Last Part!

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Then after eating we checked into our hotel Friday night. It was a relatively nice place (by our standards) right in downtown. Too bad it was only for one night (but I guess that's how we afforded it!). We got up in the morning after a comfortable night of sleep and went to Little Goat Diner (a place we ate at last night). Had a really delicious breakfast. I wouldn't've gone for more french toast, but what I got had this amazing balance of flavors with onion brioche and egg cooked right in the middle inside the "toast" and fried chicken and barbecue maple syrup. Holy damn! We took a little constitutional walk around the blocks and then headed back home. We made good time. We had a late lunch at a Culver's somewhere in southern Illinois. I don't remember if this was the case last time but Illinois no longer has a slower speed limit! So it was slightly less annoying driving through than in past years (7% less annoying!). We made good time and made it back home in the early evening. Trudy didn't come out to see me at first, but I found her under the bed. She had to wait to hear Mary Beth before being coaxed out, though. One sucky thing is I found that she'd gotten under my desk where some papers and stuff had fallen and peed. And one of the things that had fallen back there was my autographed Damo Suzuki poster. I'm hoping I can salvage it, that's pretty pretty pretty annoying. Not much else, I was tired last night and now it's today and I've made my way through a few hours of posting this stuff! Oh yes, and I also came home to a cd in the mail yesterday: Belly Full of Stars: Brokendatapool. Very nice packaging and I'm very excited about this!