arontius | Huh? There Is A Starbucks In Bloomington. (Reply)

.....And it is a drive through as well. Which is rather surprising as when I was here last year the nearest Starbucks was much closer to Indianapolis itself. They'll need a lot more though if they are going to balance out the number of Wal-Marts here. I must have passed one every five miles or so on the way here. :-)

.....It's cloudy here in Bloomington, with periodic bouts of rain. But the temperature is very warm. So the mugginess if very intense today. Going to take a little to get used to it. But Indiana itself doesn't seem to have changed a whole lot over the past year. It feels like one giant manicured park to me. And the infrastructure is just as torn up this year as last. I had to do several detours around road construction just to make it into Bloomington.

.....Still getting stories from Honey War. I think that being there benefitted Dragon's Laire in ways that may resonate for a long while. There is a certain amount of excitement in how many people turned out for activities, as well as the diversity of the activities in which we participated. We may have to consider a War of our own sometime soon. But I'm going to leave that percolating in my brain for a while. Although His Excellency Cedric mentioned to me today that something along these lines was actually discussed at Honey War this year. :-)

.....The flight seemed a little longer than normal. Maybe it was the three hour layover in Dallas - Fort Worth. We were in a terminal that felt really closed in and dark, rather oppresive. Then we ended up waiting an extra hour to board the flight. Seems that when they shut down the plane last night, someone forgot to switch on the flow of air conditioned air from the terminal and the temperature was reading over a hundred degrees when they opened her up for the days. It took them about fourty-five minutes to cool it down to manageable levels to allow passengers to board.

.....I finally made it to the hotel around 3PM Bloomington time. I unloaded my stuff and sat on the bed, and found myself waking up from a nap about two hours later. :-) I've felt groggy ever since. Need to go to bed soon as it is an hour's drive from Bloomington to Crane. I think I'll go through the drive in Starbucks in the morning. :-)

.....Loving my Nook though. I tore three three Anne McCaffrey novels since hitting SeaTac yesterday. Working on another Tom Corbett novel tonight and have a couple of Egyptian Tomb findings that Mom sent me for reading. I think there are a couple of others past that as well, so I think I'll have enough to see me through the week. If not it might be a good time to figure out what I'm doing wrong with Gutenburg Update. It is still hit-or-miss whether or not a download from Gutenburg will be readable on the Nook or not.

.....Good timing (NOT!) for Indiana though. Newcomers Night tomorrow night at Fight Practice. I had been toying with the idea of a little dancing, or to pull out the gemshorn. But instead I get to miss it all together. At least they'll get some inspirational speaking from TBT. She always has good things to say. Madrun had wanted me to bring out a few circlets for display. I forgot to pull them out on Sunday, but TBT knows which bin they are located. I hope they don't need polishing...

.....Now I'm falling asleep at the computer. Oh, well, it's time to go to bed anyway. I called home, but TBT was out on an errand. Rhys was in a good mood, so that bodes well. I did call though. :-)

.....Aaron / Arontius.