I really didn’t have anything planned for today. I do have something I’m goin to do, but it can probably wait until around noon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Other than visit Waffle House, I didn’t do a lot yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Intertubes at this hotel aren’t great. I kinda was expecting that. I was expecting they’d be a bit better than they were on the train. They weren’t, and today I got a nasty text message from my cell provider that I’m near where they start throttling me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But once I’m connected, and start writing here, the drafts save intermittently, so I can keep writing even if the network is wonky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Being here is kinda surreal, honestly. It doesn’t even really resemble what I knew from before the storm, certainly from when I was a little kid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But there’s echoes, I guess. Just nothing I can really explore on my own as a nearly-blind guy with a cane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After the storm, I stayed in one of the casinos. My brother and I had gone to a different casino to gamble some. I lost what I’d said I was going to lose pretty quickly, he was still rolling, so I decided to leave him there and go buy my girlfriend (now wife) a T-shirt. I got lost. On the street where my mom grew up. There was nothing there aside from driveways, and a few assorted front stoops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The last few times I’ve been here, it’s all been a blur between events I’d come in for, not seeing well, not feeling well, and so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Interwebs too clogged to go look around at news. Glance at previous years’ July 24ths show that this isn’t a day where I often write.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
News site has a link to a paywalled story about how cigarettes and cheap beer are getting popular as the transitory inflation grinds to a halt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When you’re poor, and don’t have a lot better to do, those work pretty well, in my experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Like when I wrote this on July 24, 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For tonight, at least. Although I am absolutely confused, of course. About what I wrote about and about how I can say something as innocous as how I don\u2019t believe in hell and get notes, and I write something important\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Oh well, as I said before, I write this for me, not for anyone else. But it just adds to my confusion sometimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, what is there to say? I\u2019m at work, again, and thoroughly tired of it. But just over three hours left, then two days off. I think I need to slip out of town for a few days, but that\u2019ll have to wait until next week. Maybe I\u2019ll devote tomorrow afternoon to getting the old Jeep back running for the moment. I kind of doubt I\u2019ll be able to keep it, but\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Drank a Red Bull last night at the urging of a coworker. It made me feel quite odd. I think it would have been better with a couple of shots of vodka mixed in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Blah blah blah blah<\/p>\n\n\n\n
See, nothing interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
*Yawn*<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And I’m finished for now. Time to go do part of what I came to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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