Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving! I hope everyone had an enjoyable day.

Last night/this morning, I drove to my Dad's for Thanksgiving. I was originally going to leave right after work, but... For one thing, traffic was absolutely terrible at that time and for another thing I was a bit tired. A coworker was surprised I was going to drive right after work and suggested going home for a few hours, taking a nap. After she said that, I suddenly got tired.

Anyway, I left about 10pm and got in this morning at 5am. The first four hours were through super thick fog. It was kind of spooky driving through fog that thick; I felt so detached from reality. When I stopped in NJ to get gas, I had a really hard time navigating the rest area. Especially trying to get back on the turnpike since I couldn't read the signs to tell me which way to go until I had nearly missed the turn. When I was supposed to get a ticket for the turnpike, I couldn't even see the signs that said which lane was which, and ended up picking an EZ-pass lane. It didn't really matter in the end since, I traveled the entire length of the turnpike and paid the same for a "lost" ticket that I would have paid if I had the ticket.

Speaking of fog... I heard that Steven King likes the new ending for "The Mist" that they made for the movie version. I actually read the book on the way to my sister's for her bonfire party. It was one of his short stories, so it was only about 200 pages. Anyway, I wasn't that excited about the movie's prospects until I heard about Steven King's reaction. Apparently he was quoted as saying that anyone who reveals the last 5 minutes of the movie should be hung from the neck until dead.

Actually, there are quite a few movies (suddenly) that I'm interested in seeing. This is going to make it hard for me to finish unpacking, but it's a price I'm willing to pay.

Oh, I've also failed to mention that I finally got the DSL installed at my condo. I actually had to come home from work twice to let the Verizon guys in, but I now have Internet at home. I also installed a new wireless router. My old router was rather unreliable so I went ahead and got a new one that seems to be working much better. I know it's not really exciting news, but it's a huge step for me.

In other news, I'm thinking about getting political. Not like super political, but at least a little bit. But I won't talk about a lot on this blog, at least not without posting a warning if I'm going to be saying something.