jonathanlawson

Rantings of a Madman
2003-09-09 00:28:52 (UTC)

i drove 1130 miles and i didn't even get singing, lol

Well, i drove 1130 miles and i spent about $130 (with
only a CD to show for it, lol) but you know what?? It was
worth every mile and every penny, fun stuff i tell you,
except apparently i've seen everything that there is to do
in the santa rosa area, lol, and berkeley, no offense if
you like it there, was a dump, lol. Plus way too much
walking, lol, uphill, downhill, everywhere, and there were
so many bums and i saw a drug deal going down, lol, and
someone ran into my car, and so on, but i'll get to all
that eventually.
I got back from the nearly 7 hour drive last night
around 11:30. So anyway, i left friday morning around 9,
ran a few errands first, like got a cell phone charger for
my car and some other things i needed from target. Then i
was off, but of course being me, i hit the junction to the
99 instead of staying on the 5, sometime like right after
the grapevine. But i righted myself later, and got back
onto the 5 right before santa nella using this detour that
i could go 95 on, lol, anyhow, at about 5, i got to
berkeley and found the place that mike told me to park, but
that was like way too expensive, but i parked there at the
time. Then i met up with mike and we went to go see harry
(which was a good half mile walk, at least... uphill) and
us three and three of harry's friends went to dinner, which
was annoying, since one of harry's friends was being a real
bitch, lol, but whatever, after dinner me and mike split to
go move my car, since parking was so damn expensive
(another half mile... downhill), so then we moved my car
and parked on the street back up past harry's dorm, lol, so
then we decided to go to the movies, which was way at the
bottom of the hill, so we walked there (a good mile, at
least... downhill) so we saw swat, it was alright, then
when we got out, it was freezing, lol, not really, but when
you're used to 73 in the middle of the night, whatever the
hell that was, probably about 60, felt like it was 40, lol,
and me in a T-shirt and shorts. So then we walked back to
mike's dorm, i said bye, and walked back to my car (at
least a mile... uphill) so then i slept in my car because
i really didn't want to sleep on the floor, since the next
day my back woulda been killing me, right? but you know
what, it was only 11 and i wasn't tired, so you know what i
did, i went for a walk, lol, i'd say about another mile or
so, half uphill, half downhill, of course, lol. so then i
tried to sleep, and when i got to sleep, you know what
happens?? a car hits mine, and then wakes me up, of
course, then they drive away, as any outstanding citizen
would do, but that sets me back a good extra hour, so i
actually got to sleep around 1:30. And my car had to be
moved by 9:30 or else it would be towed, lol, but like hell
i was going to be able to sleep that long, lol, what with
cars buzzing by and all the light and everything. So you
know when i woke up... 5 not because of cars or light
though, because i was freezing, lol, even though i had put
my sweatshirt on, guess it gets pretty cold at night there,
lol, but i figured with the windows closed the heat would
just gather, but it all escapes eventually. So at 5, i
turned on the heater full, lol, and decided to start
driving to santa rosa, figuring that i can stop when i see
something that's open, hoping for a denny's or something,
lol, (you kinda have to know mark to understand, he talks
about denny's as if it's the greatest place in the world,
because it is open all night, like walgreens, and he can
just go in the middle of the night with friends and stuff,
lol, you REALLY have to know him to understand) i made it
all to the way to santa rosa and i see a denny's so i get
off the freeway and eventually find it, lol, and i get some
breakfast and coffee (i normally under no circumstances
ever drink coffee, but i was tired as hell, and i needed
the caffeine and it was way too early for soda) after that
i just went back to my car and slept in the parking lot for
a good 2 hours or so. It was quite pleasant, but it got
too hot until i opened the windows a crack.... either too
hot or too cold, i just can't win, lol. so around 11:30, i
called danielle, and went to her house with body pillow
riding shotgun, with his seatbelt and all, a few minutes
north of santa rosa.... so since we couldn't decide on
anything to do, we drove out to bodega bay, at the
suggestion of her mom. Now you see, parents don't
typically have any idea of what is fun, and this case was
no exception, lol, there was nothing to do there, at all,
some beaches with rocks and some boats in the marina, lol,
so that was an hour drive for nothing, and an hour back,
lol, but whatever (we didn't even try her other suggestioin
though which was literally to take a hike, lol, get it?? do
you get it??. on the way back, while driving, may i
