December 2006

**ATTENTION WASHINGTON STATE**
On Thursday I will be flying to Seattle for a long weekend. If you can remember back to last year, this will be a very similar situation. I will even be wearing the same coat. I haven’t even had it on since I got home from last year’s trip. I should be landing in Seattle sometime between 12 and 1 PM. I’ll probably head downtown, but I really have no plans at all. Unlike last year, I DO NOT plan on drinking nearly as much, if at all. Last year I got so ripped I barely remember most of the night. During our trip to Othello the next morning we had to pull over 3 times so I vomit on the side of the road. It wasn’t fun at all. It was easily the most miserable trip across the Cascades I have ever experienced. And I have experienced some fairly miserable trips across the Cascades in my time!!
I think I’ve made this trip 9 out of the last 10 Decembers, and I’m really not enthused. For some reason everyone there seems more excited to see me than I am to see them. I don’t really know why that is. It’s not meant as a dig on anyone… I really like everyone I’ll see and don’t have issues with anyone there. I’m just not to a point to where I’m dying to see anyone. Everything will be the same, but I won’t be able to experience it in the same way as when I lived there.

One more reason why I’m not overly excited about this trip.