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Saturday, 12/20/03

Here's what I'll be doing today.

It took about fourteen hours. I ate two sandwiches, two slices of cold Michael's pizza, and 2/3 of a bag of mint Hershey Kisses. I stopped four times. I got lost one and a half times. I can confirm that San Francisco had a power outage last night.

The CD player turned out to be broken, but the tapedeck worked, so I was accompanied for four hours by Richard Stark/Donald Westlake's grumpy little book, "The Hunter", which lost some gravitas when the fourth tape for some reason played at slightly faster than normal speed. I also listened for about five minutes to Harry Brown's radio show, which had less gravitas than the fourth tape. Brown asked listeners to mail him a URL to a Diane Sawyer interview, and whether his webcast was defective or if it was just his wife's DSL acting up. He also made a baffling argument based on the assumption that the US troops based in Saudi Arabia were there to protect Saudi Arabia.

I do not recommend this mode of travel, and around Redding it occured to me that I would like to figure out how many yards of yesterday's journey carry the same statistical chance of death as a domestic commercial flight. 09:15AM «


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