Road Signs

We finally got Summer back from the shop. This involved a fair bit of juggling. D went to the shop and sprung her out, then took the rental back while I got the kids and picked her up from the rental place. On our way from the rental place, traveling down Bandera in rush hour traffic, I saw something epic. You simply can't make this stuff up. I saw two people in a small car, talking in sign language. That's not so epic, except that one of these people was the driver, and she was using both hands to talk. That leaves her with no hands to drive her small car in one of the cities worst traffic spots. She drove for a good 5 blocks before making a right, and hardly touched or even glanced at her steering wheel. I almost got into an accident watching this.

We decided to go to Denny's for dinner, since it was late and the service was spectacular last time. Not so much this time. Not sure which substance our server was abusing, but it sure made for an unpleasant waiting experience. It took forever for us to even get drinks, and we had went through nearly three rounds of drinks before our order was up. Yup, that's almost 3x forever before we saw our food.

After dinner, I dropped myself off at the body shop and got Summer, gave the convertible to D and started her up for the first time since she'd been in the accident. And wouldn't you know it, they left it in gear and I killed her. -.- Welcome home, Summer. She was low on gas, so I filled up before I came home. I'd been feeling pretty burned out by all the running around and the insanity of children, so D had already marched them all to bed. Silence...

Finished out the night by burning off the ring charge from the night before. The effect hadn't expired, so we were actually able to use up the entire bonus over the course of two nights. There was only one other person there, and she spent half the time we were there dead waiting for a Raise 3 and left shortly after being raised. We pretty much had the zone to ourselves. Keri tried her hand at also playing Talonshard, since he was out of town. We got just enough to not waste the charge and left. I ended the night by taking pictures of sahagin for zeni. We have a ZNM night coming up on Friday, and I'd like to do a few with my own pop items. Emma also decided to tell the LS her cell number in case people needed to talk/text to her, so I sent her a random picture from my cell of my Oscar Night trophy. She's sooo getting random drunken texts...

I'm going on the record and officially calling an end to the BLM static. We have had an absolutely fantastic run. I've never been in a static before this that lasted longer than 5-6 levels. Usually just something to get through dunes/Qufim/jungles/sub-job blah blah. The fact that this lasted over 15 levels was just phenomenal. The problem? It has been harder and harder to schedule a time that we all have free without someone having some random thing come up or stepping on the LS's collective toes. Keri and I have been just as guilty as TS, Ame, MC or Andro when it came to having real life things come up or just not being up to it that night and we had to cancel. Don't get me wrong: it's been a good run and I'm very happy with where we were able to get. Not bitter or angry or anything. I'm just done trying to force 4-5 people's real lives to fit in the schedule of a video game. We might still manaburn together, but it will be less of a planned static and more of a spur of the moment thing.