November 26, 2001

For everyone who cares - I'm back from my Thanksgiving trip to Palm Springs. I'm actually still in kinda of disbelief that I made the drive in *one* day. Seemingly all those airplane- paranoids, plus all the crazies who knew they weren't gonna be able to smuggle their dope or 15-inch knives or bombs onto the plane anymore, obviously decided to take to the roads.

And so you're in the Central Valley of California, on I-5 (the world's most straight and boring road), and you're sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic, inching forward at snail-speed, wondering which massive crash in the DMV database has made it possible for all these numbskulls to get a driver's license, and why science, with all it's human-cloning capabilities, has neglected to invent hover-crafts.

As was instantly pointed out to me though, the thought of all these idiots flying around in hover-crafts and crowding the airspace isn't exactly a pleasant one either...

Of course this explains it all.

On the bright side - economic experts have finally figured out that we're in a recession. Since March.
Ha Ha. Next.

Oh, and did *anybody* else see that groovy shooting star over the Bay Area last night around 8:30pm? Driving north on 580, I saw it coming down out of the left corner of my eye, streaking across the sky in a shining white flash. Yet instead of burning out, the tail curiously turned green and the tip became bright and brilliant, until it vanished beyond the horizon and out of my sight. I could have sworn it must have hit the ground somewhere ...