briefly

[mrissa]

Safe in a coffeehouse getting tea for markgritter so he isn't a zombie for family dinner this evening. Ista woke up from her nap on the drive down yesterday (somewhere south of Owatonna) in a really happy mood, and she has since been eating like a pig-poodle hybrid, running about scruffing the family affectionately, and generally behaving like herself. This is an immense relief to everyone.

The wedding was lovely. The groom was radiant. (The bride looked beautiful, too, but when you've known someone since you were both 5, you can tell when he's happy. He just glowed. My mom cried when she saw him in his tux.) I underestimated the teacher factor in this wedding, since both bride and groom not only graduated from the same high school, but the bride is also teaching there now. So I got to see some people I was happy and eager to see, notably Jan and Blake and Doc Tichy and Mrs. Mo Tichy. Good conversations. More on which upon my return. Just wanted to let you all know all is well with everyone here, particularly after the pup's difficulties this week.

ETA: We're having difficulties reaching my normal e-mail (read: it is impossible), so please don't assume that I know anything about anything if you haven't called me with it. Which you haven't, because nobody has. Also, I tried phone-posting, but the phone number I tried for that has given so many busy signals that I think I need to go look on the lj page for another phone number.

Coolest thing on the road besides a healthy puppy: an open truck bed carrying the wheels and axles for train cars.

Comments

[timprov.livejournal.com]

Coolest thing on the road besides a healthy puppy: an open truck bed carrying the wheels and axles for train cars.

I'd guess that's less cool than the windmills. Am I right?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Yes, you are correct. I meant on this trip.

I'm going to look at your other message and then log out, so if you need anything substantial before tomorrow evening, please use the *gulp* phone.

[zellandyne.livejournal.com]

So happy the pup is ok! And that the wedding was beautiful.

[lutin.livejournal.com]

Yes! -- And don't worry, your e-mail problems
won't affect your supply of my anti-e-mails,
all of which have been received/sent.

;p

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Now, really that's too much. Can you confine yourself to sending non-e-mails? Anti-e-mails are going to annihilate with the e-mails in bursts of energy, and I don't want the e-mails annihilated.

Unless they're spam. In which case carry on.

[lutin.livejournal.com]

They totally exist to eat spam.

[mkille.livejournal.com]

Yay for happy dogs and good weddings!

[ellameena.livejournal.com]

The coolest thing we've seen on the road is a truck that seemed to be hauling something extremely heavy suspended between two enormous arms on a central gondola. Hubby and I figure the only thing that heavy that would be transported that way would be nuclear waste. Wooooo!

[ellameena.livejournal.com]

Okay, just for you I tracked down an image. I must say it is not easy to find an image of a radioactive waste heavy haul tractor trailer, but here it be. Just scroll down a bit for the diagram:

http://www.co.clark.nv.us/Comprehensive_planning/NuclearWaste/NuclearWaste_Transportation.htm

We saw two of these cruising down I-75 in Michigan. They are impressively immense. I know you would enjoy spotting them, too, and they are worth like a million points if you are playing any vehicle identification games on the road.

By the way, my apologies if you receive any unwanted attention from the feds over this. I truly am impressed by the paucity of pictures of these things on the web, and being a conspiracy theorist at heart, I kind of think it's not an accident. :-)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Very cool!

But if I receive unwanted attention from the Feds, I suspect it'd be because of my grad work in nuclear physics, not because of your lj comment.