God help me, I'm going back on the road.
The last year has been, um, complicated. I made it to New Hampshire after a summer-long road trip - also quite complicated; it ended with me being chased around Concord by a man who wanted to attack me for accidentally tripping him with a cheese doodle. I hid in a parking garage, but Craig (the cheese doodle victim) called his friends from California and they surrounded the place. For eight days. Besieged in a New Hampshire parking garage by a dance troupe, for eight days. I don't know exactly how I got out of that whole deal, except for being airlifted to a hospital and being force-fed Sun Chips until I could rejoin the Otis H. Basketry campaign - which, by the way, got a grand total of 72 votes in the presidential election. The man is clearly ahead of his time, although his ideas about using pastries to fix the foreclosure crisis AND the auto industry would have saved the country a lot of money.
That's not to say Otis was slowed down by the election - if anything, he's got more ideas on using bread to solve the world's problems. He's even hired me for one of them: I'm a technical consultant for a new "bread power" project that will make enough energy for a thousand homes from a single marble rye. Being a History of Disco major, engineering isn't my strong suit, but I have a couple techie friends back in California who might help. They build robots in their garage that say rude things. Otis got venture funding somewhere and he wants them on the team.
The only catch? The venture funds don't arrive until the end of summer, so we have to do everything on the cheap for now. Which means he can't afford to fly them to New Hampshire or pay for their moving expenses. Instead, he's sending me to drive to California and bring them back by August.
What I'm packing: lots of clothes, lots of music, my new DSLR camera, a couple loaves of bread. And my auto club's number is in my cell phone's favorite numbers. What I'm not packing: cheese doodles.
I can't believe I'm doing this.
Now listening to: Mission of Burma, "Max Ernst"
(Photo by ky6r)
