Random Musings - Ataru is Dumb (8/16/15)

-This vacation is over with...and now that it is over with, I can just be honest when I say this: it was a complete, utter disaster.  Everything since November when all the bad luck started has just been piling up one after another and it just all culminated with this vacation, including the first car accident, the "panic booking" to Seattle I had to resolve eventually and cancel, the latest problem with the house I had to pay for, the second accident, the windshield breaking and the ticket on IA-17 between Vermillion and Des Moines.  And then came probably the punch-line of the whole trip: this morning, I left my laptop at the hotel in Columbus, Ohio!  Luckily it was found and it will be shipped back, but I am so embarrassed that I just don't know what to say...or if anything can be said about all of this!  I like road trips since it allows me to get to places that really are too expensive by flying (plus there were a lot of great moments this time around if you followed my journal), but I think after everything that has built up in the last few months up to and including this, I really don't know if I should do another one like this for a long time.  Next year probably will be tough if mom gets her way and we both go somewhere during the Democrat convention in Philly, but she wants to probably go somewhere that will require flying...and renting a car at the airport...though maybe I should find someplace with a week's worth of activities that doesn't involve me going around in a massive loop.  Flying gets expensive...but I am open to it again after this mess. (and if that wasn't enough, I nearly got into the EZ-Pass lane to get off the PA Turnpike today...was I really that tired!?)

-Thanks to said laptop disaster, a lot of the stuff I was working on is going to be on hiatus, including the stories I was writing (like the SFM conclusion and the one tale I was doing for )  I may do a couple short tales like a silly commercial I've been meaning to do, but otherwise its just a waiting game.

-As one final aside regarding the vacation: there really needs to be a way to allow for someone to rest (and I mean sleep in a short nap) between destinations on a long trip like this.  Caffiene is fine (had quite a bit) but it only goes so far...let alone a good night's rest goes so far if you get up 6 hours later and still need to crash a few hours later as I tend to do.  My sleep patterns aren't normal and I know it and I don't have someone to help in driving which would probably help...which probably would get back into certain elements that I have to wake up to in reality of course but that's a different story.