I'm sitting in a starbucks, waiting for my gps tom tom (renamed Paige) and laptop to charge, using the wifi I get because my dad has a dsl account with att, all while being in the odd city of Modesto.  I have been from Los Angeles to Sacramento and  some of its surrounding areas.  Met someone I had been talking to online for about a year. Met my first girlfriend for the first time in 6-7 years and enjoyed every short minute of her time. Skated a park I would love to transplant to southern california.  Witnessed the pirating of a Mervyns by countless hapless consumers all while watching the prices of items literally drop every 15 minutes (as I snapped photos of economic collapse).  My car's starter died in the little of nowhere and I had to be towed 50 miles to Fresno where I had two new starters go completely bad in the auto shop and the third took hours to find. Survived my friend's kid attacking me and calling me dad (oh dear) and the kid's family deem me okay.  It's been an crazy 4 days. And tomorrow, I'll be driving back to Los Angeles down the 101 to save my car some work.  

I don't even know how to make sense of any of this.  Probably for the best.

God I wish the economy weren't going to topple over. I'd take trips like this more often.

I wonder how everyone else's holiday has been....