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\"Hyperion It’s time for a report from the cat.\u00a0 It’s been a long day, and it’s not quite over yet.\u00a0 This post is being written on the road … literally, we’re doing about 65 miles per hour, and we’re passing though eastern Pittsburgh.\u00a0 We’re such geeks!\u00a0 Anyway, we got up this morning, did bills, laundry, errands, cleaning, packing, etc.\u00a0 Then\u00a0 we went and got the new rental car.\u00a0 While we’re there they ask us if we’d like a compact SUV instead, for no additional charge.\u00a0 We asked them what the mileage was on it.\u00a0\u00a0 They looked blank, then looked in the computer, and smiled and told us: 18 miles per gallon.\u00a0 We said in unison “No way!”.\u00a0 Sure our own car has a slipping transmission, but it’s full sized AND we get 28 miles to the gallon (which I thought was pretty bad for a road trip to Denver).\u00a0 So we got a Chrysler Sebring instead.\u00a0 Not as good mileage as we would have liked, but still better than either the SUV they wanted to give us, or our own car.<\/p>\n

Next stop was the dealership, which was suppose to call us two hours before with a time-to-completion estimate on\u00a0 our car.\u00a0 But, as usual, they still hadn’t managed to let us know anything.\u00a0 While we were there, we dropped off the loaner rental car, since we had the new one and didn’t need two.\u00a0 Then we popped into service to ask in person.\u00a0 Nobody knew anything. \u00a0 But when they checked the bay, our car wasn’t there, and it had been earlier.\u00a0 So they assumed <\/em>it had been finished and taken out for a test drive.\u00a0 Lacking critical, need-to-know information, we sat in the waiting room for a half hour until they came to find us and let us know that the car was indeed finally ready.\u00a0 We went out to pay the bill, and found they had charged us for the rental car, which they swore they weren’t going to do.\u00a0 At least they the decency to look embarrassed and took the charge off. \u00a0\u00a0 But I’m still rather miffed that I had to find it first.<\/p>\n

Now with car in hand, we headed back home and finished packing up all the food.\u00a0 Gayle, of course, had to dither over what knitting projects to bring.\u00a0 She is such <\/em>a girl!\u00a0 In case you’re interested, that’s three sock projects and one sweater.\u00a0 Plus just a soupcon of fleece to spin with a drop spindle (which she’s now gotten good enough at that she doesn’t drop it anymore).<\/p>\n

Okay, finally the car is packed, I’ve run back inside twice for the things we forgot but remembered before we got out of the driveway (we remembered something else, but we were 10 miles away, and I was not <\/em>going back!).\u00a0\u00a0 Next stop was the bank for spend’en cash, and then Starbucks for a caffeine fix.\u00a0 And finally we were on our way.\u00a0 Of course that put us on the highway during rush hour traffic.\u00a0 Fortunately, most of the HOV lanes around here are for two people, which if you stretch your imagination to include me, qualifies us.\u00a0 So we were a bit delayed, but not as bad as the poor schmucks sitting all alone in their bourgoise-mobiles in the three-lane, glacially creeping, parking lot.<\/p>\n

\"Western<\/p>\n

Late Breaking News:\u00a0 We just crossed the border into Ohio!\u00a0 Yeah us!!!!<\/p>\n

Ooops, Later Breaking News: Never mind.\u00a0 We misinterpreted a sign.\u00a0 It would seem that the elusive Ohio\u00a0 border is still about an hour away.\u00a0 Sigh!<\/p>\n

Late Late Breaking News:\u00a0 We just crossed into Ohio!\u00a0 For real this time.\u00a0 Seriously!\u00a0 You couldn’t miss the sign.\u00a0 It was big enough to have it’s own weather system!<\/p>\n

Question:\u00a0 You’re on the freeway, driving down between little hillocks, only slightly raised, not even taller than the car, and sloping away from the road. \u00a0 And the road is plastered with signs warning “Beware of falling rocks”.\u00a0 What’s the deal here?\u00a0 Asteroid strikes?\u00a0 Avenging Angels?\u00a0 Hill Giants?\u00a0 Tired and slightly off-kiltered minds want to know.<\/p>\n

Not much else to talk about.\u00a0 We’re glad that Starbucks is omnipresent, and so therefore is caffeine.\u00a0 I’m a strict adherent to the old adage: Better living through chemistry.\u00a0 But only caffeine.\u00a0 I may be a radical, but I’m a tame, boring one.<\/p>\n

We’re looking for Highway 80 heading west.\u00a0 That’s our ending goal for the day.\u00a0 Once we find that, we’ll look for cheap accommodations and call it a night.\u00a0\u00a0 Back tomorrow, same cat time, same cat channel!<\/p>\n

\u00a0On the road again!\u00a0 I can’t wait to get on the road again!\u00a0 Although the wind make my fur stand up on end!\u00a0 I still can’t wait to get on the road again! <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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