The Chronicles of My Trip

I arrived safetly last night in Escondido, California at my new house. Although it's not really my house, the bedroom in the front corner of the house is.

I departed home on Sunday night to John & Mary's house in Indiana. From there, I left early the next morning and was on the road for 15 hours, driving through Illinois, Missouri and to western Oklahoma (Clinton, OK).

The next morning I left Clinton and traveled for 17 hours. Through Texas and New Mexico and to the western side of Arizona. Evidently, Texas and New Mexico have a monsoon season during this time of the year because I drove through a lot of it. I shouldn't say that I drove for 17 hours, I did stop for one hour at the world's largest meteor crater. An ginormous hole in the ground in the middle of nowhere, and by nowhere, I do mean nowhere.

Day three started in Kingman, Arizona, about 10 more hours of being on the road. Slight "issues" or "problems" with the engine temperature which were solved with a short stop to cool it down at the top of the mountain and then again to by coolant. And a stop in Irvine, "spoiled brats in Irvine", to drop of some furniture for a mutual friend.

Then it was on to my final destination. A nice jaunt down the pacific coastline and then inland to Escondido. Unloaded the truck and started unpacking my boxes, which could turn out to be a long term project because I don't like unpacking.

iPod Delight

It's been nearly 3 weeks since I've had my iPod and have only begin to discover its possibilities. For instance, I am currently (other than blogging) watching "Saturday Night Live: The Best of Will Ferrell." The skit playing right now is Ferrell playing Robert Goule, sitting in the convertible feeding the bighorn while staring him down, priceless.

Before this I was exploring other options on my iPod. I have several games, including brick, parachute, solitaire and music quiz. I also have an address book, calendar, notepad, stopwatch and a screen lock. And this is all in addition to the 300 pictures that I just uploaded onto my iPod which have great resolution and clarity.

Celebrity Jeopardy!! Sean Connery, French Stewart and Burt Reynolds (Turd Ferguson).

I wait in eager anticipation until I can upload episodes of "The Office," "Arrested Development" and many other already great classics.

-"'Take her easy, she's my lady and that's what I said.' Hey about that? That was good!"

-"No, no it wasn't."

Garth Brooks with the devil, does it get any better?