Back in America now. The trip was a long one, and Canadian customs confiscated the good luck bamboo stick that I had bought for my brother. Also I was dumb enough to pack Augustiner beer bottles into a non-rigid suitcase, and one of them broke, a realization which only slowly dawned on me. I noticed a funny beer smell several times and that my bag was dripping but it took a while to put two and two together. The line to U.S. customs in Toronto was long, snaking back and forth, and I left a telltale trail of beer the whole way...thanks to me, the entire waiting room for U.S. customs probably smells inexplicably of Augustiner Helles.
But I'm in good old Rolla, Missouri now, and have been for the last three days. I went shopping at a supermarket the day after I got back. It was like being in a nightmare in which everyone is fat.
Saw my friend Kate yesterday. We talked about all kinds of junk over Denny's coffee, then went in for some blind pillow-testing and other randomness at Wal-Mart. There is a difference between "Firm" and "Extra Firm" and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
Posted by Alan at December 18, 2002 09:07 PM