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Day 1: March 13, 2005 8:27AM

Some things change, and some things remain the same. Among the things that remain the same is my cavalier “the hell with directions, we’ll find it well enough” mindset. Unfortunately, another of those things that seems to never change is my inability to “find it well enough” without directions. Hmm. Welcome to day two of our adventure!

So, instead of waking up in a cold tent in Badlands National Park, I woke up in a warm hotel in Murdo (yeah–we know where Murdo is, too… or not), South Dakota, took a nice warm shower, dressed, plugged in the laptop and started typing this. In a little while Ken and I will go downstairs and enjoy the complimentary continental breakfast. I guess things work out for the best sometimes. =)

Wanting to avoid an experience like I had on my last road trip, I chose a “Days Inn,” and I’m pleased to say that, not only was I able to sleep in the bed without fear of lice, it’s not 8:35AM and as of yet no creepy men in trench coats have stopped by looking for their dealer. … Very nice!

Anyhow. After getting some grub, we’ll drive across the street and try to pirate some Wireless Internet, and then press on towards Minneapolis; we’re about six hours out. Here’s a brief rundown of the itinerary:

Sunday: Arrive in Minneapolis. Dinner with Ken’s dad (he’s making spaghetti–whoo! Home cooking!).
Monday: Possible lunch with Drew Collins (see: worship leader from Cheyenne–ar! I wish I had the stupid search function working) and then, since we’re in Minnesota, we’re going to go get some White Castle (sp?) and watch Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle.
Tuesday: Get up and drive to Chicago. Walk memory lane, see the waterfront, etc. Stay in Chicago that night.
Wednesday: Return to Minneapolis. Dinner with Ken’s mom at P.F. Chang’s!
Thursday (St. Patrick’s Day): Drive north to Duluth. Enjoy some of the St. Patty’s day festivities. Return to the cities that night.
Friday: Get up and drive like mad men back to Montana.
Saturday: Hang out with William in Miles City.
Sunday: Return home.

There you have it. At least that’s the plan, so far: god only knows what’ll actually happen. In the meantime, Ken’s out of the shower which means its time for breakfast! Happy Spring Break!

Ug. I’m pretty sure that I have strep throat as well. Severe and sudden sore throat without coughing, sneezing, or other coldlike symptoms? Pain or difficulty with swallowing? Yup, that’s pretty much me. I guess I’ll go in and get tested tomorrow. In the mean time… hell, I’m going to bed. I’m way not ready for that test tomorrow, but I guess I’ll just hope I’ll be ready in time. AAAAAAAAAA

In other news, I found a backup copy of my blog some place. Until I can figure out what the heck I’m doing, I’ll just use this version. Whoo.

Oh, and in the vein of making me feel better, I didn’t do so hot on my Film History test today. Ug.

Oh well. I’m still smiling. And I really need to get in bed! Tomorrow comes early!

So if I were smart, I’d do the smart thing and work with a “test” version of my site rather than working with the live production version, especially since my site does somehow manage to attract a small amount of traffic.

But, of course, I’m not smart.

So at about the time I got off of work on Tuesday eateggs.com didn’t even load. I stayed until I couldn’t possibly stay any later, and by that point I had things kinda working as well as you see them now. And until Friday evening, I’m going to be super busy, and things are just going to sit.

I say all of this as a means of saying 1) I’m sorry and 2) you can’t post comments and 3) I’m going to fix it but 4) I’m super busy right now so you’ll just have to wait. =P

I can’t SEE! Ever since this damned pink eye hit I haven’t been able to focus on anything. It’s getting better, but as it gets later in the night I can’t focus on text on my screen or in my book… it becomes blurry. I found myself shielding my eyes, trying to read my film book… what the hell? Shielding my eyes? In a poorly lit dining room?

I know it’ll get better in a few days, but in the mean time it’s scary as hell. I’ve always had perfect vision, and this is a bit of empathy I’d rather do without.

I’ve been staring at people and things, not being able to recognize them. Things that should otherwise be very clear are beyond my power to identify. I just see blurs.
I know. Poor baby. Poor Mark. Whatever. You try to study for an exam while being unable to read your study materials…

So I have this random problem where, with Firefox, the pretty blue bar on the right hand side doesn’t extend down when one expands a content box (i.e. a “post comment” section). The solution to this is to force the page to re-render, but I have yet to figure out how to force the browser to re-render the page in a non-obtrusive fashion. Resizing the window works, but, obviously, that’s rather obtrusive. Refreshing the page… well, that refreshes the page.

It works just fine in Internet Explorer, although there are other portions of my page that don’t render correctly in IE. And besides, who uses IE, anyway?

So anyhow. I’m writing this hoping that either 1) some blinding inspiration will come as I type these last few words or 2) some blidning genius will post a solution to my rendering woes in the comments section.

Well, a guy can hope, can’t he? =P

Edit: In other news, Carter should get off his butt and make Sagar’s blog work. I would like to point out that, although my blog has some rendering issues, it’s still substanially more functional than Sagar’s. =P