Wooo hoo.
"Camping" this weekend:A friend will be in town (he's been in town a lot lately, weird) so we're headed towards the US-Mexico border to camp out at Killbourne Hole. This is the place where Coyotes smuggle Mexicans into the US. The hole, though, is supposed to be an amazing geological feature. I haven't seen it before. Last time my friends were camping out there they were shot at by Coyotes. I'm taking guns ... guns and many bullets.
Map of the hole:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=kilbourne+hole&sll=35.08413,-106.64863&sspn=0.412987,0.601501&ie=UTF8&cd=1&ll=31.971641,-106.961474&spn=0.026758,0.037594&t=h&z=15Texas trip next week:23rd: Drive to Dallas, kick it uptown, maybe visit SMU campus and other pointlessly fancy places
24th: Drive to Waco, check out Baylor University. Eat at Chuy's
25th: Drive to Austin, check out UT. Dinner with family that live there. Get drunk on 6th Street!
26th: Back to Cruces.
Round trip is < 1000, but that's before in-town driving around. Should be, I figure at most, about $260 in gas, $80/night for hotel, and then whatever for food and drink. I'd like to take a car just to cut gas in HALF (maybe), but I also want to see what my truck does on a long trip. The truck will probably end up going. I can get about 19mpg if I baby it, and since I'm going through the flat lands of Texas where the eyes of the Ranger are upon me, I figure on getting pretty good mileage hovering around 75mph's.
Boss is leaving:Boss takes off for his annual beach trip this Friday, he will return August 4. Work will be hella boring, I need a book. I have two books I've started (one I cant remember and one about George W., but non-fiction), but I'd really like to start Brother Karamazov. i loved Crime and Punishment and hear that Brothers Karamazov is supposed to be his best work.
Stacey is headed to Spain:I will be calling her tonight to rant about Hellboy 2 sucking majorly and just chit chat about random crap for a short while. Will call again Thursday to see how her p-word (physics) test went. While talking with her on Sunday (I'm actually glad I missed 45 minutes of Hellboy during the phone convo, the movie sounded lame during that time) she said I should go up again
. Me = WAY WAY WAY excited. I likes her, but at the same time must convince myself that nothing will come of it as I don't know WTF I'm doing come Spring 09 and she's in Italy all Spring semester (what is with me getting involved with chicks right before they take off for a semester?). If Baylor Law falls through I'll most likely end up in ABQ at UNM ... cloud with silver lining?
Was that some good posting for you, iago?