remind you, i flipped a coin and that decided that we
should go bowling, lol. so we went bowling, i won all 4
games, despite bowling 2 left handed...(i had to cheat on
one roll though to win by one pin) but i lost the hundred
dollar bet, but won my money back later, lol. so we were
done with that pretty soon though, so we decided to go with
the thing that we would've done if the coin had landed
tails, lol, ice skating... so she knew the place was
somewhere in santa rosa, lol, and after getting lost sorta,
we found it, lol. Anyway, after not falling (both of us
almost falling several times in the 45 minutes there) even
while doing the hokey pokey (which i was "forced" to do),
lol, that was over. So once again we couldn't decide what
to do so somehow we settled upon going to the mall, which
took a little while to find, lol (it was about the size of
the mainplace mall with a huge parking structure right next
to it, but nonetheless hard to find, lol) but i think we
spent quite some time there, those singing dancing
hampsters are addicting, lol. plus we got starbucks, which
made coffee twice in one day, lol, that's more than i
normally have in a year. and we looked at CDs for way
longer than people should (made fun of those kids bop CDs
too), lol, for no reason at all, but we had nothing better
to do, walked around some more, ended up back at the
singing dancing hampsters (in a different store this time)
lol, and played a demo of mario golf. Anyway, after that,
we went to go see if there was anything playing at the
movies, (took the wrong exit and kinda ended up going the
wrong way for a little bit) but there wasn't for another
hour, so we went to mcdonalds, then after that we drove in
circles, literally, lol, there was this circle and i went
around it a few times, since we couldn't think of anything
to do. So then we went back to her house and watched "the
recruit" which was alright, but i'm so used to watching
movies and stuff on the big screen that 32" (if that many)
just doesn't cut it anymore, lol. Anyway, her parents said
i could stay in the guest room, which was nice, so that i
didn't have to drive all the way back to santa rosa and
find a hotel room to stay at, since i was not going to
sleep in my car (or try) again, lol. so anyway, i woke up
around 7, and was kinda in and out of sleep til about 10.
We decided to go miniature golfing, since we had done
pretty much everything else imaginable in the area, lol,
and you know what, she beat me at miniature golfing, lol,
cheats, all cheats, like when she picked up the ball and
threw it into the windmill, lol, then after i couldn't
make it, i picked mine up and tried to drop it in from
abouta foot out, key word being tried, since somehow it
missed or bounced out or something. (and then later she hit
me in the ear "on accident" with the putter after i "tried"
to no avail to push her into the funky colored water that
was either dyed green or blue, lol). anyway, since we were
there, we rode the go-karts too after a game of air-hockey,
lol, but she claimed to have a slow car, lol, but you know
what i think?? bad driving, lol, although i couldn't quite
overlap her before time ran out. then we went back to the
movie theater, lol. once again, nothing playing for
another hour, lol, so we were sitting in my car arguing
about what to do, and about half an hour later we figured
that we might as well just wait another half hour since we
had waited that long already, so we just sat there, arguing
about what movie now, lol, and about singing, then she
showed off how strong she is and body pillow was being used
as a shield, (you kinda had to be there, lol) and we were
getting strange looks from people who walked by, lol. so
anyway, we saw "the order" which i so do not recommend, do
not see it, lol. after that, i took her home, said bye and
decided to drive back home (around 4:30) and there wasn't
much traffic, but the most annoying thing in the world is
a "moving roadblock" which i'll tell you about later when i
write about driving, lol. anyway, i got back home around
11:30, after having to stop for gas twice, although i
coulda made it with only one stop if i had been thinking.
so anyway, being the internet junkie that i am, i went
online, lol, about 150 e-mails and all but 2 were junk,
but since SOMEONE was still online, i stayed online, lol.
but got tired a little after 1 or so and went to bed, i
slept straight til 10:35, good stuff, lol.

Songs of the past few days: "time of your life" by
greenday, "today" by the smashing pumpkins, "up on the
roof" by the get up kids and "honestly" by zwan, all in no
particular order.

FG quote "santa cannot be asian, he doesn't drive his
sleigh 5 mph under the speed limit with his left blinker on"

Simpsons quote: "the doctor said i wouldn't have so
many nosebleeds if i kept my finger out of there"




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