valarltd | On the Same Page, but different paragraphs--Thurs, May 27

We Left Mom's at 8, after a nice bacon, egg and biscuit breakfast. Obi and Bunny had coffee. I held off on my caffiene until we hit I-35. It took 13.5 hours to make 750 miles.

The CD player on my boombox was hooped, but we got the car one to stop skipping, so we had Leslie Fish, David Bowie, and the Bangles. tuuuuuuunes!

We stopped in Iowa on I-80 at the World's Largest Truckstop. And there was free ice-cream at Kwik-Smart. (Mudd insists the Super America at Cheyenne, Wyoming is larger)

We piddled some, and did a breakneck 12 miles an hour for about 20 miles in Chicago.

jkb called because she was starting to worry. i reassured her we were only about an hour out, and we'd been caught in Chicago rush hour.

We got in about 10 PM, checked into the hotel, and I dropped my zines in the Reading room. We unloaded and went shopping at an enormous Meier. Bunny managed to turn her ankle being silly.

I was going "ack" about grocery prices, and promised to take

jkb to Aldi's (which I didn't) so she could see what i was used to paying. But $20 worth of groceries made it through the weekend nicely.

She introduced me to the delight known as a "Slow Screw": Orange juice and sloe gin. Lovely.

We crashed about 2, since we had stuff to do before the con started.