Wichita, KS and coming home to my friends

Wichita's not only hiring drivers and servers, but everyone and anyone who's willing to come and live at this boring city with a rapidly diminishing population (no offense to Wichita, of course!)

Well, what can I say about Wichita? I was glad to leave Friday afternoon and fly back to Seattle. I wasn't happy about the layover in Dallas, of all places however. Don't ask me the logic in flying from Wichita, KS to Dallas, TX in order to get to Seattle. It makes no sense to me. The Dallas airport was nice for the Cobb Salad I got at T.G.I.Fridays, though. Friday night I cut loose with Jack, Andy, and Gabe, who's been living it up in Croatia for the past year. I discovered my roomies bought a cord of wood, which is 128 cubic feet of wood according to the Energy Information Administration. It was a beautiful cord, and well stacked, but to Jack and Gabe's dismay, it was dripping wet from the inside out which requires another cord of paper to burn it. It keeps the house warm and smells nice after the paper's burned up, though.

Jack, Andy, and me at The Tin Hat in Ballard after a hard day's thrift shopping

Saturday afternoon was a day of leisure, digging up deals at Value Village and Goodwill with my roomies. We also moved my room (which is actually Andy's now) into the basement where I got to demonstrate my skill as a window washer from the two days I spent as one this Summer. By evening we were all satisfied with a good day's bonding and were ready to party hard, which we did.

Gabe and half his sister (also a roomie) Mia

This week I'm excited to tour Minnesota, starting here in Rochester at the Ramada Inn. I already am brimming with nostalgia after driving past the Caribou Coffee where I used to deliver panini sandwiches during a job one Winter in college. Tomorrow it's off to St. Cloud! Good to be home.