Being home weeknights has allowed me to partake in some of the great American sitcoms I've been missing all this time, and I don't know how I've lived this long without sampling the insightful wit of King of Queens and the exquisite comic timing of Teachers. If the rest of the world has seen some of the crap we produce, no wonder they hate us. It's not our intrusive foreign policy or superiority complex - it's our crappy sitcoms. And I know it's become a common joke, but I really had no idea how many Law & Orders and CSI's there really are. Between all the crime shows and bloody gore that is the nightly local news, there's no need to fear Al Qaeda; we should be scared to death of ourselves.
The overwhelming amount of things I need to do before I leave is slowly being whittled down into a manageable pile, and it looks like I won't be scrambling at the last minute to get things done. I finally wrote a list of what needs to be accomplished, first thing being "Make a list of things that need to be accomplished." Second on the list is "Figure out how to lower gas prices," but I'm guessing I'm probably going to have to work on that one for a while. Could I have picked a worse time to decide to drive hundreds of miles a day for no real reason except to fulfill my own self-delusional desires? Probably not. And what happened to the whole notion that the point of the Iraq war was to steal all of their oil so we could have cheap gas? Can't Bush even get that right? Trudel gets about 15-18mpg, which really isn't all that bad, but it's safe to say gas is probably going to be the largest single chunk of my budget - I'm guessing around 40%. And gas prices are only going to rise throughout the summer, so maybe I'd be better off just walking cross country.
Another thing that's bugging me is wireless internet. I'd planned to go with a service like Verizon or Cingular that gives you a wireless card, and wherever you are in their service area (which is most of the country), you can get highspeed broadband for a monthly fee. Verizon would be $79 a month, and Cingular would be $59 since they're already my cell phone provider. However, both require at least a one year contract, which sucks because after my trip I'll have no use for the service. I think what I'll do is in the beginning I'll see how well I do at finding free hotspots, and if that starts to become a distracting pain, I'll go with the Cingular service. So adding to my list of things to do, I'll go to http://www.wififreespot.com/ and print out the list of spots in each state.
On a funny note, thanks to the useful tools of www.freestats.com, I can track hits to this site. And if someone was directed here from a Google search, I can see what they typed into Google that brought up a page of mine. Best hit from Google so far? Someone found my site by searching "Sound Clips of People Smoking Weed." Whoever you are, I hope you weren't disappointed.
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