coaster ride of chills, thrills, spills (but no kills), but alas, aside from a trip to the local Wal-Mart, I was confined to the room. Certainly better than a Turkish prison, but not by a significant amount.)
Monday,
13 October, 2003 |
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| 6:21am (MDT) | The alarm didn't go off, but Tubby and I both sort of woke up in as though there was an alarm. Odd. The first lights of the morning weren't bad to look at, though. |
| 7:14am | His Largeness waddled out the door to the pretense of work, leaving me in the room. I figured I'd make a day of it by napping. |
| 11:02am | The housekeeper woke me up, but only briefly. Due to water conservation measures, unless you specifically ask, no new sheets for several days (which is fine by me). So, Irene was in and out, quick like bunny. |
| 11:11am | I'm going to log back onto my pillow (http://www.zzzzzzzzzzz.com/napping/good). |
| 5:08pm | I hear enough noise at the door to determine that the Lord of Lard has come back to the room. I managed to smooth out my feathers and look presentable before he barged in, quite rudely and without knocking. |
| 5:11pm | He makes up for it (in his mind) by taking me to the local Wal-Mart. As though going to that giant blue icon of suburban malaise was going to help... but I was willing to keep an open mind. |
| 5:18pm | And so it begins. As an aside, that has nothing to do with anything else, I've heard the overly tall human types lament the altitude of this fair city. Apparently, several have noticed the very dry nature of the place, and the run for Visene and lotion was paramount. I personally noticed some unusual chaffing between my dorsal feathers, but it wasn't anything I was going to really make much noise about, really. It's also a place where you ought to drink plenty of water to keep hydrated. True to form for an unsung genius, Tubby stocked up on Diet Pepsi. No water -- just Diet Pepsi. |
| 5:50pm | With only 72 shopping days left until Christmas, it's important that you shop early to ensure you won't be without your own miniature Wal-Mart store this holiday season |
| 5:56pm | Does this mean the sign guys have a wicked sense of humor, or am I not getting something about this whole gig? |
| 6:32pm | We've left the Wally-Mart and stopped at Wendy's (what did you expect? We are away from home, after all), before wandering back to the hotel... |
| 6:41pm | ... where I found that stupidity knows no bounds. Here, apparently it's necessary to point out that glass cleaner (a generic Windex, if you will), isn't to be consumed. |
| 7:17pm | With the sounds of the new Vertical Horizon CD playing, and not totally inspiring to dance on the desk like Snoopy on Linus' piano, I settle down to work on my book. |