1. Spending three hours to go four miles in Chicago, because the Good Citizens of Indiana don't want to pay enough in taxes to maintain their roads above third-world conditions. There's no excuse for how badly the closed interstate was handled: five cones and a blinking arrow sign dumping you onto city streets with no detour signs. And come on, how long does it take to pump the water off the road? Not three hours, to be sure.
We lost a total of one and half days of time to delays like this, and this one was so bad that we ran out of time and just could not stop for the night. We ended up cat-napping in a truck stop and getting to my parents' house exhausted and filthy. But we got there.
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2. T-Mobile was doing OK accepting image messages to Flickr for a day, then it stopped working so we called tech support and they changed something about my account. And THEN it all went to hell and now my phone crashes at the merest thought of sending a picture message. Still need to call and complain some more.
3. And even that would not be so bad, because I can use Noel's phone as a modem, but then the software I use for posting to this blog decided to just lose two posts. I'm not going to try to re-create them.
4. We stopped here:
and got Dairy Queen cones, which don't come in chocolate. Just vanilla covered with "chocolate" confection dip product. LAME.
5. Also lame was how the people who own the truckstop had Jesus merchandise all over the place. Because nothing says belief like making little idol statues of your savior and selling them.
As an antidote to this, we have had a nice day or so in Ithaca with my parents, dinner with my godparents, and many walks for the dogs. Tomorrow morning very early we get in the car and make the final leg of our trip to Maine, at which point we will be incommunicado.
