Tucson

May 4-9

The Drive Out:

West Texas wasn't as dull as I'd expected. Dull, yes, but I was thinking Kansas magnitude. Maybe it was just that it's May, and everything's green...

Anyways, I got to Las Crucas, NM about 9:30 on Monday night PST, and since I wasn't tired, decided to try to make it to Tucson in one night. Got to go through some dust storms, which seemed kinda cool. It was just windy. Finally made it to Tucson at about 1:30AM. At least I didn't get hit by any bad weather...

The Visit

Tuesday: Walked to McD's for lunch, then came back to the apartment. Turned on the Pirates Gamecast (they lost) and the Pens game 7 (they won). Had a pretty funny moment after Jason got back and we'd turned on the Cards game... Jason's a Cardinal fan, and we "watched" Mac hit a grand slam off of Greg Maddux. You'd think he'd be happy, right? Nope, cuz in our fantasy league, I have Mac and he has Maddux. I've turned him! And just a year ago, he called me a stat whore just cuz I'd occasionally root for my players against the Bucs...

Anyways, dinner was greasy fish, and then we went to Spades. Then we got some ice cream and watched a few episodes of South Park.

This is where the detail level will go WAY down. I was lazy, and didn't write these pages till October 16th. For some odd reason, I don't remember all that much detail anymore. I'll try to explain the pictures tho, and recall what I can.

Wednesday: I played softball with Jason's team. I was pretty much a ringer, yet probably the first ringer in history to get sore for 3 days after a softball game. We fell way behind, and ALMOST came back to win, but that team never wins. My main excitement came from A) when I drilled a grounder off the 3rd base bag that went about 10 feet in the air and ended up a double, and B) when I had a close play at first, caught the throw, had the runner step on the ball in my glove, and shoot free. Um, isn't that an out? I thought so. But the ump didn't. Oh well.

Thursday: The Matrix. It was ok.

Friday: Checked out a Tucson Sidewinders game. I think they won... I remember a pretty impressive HR by some random guy. That's about it tho.

Me and Jason at the game

The game.

Saturday: We drove up to BOB to check out a Mets-Diamondbacks game. Again, I can't remember who won. Baseball's not meant to be played indoors tho. And I hate both teams involved.

Sunday: We deove down to Puerto Penasco, a town in Mexico. On the way there, we stopped and saw some bigass cacti. Fortunately, we spied neither E's nor H's. (E(cactus)=H(cactus).

Once down in Mexico, we got some classic art for Monroe (a glass in the shape of a woman's butt), and checked out the beach. It might look pretty, but it was pretty crummy, garbage-filled, etc. So we didn't go swimming.

The rest of my time there, hmm... Well, we watched a lot of downloaded South Park, watched a few DVDs (Mafia (1.5), other stuff I don't remember)... Basically hung out and had fun. But then it was time to be off for Tech...

Onward to Tech

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