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on the plane?

stupidtom — Sun, 20 May 2012 20:46:38 +0000

There was a dude on the plane last night wearing his bicycle helmet and not because he had suffered a traumatic brain injury. I overheard him telling someone that while his wife’s fit just fine in her carry on bag his had to be worn to travel. All throughout the flight I kept checking back to see if it was still on and was never disappointed. He was three rows back and there would have been no discreet way to take his picture plus the newlyweds noisily making out in the seat behind me might have thought I was filming for alternative reasons. I cant think of a situation where I wouldn’t abandon a helmet rather than wear it on a three and a half hour flight. He and his wife looked like Tweedledum and Tweedledee so the extreme fitness vacation to Las Vegas must have included buffet breaks. If I suddenly developed a soft spot like a newborn I might wear a stainless steel yarmulke but that would be it. I couldn’t get over my fellow travelers.

I was seated next to a very nice girl from Chicago but she was chatty. Part of that was due to a fear of turbulence and once things got bump she shifted into an impressive beer drinking gear. Eight beers later as we were getting ready to land her eyes kept rolling up into her head. I think she even “ordered for me” while I was pretending to sleep as a small talk avoidance maneuver. We got in at a quarter to midnight and she was hammered. Luckily she was being picked up to go to a party so I let her know that was called a running start. I feel like whipped shit today and hopefully my internal clock will reset by work time tomorrow morning. Vegas is too much concentrated stimulus for this guy.

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Goodbye Vegas

stupidtom — Sat, 19 May 2012 18:27:30 +0000

I found this reclining Buddha and was immediately attracted to it. So much so that after finding out it was mostly styrofoam I lifted it off of its pedestal much to the chagrin of the mall authorities. Nothing on my permanent record just a reprimand.

I don’t get how these guys make any money dressing up and getting harassed in hundred degree heat. Another Vegas puzzle.

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Into the void

stupidtom — Fri, 18 May 2012 18:40:34 +0000

I lost a post on Wednesday and it was flushed into the great beyond for reasons I know not. But I need to have the picture I took make it to the page.

I’m not sure if you can read the sign in the shot because I’m posting from my phone but I got special parking at the airport for driving my clown car. I am closer than most of the handicapped spots in the lot and I’m not sure what that says but I like it. If you find yourself at Ohare be sure and pet it as you walk by. Back to class

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Vegas day 1

stupidtom — Fri, 18 May 2012 03:47:24 +0000

I can’t get Internet in this place to save my life. Weird because you think they’d want me up in my room on the Internet rather than downstairs gambling. I even tried to pay for the reasonable $20 per day wifi but for some reason it wouldn’t go through. A puzzle indeed. And speaking of puzzles…

This was lit up in my room and it took me forty minutes to figure out how to shut it down.

Awesomely odd.

if my feet hurt this bad tomorrow night I will be sitting in that bad boy. Tepid pool of my own filth or not.

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