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Welcome to the Love Bus. Y’all Just Sit Back and Enjoy the Ride.
Hello from Texas! The above quote is courtesy of the rental car shuttle driver at DFW, Randall Sweet.
I am writing on Tom’s fancy HUGE monitor in Waco…I almost feel like my eyes have to be in opposite corners of my head so I can take in the whole screen.

Tracy and I have seen about 30 houses so far, both with and without the realtor. She and I very different taste but the value here is AMAZING. Seriously. The one we like right now is only $149K, and it’s a 4 bedroom. Pretty nice.

Can’t write too much bc it’s weird to be on someone else’s computer and stuff…we have WEbTV in our hotel room but it’s $10 a pop. (We’re staying in a La Quinta…I once heard a stand-up comedian say that la quinta is Spanish for “next to Denny’s”, and I believe him~) So this might be it…I’m going to be like a shaking crackwhore when I return bc of my lack of internet and Diet Coke!! (PS – I did see crackwhore last night in Lower Greenvillle (Dallas), so I know what I am talking about. I don’t know if I can get my hair to do that, though.)

Book read on the plane: Holes.

I can’t wait to tell you guys about one of the realtors Trace and I dealt with yesterday. Yo, here’s an FYI: when someone starts a sentence with the words, I don’t mean to be judgemental, but…, there is bound to be judgement ahead. I couldn’t even look at this guy after he said his nonsense. I live Southside Minneapolis loud and proud. Where the CLASSES and people of differing SEXUAL ORIENTATION (I blame that one on Tracy’s realtor) “intermingle” just fine. Ugh. My liberal self needs some relief.

Be well.

Clay Aiken. WTF.
I have added a slew of links to the del dia section to last those of you undisciplined readers a couple days while I am away. And, inspired by Jenell and Car-lotta-lovin’: COMMENTS.

Here’s the hotel where I’ll be staying in A-town. It’s pretty nice. I love staying in hotels. It’s probably bc we didn’t do it when I was a kid (I come from a borrowed-cabin-in-Wisconsin-counts-as-a-vacation kind of people). I kept reading the description yesterday looking for a “hot tub”, but I forgot that they call them “spas” down there. (They, unlike me, do not live a couple blocks away from the sketchy mCsketch Delux Spa.) They also call bedroom suites a SUIT - as in the pronunciation of what Dan Moore sells. Add it all to my WTF list of the day.

A late Shout Out to Rachel on her birthday yesterday – we had a wonderful dinner last night and great conversation. I love that our community continually stretches the definitions & experience of redemption.

Dude, have you ever heard of the Wiggles? I clicked on one of their links yesterday while reading an article on Slate and AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! Who are these gay Australians and why are they making $20 mil a year?

Because it’s MY BLOG and bc they’re MY GIRLS let me just give a Bubb Rubb-style WoooWOOOO to the Dixie Chicks for this award. Sure it’s little more than a doorstop but I think the #1 characteristic I admire in women is balls, and Nat has ‘em in spades.

What else do I have for you today? Ah yes: Sex & The Single Christian, yet another way to try to beat the Pack, many of the kinds of men I have dated since I was 15, the Drink You’ll Never Want, and more birth control news.

This fits in perfectly with The Great Exercise in Redemption I am doing in Waco on Sunday: SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): To supply the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times, about 63,000 trees must die. Is that a worthy sacrifice? Maybe. To keep your body fueled with caffeine for a year, upwards of a thousand plants must give up their lives. Is that a worthy sacrifice? Possibly. To make sure your freshly hatched dream will ultimately reach full bloom, at least three of your tired old illusions will have to croak. Is that a worthy sacrifice? Hell, yes. Let the mercy killing begin.