Shawks blog

Today went pretty well. Slept in a bit then started fiddling with this webpage stuff. Facebook I’m finding is a potent distractor though being 6 hours different from most of the people in my list means I tend to be going to bed when most of them are checking theirs. So I don’t get completely distracted by real time chatter. Uploaded a big chunk of photos to the gallery and then finally wrote up the adventures with starting this trip. Before that went out and mowed the lawn. Also finally went and mailed a postcard that I was meaning to send for a while now. I think this page is about well enough set up to release the link for but now I think its about time for bed.

March 6, 2009

Got up early after having fiddled around with packing until late including a trip to Walmart to buy an entirely new set of luggage.  Stared at suitcases quite a bit trying to decide if I had too much or not enough stuff in them. Mom came up and met me to haul me around. Realized I should have some better tags for the suitcase (things fell apart on landing) so picked those up on our way to lunch. We ate at my current favorite restaurant, Chinese Express on EP True / 50th in West Des Moines and chatted with the owner. Then we went over to the airport and had a coffee and waited for my flight. Being jumpy about the whole check in and security process since I hadn’t done it in nine years I said bye to mom and went through security and had about an hour to twiddle my thumbs. Ran into the first hiccup here, small plane with tiny overheads so they took one of my carry-ons and stowed it below. My laptop kit didn’t really fit below either so I had it between my feet all the way to Memphis.
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