So currently I am in Reno, NV. Paying $11 a day for internet, in a hotel that is more like a city unto itself (Reno Hilton). There is a shopping mall, a 50-lane bowling ally, a huge arcade, a casino, like, 10 resturants, and a bunch ofother stuff I can't think of at the moment. We were planning to leave on the 12th in the morning, but it turns out that Chad's actually supposed to present his paper after we would have left, so we had to move our plane tickets to the 13th, and since it takes all day to get back and we have to change two time zones... it will be like, 4pm on Friday before we get back. To memphis.
More crazyness... We have to go through Starkville on our way to Houston, as the movers left a bunch of crap that we need to transport. So... we're looking at 11 hours in the car, plus time to finish packing the car and stop and eat and stuff (Willer Lite: I'll call you and let you know when we will be in Starkville, and we can eat then so we'll have time to see you). And they are supposed to deliver our stuff in Houston on the 14th, Chad is on the phone right now for them to bargin for a deliver time of 10am instead of 8am (!), so we know we'll actually be in Houston by then. If the movers move the bed in first, I swear we'll both just go to sleep.
And I got a call from my mother early yesterday... at 6am, while opening the Governors drive McDonalds, my brother was robbed *at gunpoint*. Some guy in a mask came into the store with a gun, put it to my brothers head, and told him to open the safe. Robbie did what he was told, and the guy left. No one was hurt, but my bother was pretty shoken up. The police came, but they probably will never catch this guy. My bother is trying desparately to find a new job.
My car may still go to the wrong city... the car mover swear it's going to Friendswood, but hte tag they put on it says Markham, TX.
I have a job interview on the 16th, Chad's first day of work. Cross your fingers... I also still have to finish my app to Rice. Today, I guess, since we paid for internet today. (it's due the 15th).
Blah. If you don't hear from me in the next couple of days it becasue I stopped paying for internet.
# posted by Anonymous : Tuesday, January 10, 2006 5:07:00 PM
Hey. Thanks for the update -- I'd been wondering how things were going for y'all.
You know, I'd seen that about a robbery at the McDonald's in the paper yesterday (The header was "Arch Villian"), glanced at it, and moved on. Sorry to hear your brother was involved.
Good luck with the move and with the interview. Hopefully, I'll see you in a few weeks.
# posted by David : Wednesday, January 11, 2006 9:02:00 AM
Wow, so did your brother quit or did they have the nerve to fire him?
Anyways, yay for getting to see you guys again, Not yay for the reason why.
# posted by Willer : Thursday, January 12, 2006 2:13:00 AM
David... To be completely honest, I'm more nervous about driving up into Houston proper at rush hour than i am about hte interview... city driving + houston drivers + deedee = not so good.
Willer... My brother turned in his notice. As soon as another manager came in for him to turn in his notice to. I think he gave them two weeks, or a month or something. He even finished out the shift the day he was robbed. He was planning ot leave before all this went down, but now he's set a date. He's looking for somehting not fast food at the moment... he's hoping for a job at Lowes, I think.
# posted by Deedee : Thursday, January 12, 2006 12:43:00 PM
This is my brain..... in part, at least.
: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 5:07:00 PM
