bloodyrosemccoy | On The Road Again

I’m back! What’d I miss?

It’s been quite a weekend, my friends. We spent two nights at my brother’s college apartment, whose lease expires next month. It’s become quite obvious that he is not going to get his deposit back because his roommate is a disgusting drunken slob. This was not always the case—his roommate used to be a pleasant eccentric who just happened to be a disgusting slob—but over the last year the dude has been spiralling steadily downhill. As far as we know, he hasn’t been sober for two months.

This meant that we had another mission added to the log: warn this friend’s dad that his son is well down the road to alcoholism. Always a fun way to spend a weekend!

The actual fun part was seeing my cousin’s new baby and his older brother the GIANT BABY,* and staying with aunt and uncle in Grandma’s house for the last night. My brother and I geek like nobody’s business, and we got geek all over those two. They were a little disconcerted by our willingness to sit around reading choice Terry Pratchett bits aloud to each other while we waited for our iPods to charge before we went the rest of the way home,** but they were pretty sweet about letting us stay.

And now if I can just get the sensation that I’m still driving a car down the highway out of my system, I’m back and ready to roll.

*The kid was huge when he was born—almost as big as the “newborns” you see on TV shows. Now he looks like a pretty average-sized four-year-old. Except that he’s two. The cognitive dissonance in seeing, as far as your brain’s prototypes are concerned, a four-year-old acting like a toddler is disconcerting at best.

**When your iPod is almost out of batteries, you delay your trip to charge it. This is a rule.