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I love living in the Space Age (I know we live in the Information Age, but the Space Age is concurrently building to a crescendo):
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In other news, just got back from Thanksgiving with my Dad in Minneapolis. The drive up there was HELL, as in Hell has frozen over - and not just because the University of Kansas football team is at least #2 in the nation.
Yes, even though the forecast was for dry roads and snow ending by 3:00pm, the roads from about Lawrence to, oh, say, Minneapolis were either covered in ice or obscured with blowing snow. Except for about 50 miles north of Des Moines, Iowa. I must have repeated the mantra, "I'm so glad I didn't try to drive the Crossfire" about 50 times along the way. I rented a car, instead, for less than $20/day with free unlimited mileage. I calculated that it was cheaper to do so than add miles to my car, plus about 1000% less likely to go off the road in case of snow. Even so, the large-ish front-wheel-drive sedan did go a little sideways in northern Missouri when I first discovered that the roads were icy.
At least I wasn't one of the people in the ditch facing the wrong way, or rolled-over a number of times down the slopes around the road, or nose-to-nose in the middle of the road with another car, or so on. Yikes, it was ugly. I hope that all of you out there who drove to visit family made it there and back safely.
But - oooh! - shiny new Titan pictures! (Oh, and it was really nice to visit my Dad and see my Grandma again.)
Chris
Click the image to see the story.
In other news, just got back from Thanksgiving with my Dad in Minneapolis. The drive up there was HELL, as in Hell has frozen over - and not just because the University of Kansas football team is at least #2 in the nation.
Yes, even though the forecast was for dry roads and snow ending by 3:00pm, the roads from about Lawrence to, oh, say, Minneapolis were either covered in ice or obscured with blowing snow. Except for about 50 miles north of Des Moines, Iowa. I must have repeated the mantra, "I'm so glad I didn't try to drive the Crossfire" about 50 times along the way. I rented a car, instead, for less than $20/day with free unlimited mileage. I calculated that it was cheaper to do so than add miles to my car, plus about 1000% less likely to go off the road in case of snow. Even so, the large-ish front-wheel-drive sedan did go a little sideways in northern Missouri when I first discovered that the roads were icy.
At least I wasn't one of the people in the ditch facing the wrong way, or rolled-over a number of times down the slopes around the road, or nose-to-nose in the middle of the road with another car, or so on. Yikes, it was ugly. I hope that all of you out there who drove to visit family made it there and back safely.
But - oooh! - shiny new Titan pictures! (Oh, and it was really nice to visit my Dad and see my Grandma again.)
Chris