Home is where you hang your router.
 

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So yeah, trying to consistently get online while traveling for a vacation is major pain in the ass. Most of our trip was spent in small towns in the midwest where DSL, Cable, Broadband, Running Water, and Electricity were novelties.

When were in a big city, and in a hotel, we were basically out all night doing god knows what, including patronizing the scariest gay bar I have ever been in.* Stumbling into a hotel room at 3:30 am isn’t really conducive to writing anything coherent, or worth reading.

So the travel posts that I was trying to get written and posted stayed mostly in outline form, and I’ll flesh out over the next couple of days.

The next installment of the record contract drama is almost ready for prime time. I had to back burner it for some emotional processing.**

In the meantime, I’d like you to ponder this sign in the window of a Subway restaurant in southern Oklahoma:
No Firearms

Sadly, this sign is common in Oklahoma. It’s getting to where a man just can’t take his guns anywhere anymore. Though, I suppose there’s nothing like a loaded .357 to ensure that the 14 year old behind the counter doesn’t fuck up your Italian BMT.

Edited: I just noticed that the hours posted are fairly limited to a two hour window between 10am and Noon. I believe that in addition to having to be told not to bring firearms into a fast food restaurant, they need some instruction in the difference between PM and AM. We stopped at this particular Subway at 9:30 PM and can assure you that they were indeed open for business.

*The Edge in Springfield, Missouri, if you’re wondering… and yes details are forthcoming.

**Definitely more about this coming soon. Keep your pants on. Or don’t. Whatever. I’m not the boss of you.

5 Responses to “Home is where you hang your router.”
 

pants are on.
but only because i am at work.
not promising anything in 6 hours.
because i am seriously curious about the rest of the story.

ps…welcome home…glad you survived!

hellohahanarf wrote on September 18th, 2006 at 9:14 am

 
 

What’s scary to me is that from the sign, you could infer that the reason they don’t want guns in their shop is not because they are bad, dangerous, and just unwelcome by the proprietors, but mostly because the microwave is in use.

othurme wrote on September 18th, 2006 at 10:04 am

 
 

um, before i even got to the point about the firearms, i noticed that the sign says the place is open from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. daily. you’d think they’d want to stay open through lunch…

k wrote on September 18th, 2006 at 10:38 am

 
 

hello- Oh come on, I’ve met some of the people you work with… I don’t think they’d mind.

othurme - That’s one SERIOUS microwave in use at Subway. It’s actually recommended that the customers stand outside whenever someone orders anything with bacon. (UncleMonkeyBoi thought exactly the same thing about the microwave/firearm connection.)

k- See, once again you are much more observant than I am. I’ve been carrying that photo around for days now and it took resizing and lightening it in photoshop and posting it online before I ever noticed that the business hours were quite limited. Though, I have to admit, from an employee perspective it’s not so bad… two hours a day! :)

jester wrote on September 18th, 2006 at 12:17 pm

 
 

Actually, 12pm is entirely meaningless to anyone who thinks about it….

http://www.astronomy.net
/articles/13/

Tor wrote on September 19th, 2006 at 7:51 am

 

Say something already!