Josh and Lauren left...

After a brief visit, JJ and Lauren went home. They have jobs which require them to be on-location. Josh is a chef and Lauren is a masseuse; it's hard to cook absentee, and harder to give clients proper therapeutic massage over, say, the phone. Or Gmail chat.

My job today was going to be to move about seventeen million boxes from where all the kids from work used to live (and where i used to work) to the new building where we are now going to live. I didn't help, though. I feel a molecule of regret, because however many people who were helping had to work one [however many of them were there]th harder to compensate for my absence. Plus, i didn't get to say goodbye to the building where (a) i met Tim Wetzel and many many many other friends, (b) i laughed until i stopped, (c) i got ten dreadlocks pulled out, (d) i spent well over a year inside. I figured it out (not very precisely) and i spent well over a year inside that building.

So anyway, JJ and Lauren left, having managed to avoid getting sick at all. That puts them in the minority of my family, since the rest of 'em have been quite sick. We conclusively blame food poisoning from a scuzzy gas station somewhere between Chicago and here. Probably Gary Indiana, the "armpit of America." Like, all of America, N. and S. Them not being sick is also extremely important, since both cooking and massaging are activities best done while the contents of your digestive tract are not seeking egress from your body.

They drive a manual Honda Element, which is a nifty chunky little "Active Lifestyle Vehicle" or whatever, which is a stick shift like i mentioned earlier. I only bring that up that because everybody in my family now drives a stick. I'm so proud. Phoebe's Mini is a stick. Mum's Hyundai is a stick. Antony drives a manual transmission Accord. Our little car is has a clutch, but our minivan is obviously an automatic. I don't think they make manual transmission minivans. At least they don't bring any to the US. Stupid.

Okay, so anyway, thanks for visiting JJ and Lauren! Even for a short amount of time.

i is has a clutch to!
-- joZe (Email) - 01 January '09 - 00:46

My sister’s friend from college had a MANUAL Dodge Caravan in the early-1990’s. I think her mom had it special ordered. It had a stick poking up through the flat floor beside the driver’s seat.
-- bread - 04 January '09 - 13:35

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