we went to best buy with guy's dad so that he could pick out some software for guy to buy for father's day.

a long time ago (last summer) i got invited to a wedding of an old high school friend, marissa anderson. i got her a $50 gift certificate to best buy, but it ended up that the wedding was during my time in portugal, and i never ended up getting the gift to her. so here i've been for a year with this thing in my pocket. i blew it all today.

i got some DVDs. john woo's hard boiled, which comes with a student-film made by woo, trailers for 11 of his old hong kong gangster and kung-fu movies, and a load of other special feature stuff. bruce lee's enter the dragon, which also has a ton of special features. the coen brother's the big lebowski, "careful, man! there's a beverage here!"

we packed up our stuff and were ready to take off, but a couple of guys friends from when he did a semester at the air force academy stopped by randomly.

they talked for about an hour about what kind of jets they were flying (T1s?) and their training (7G centrifuge??).

then it was time to head on back. we said goodbye to the family, they gave us some food (8 2-litre bottles of soda, and about 30 cherry snack pie thingies). and off we went.

guy made a wrong turn somewhere and we ended up in oaklahoma. i wanted to take an oaklahoma route anyway because i had never been there. we decided to take the short way and skip it, but this wrong turn put me in oaklahoma for about as long as i cared to stay (20 minutes).

now i've been to 47 states (never been to florida, you can guess the other two).

i saw an armadillo on the road! they are my favorite animal. it's a shame it was cut in half and smeared all over the highway.

i drove as far as amarillo, and guy did the rest. i thought my driving at 85 was risky...

guy averaged about 100mph. he was going 125mph in places. i was scared for my life. but he's gotta show off, ya know.

at one point, doing about 110mph, the radar detector went off full-blast and guy was really worried. but no one ever came after us. it was weird.

after tucumcari we entered a bad storm and i started flipping out. lots of big lightning. we made the 287 stretch in record time.

after getting slightly lost in santa fe, we made it home after 10.5 hours of driving.

as we reached los alamos, guy started being a real jerk for some reason. at one point, i told him i was going to call carolyn and camilla and he said, "i don't know if i want you to call them..." to which i should have immediately been pissed. but i was so flaberghasted that anyone would say such a jerky thing that all i could say was "wha?"

"well, you'll be like 'hi how are you guys? are you tired? ok we'll see you tomorrow." that's what he said to me.

god damn that guy can be an asshole sometimes.