Home again, home again, clippity clop... I got a good night's sleep last night in spite of myself. Woke up about 07:00 and jumped out of bed, ready to face the day and maybe have some fun. I got dressed and went downstairs for coffee and a roll. Didn't see anyone that I knew, of course, I'm sure that everyone was out partying late. So I sat there with a cup of coffee, and suddenly I really, really missed Karen. It was still really early, and the meetings were going to be in another hotel just about a block down the street. I strolled down to check the venue, but I didn't even go in... I knew what I was going to do at that point. I went back to the hotel and packed up and checked out. Didn't really even take any time to think about it. I made one wrong turn getting out of town, but that was OK 'cause it took me through downtown, so I got to see some really tall buildings and stuff from kinda close up. I've heard that the Sears tower is first on the list of risky buildings to be in or around right now. It's really a pretty building... Anyways, I got out of town pretty easily after that. It was pretty much overcast but now raining any... after all, it had rained all day yesterday. It was a pretty day for driving, which was great, since I was going to be driving for ten hours... It was just a pretty day in general. Some days, it just seems like the whole world was made just to please me... the nice little puffy clouds, the shape of a hill, the feel of the wheel of the Camry, the taste of McDonalds coffee... well, scratch that last one... the *smell* of McDonald's coffee... But I missed having Karen to share all of this with. I don't know, maybe she wouldn't have been as impressed with the day as I was. In which case I would have had to leave her by the side of the road, which probably would have endangered our relationship.... Anyway, I got to Topeka just after the sun went down, I had to drive the last 60 miles with the damned sun in my eyes... Karen had called me just after I got on the Kansas turnpike in KC, she couldn't believe that I was so close. She was making chili, which was very, very good. It was wonderful to hold her in my arms... and smell the chili. Well, damn, it's good to be home. It'll be wonderful to sleep in my own bed tonight... I don't have to go to work tomorrow, so I'll have time to organize and put up the entries for this last week... O'yeah, http://www.glitterbook.com/jcon2001/you.html is the URL of the people who were at the journal con 2001.... I think that I kinda met everyone who was there, but many of them I couldn't associate a face with their journal... and it seems like there were some that were going to be there that I really wanted to meet, but either they weren't there or I didn't recognize them. If it's the latter, then I'm really embarrassed. So I just won't make any assumptions until I read everyone's entries. See, I'm not really as dumb as I look...