April 30, 2017

Last night I slept with my earbuds in so I could listen to the white noise app I have. The app actually allows you to layer several different sounds and I went with brown noise (I think) and a fan. It's a pretty cool app. Somehow the earbuds stayed in the whole night and I didn't wake up a single time. It was great.

When I did wake up I looked over and my roommate for the night was gone, as was his truck. I guess he left first thing in the morning. It was as if he was never there.

For our last breakfast the other guys had biscuits and gravy with eggs. I had basically the same thing minus the gravy. It was pretty good but fried eggs don't make great sandwiches because the yolk tends to go everywhere when you bite into it. For the second egg and biscuit I cut into it, and I just went with strawberry jam for the third, which I got to take home with me. Yesterday was my first peanut butter and jam sandwich in I don't know how long. But now I'm going to keep up with it, at least until I finish the bottle, because it is pretty tasty.

After breakfast I took a shower and we all got packed up and ready to go. The other guys were going to go back to the lake and see if they could get some fishing in but I was headed home. All in all it was a good weekend. I went into it feeling pretty anxious and not feeling terribly excited about it but I really enjoyed myself. It was fun going out on the boat Friday night and it was fun just hanging out and playing video games all day with everyone on Saturday. That's my kind of bachelor party. And it only cost me $150 (plus a couple tanks of gas). That is pretty cheap for a weekend in a fully-stocked cabin and home-cooked meals.

We parted ways around eleven o'clock, I got gas, and then headed out. The trip back went much faster, but that is mostly due to not having to stop and give a presentation in the middle of it. I think it was also a more straightforward route without any tricky exits because I managed it without missing any of my turns. I was also glad that none of the roads I needed were flooded. One of the highways was pretty close and there was a spot on one of the interstates that was also pretty close, but I was lucky and didn't need any of the roads next to the interstate that were completely submerged. It was pretty crazy seeing so many roads and fields underwater.

It took me almost exactly four hours to get back (I was two minutes under) and the whole trip was almost exactly 500 miles (it was about five miles over). I thought that was interesting.

Oh, and on my way back I came across two horse and buggies. And saw two more off on a different road. I came up behind the first one right as they were next to the sign that said to share the road with them, but unfortunately I wasn't able to get to my phone in time to take that picture. I also had to drive behind them for awhile because we were coming up on a curve in the road and I couldn't see if another car was coming. The same thing happened with the second one except it was a hill so I had to drive behind them until I could actually see ahead. I don't know that I have ever seen one horse and buggy out in the wild and today I saw four, so that's pretty cool

When I got home I unpacked my stuff and then loaded my laundry into my car and headed to my Mom's house. I spent the rest of the afternoon doing laundry and watching movies. I saw most of Independence Day: Resurgence and then bits of other stuff. Independence Day: Resurgence is the last movie I saw in theaters, which was when I in Florida for the ALA conference. It's still not a good movie but it's a fun popcorn movie that kind of brings back the nostalgia of 90s action movies, which is fitting because it is a sequel to a 90s action movie. I need to re-watch the original I think, so I can familiarize myself with the characters again. The thing that still annoys me is how quickly they kill off Vivica A. Fox's character. There was absolutely no point to her being in the movie. I think they used it to show the impact of the alien invasion on citizens but they could have easily done that with a complete stranger. She didn't have enough screen time to really make you become invested in her so the death just seemed pointless.

I spent the rest of the night clicking around the internet and trying to catch up on YouTube videos. That may never happen because I still have some to get through from Thursday, and everything since then. So we'll see.

Now I'm going to record my audio journal. I still need to record one for Friday and Saturday so I might do that first, while they're still relatively fresh in my mind.