The Old Wolf Express
May. 15th, 2009 11:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theoldwolfAfter a late start, made it as far as Rock Springs, Wyoming tonight. Motel 6 had one room left... we snagged it, even though it's a smoking room and smells like one - but my son is happy as he's a smoker. You'd think that listening to me cough my lungs up for 24 years would be enough to get him to quit - even though I've been clean for 40 years - but no, the kid has to learn from his own experiences.
Took me about an hour of work with Verizon's tech support to get my new Samsung Omnia phone (
) working as a modem - needed to get the drivers downloaded and a few settings tweaked. Phat props to Verizon who has not yet outsourced their tech support to Bangahore!
We should get an early start tomorrow and make it at least as far as Chicago, Mogg willing.
Took me about an hour of work with Verizon's tech support to get my new Samsung Omnia phone (
) working as a modem - needed to get the drivers downloaded and a few settings tweaked. Phat props to Verizon who has not yet outsourced their tech support to Bangahore!We should get an early start tomorrow and make it at least as far as Chicago, Mogg willing.
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Date: 2009-05-16 08:25 am (UTC)Chicago? 1,200 miles in a day? :-o Please, don't drive faster than your guardian angles can fly and no longer than they can stay awake. ;-) Have a good and uneventful drive.
Phat props to Verizon who has not yet outsourced their tech support to CENSORED!
* troutslap * :-D
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Date: 2009-05-16 02:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-16 03:35 pm (UTC)Dang! missed the gag.
Saddle up! Move out!
Safe journey and don't go into any garages in Chicago.... especially with scar faced men or cats in fedoras....
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Date: 2009-05-17 02:37 am (UTC)Yeah, 1,200 miles by car sounds borderline infeasible. Think you could average 100 mph for 12 hours? Incidentally, I remembered earlier today how Teddy Roosevelt rode 100 miles on horseback in a day just to shut up the soldiers whining about 25 miles a day. Even a fast horse with high endurance would take a darn big chunk of the day to do that. People congratulate Teddy on that one, but unless he had relay horses, let's give even more props to the animal beneath him.
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Date: 2009-05-17 04:15 am (UTC)So I'm optimistic, so sue me!
But the nice thing about being on vacation is you get to stop when and where you want...
"Typo": Bangahore instead of Bangalore...