Tuesday, December 6, 2005

I looked to the heavens and there you were.
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All of you- Hey, who wants some cookies?!

.. not tragedies.

Theme song of this post: London Beckoned Songs About Money By Machines by Panic! At The Disco [This band rocks.]

Cease your comments area party! I have returned from the depths of.. .. somewhere. Rejoice.

Anyway, yes. I spent Thanksgiving Week on a mini-vacation away from the horrid nothingness I have to do here. It was a grand time filled with harrowing driving by the part of my friend [I almost died, seriously] and merriment getting to know his eccentric family. We ended up in Hot Springs, Arkansas for Thanksgiving Day and two days afterwords. There, my friend's brother [who is Emo.. like, for real] and his Dad [who is.. something] attempted to pick up chicks. In Hot Springs fucking Arkansas. Dead serious. Nothing against the fine females of Hot Springs, Arkansas but what the hell. Needless to say they didn't get too much action. Anyway, the entire trip was quite fun.

However, I don't want to drive that much for at least four months. That was a pain.. on my mind and my ass. On my way back I had the worst luck ever. I-35 cuts right through the middle of Austin [as in the capital of the fucking state of Texas] and I got there at goddamn rush hour. What pisses me off is when you are sitting in a sea of cars and the electric sign above you says "congestion ahead". At that point in time I think there should be a law allowing you to just turn to the person in the lane next to you, get out and beat them with a stick or something. Better yet: Make the signs say "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here". I'm sure Dante would have found it's use in that situation appropriate.

I felt even sorry for this guy next to me: Imagine, I-35 is this massive highway.. four lanes for both directions. Somewhere prior to the beginning of downtown Austin there is a minor split- the inner two lanes go down, the upper two go up. The lower two are where most/all of the exits are.. and I am accidentally there since, in bumper to bumper traffic, there wasn't much I could to to persuade the people in the other lane to let me in. So I'm crawling through the lower area and the guy next to me rolls his window down and gestures for me to roll mine down. I turn down my music, do so and he asks me for directions to the Erwin Center. I really feel sorry for the guy since.. you know, I'm not -from there-. I inform him of this and he is really bummed out. Man, imagine, he's sitting in traffic where you go a mile in five hours and asking for directions. That poor son of a bitch, lol.

But Austin is really awesome. It's one of the faster growing cities in the nation, if I remember right. Houses alot of dotcom and telecommunications companies. The Texas State Capital Building is a pretty cool thing to see, too- it's actually taller than the national capital, lol. The skylines of Austin and Dallas were pretty refreshing.. I'm used to the skyscrapers we have here [which are nothing to really brag about, especially having visited New York City several years back]. Anyway, bitching about driving aside, I think that people really need to take one or two road trips a year. Scenery, skylines and such.. that's all worth the pain.

More random stories: Ever been to Waxahachie, Texas? It's a great little town about 30 miles south of Dallas with nothing there. Now, you ask, why was I in Waxahachie, Texas? Well, to tell you the truth, I was almost out of gas. And, to my great rage, there were no gas stations on my side of the highway.. and no turnarounds in sight. See, Texas has a really high population.. but tons of space. We've barely touched the space we have at our disposal and so there is -tons- of nothing between the huge cities in Texas. When I say nothing, I mean like.. nothing. Nothing nothing. Anyway, I was blissfully unaware of the fact that I was almost out of gas as I left Dallas [getting out of Dallas was kind of a bitch since, whoa, who the fuck designed your road network dude?] and I noticed this just as I was beyond the point of no return. So, I carried on.. praying that the Gods of Petrol would reward my diligent waste of money on their product with a well placed gas station. This was not to be. So, I decided, I'll go to a town- and that town was the great town of Waxahachie. It was a mile or so off of the highway but hey- I needed gas.

I was impressed, I have to say, by the things to see in Waxahachie. There was a bridge. Indeed, there was a bridge. And an employment center. Combined with the bridge I was struck with awe at the splendors my eyes had not seen before. And, beyond that, there was the Holy Grail- a Shell Gas Station selling gasoline for 1.96 a gallon. I felt such an outpouring of joy at that moment that I swear that there were tears in my eyes. I filled up with gasoline, got myself a drink- I even took a piss! All this and more in the wonderful land of Waxahachie. Unfortunately, I had a journey to return to.. so I said my farewells to the denizens of that magical place and left, returning to my Odyssey. What really takes the cake of that entire episode is that one exit beyond the one for Waxahachie [well hidden by an overpass and a forest] was an exit that lead directly to two gas stations right along the highway. I'm not kidding. The only silver lining to that is that they were selling it for 2.15 a gallon.. what a waste! Those poor mother fuckers.. you should have gone to Waxahachie!

In other news, I almost killed someones dog today. How you ask? Well it picked a fight with my car.. as I was driving it.. around a corner... at 15 mph. I would imagine that the odds are that my car would win a fight against a cocker spaniel but, you know, they don't make cars like they used to. Thankfully I stopped in time to avoid destroying someone's holiday season.. and that's somewhat good. Sort of. I guess.

Gaming blurb: Dragon Quest VIII rocks. Nocturne rocks. We <3 Katamari rocks. Zuo Ci on Dynasty Warriors 5: Xtreme Legends rocks.

I believe this may call for a proper introduction.

That's all. GTFO.

P.S. Answer to headline: INDEED.

P.P.S. Hey, let's all go to hell together. ~weeeeeeeeeeeeeee~

P.P.P.S. Conviently enough, I don't believe in hell. Safe~

P.P.P.P.S. MICROZILLA SMASH!
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