Saturday, May 2, 2009 - Neosho MO
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Blooming Yucca, Valley of Fires, Carrizozo NM, April 28, 2009
This headwind is getting old
My gas mileage has been falling steadily and is now down to about 6-1/4 mpg from the long term average of about 8-3/4. At least gas prices are low - my last fill up was at $1.769.
There is Verizon Broadband access in Vinita OK
What a nice surprise. On my way to Neosho MO I stopped at the Wal-Mart in Vinita OK to punch down the bread and take advantage of the high speed Verizon EVDO connection I stumbled on there. If I hadn't been able to check Verizon's coverage map and confirm there is EVDO service in Neosho MO I would have called it a day and stayed in Vinita for the night.
This leak is getting old too
What an unpleasant surprise. Remenber my A Tale of Two Leaks last fall? This is the first time it's rained on the rig enough to test for leaks since my resealing of the Fantastic Fans and the air conditioner way back in December. Well, I found water under the desk today. Grumble.....
Night camp
Wal-Mart Supercenter in Neosho MO
Wal-Mart Supercenter Store #499, 5505 W Owen K. Garriott Rd, Enid, OK 73703 - (580) 237-7963
- Nice level parking
- Verizon cell phone service- Very good
- Verizon EVDO Broadband service - Good service
- Find other Wal-Marts in the area
- Check the weather here
Beware of Hypnotic Media
To live sanely in Los Angeles (or, I suppose, in any other large American city) you have to cultivate the art of staying awake. You must learn to resist (firmly but not tensely) the unceasing hypnotic suggestions of the radio, the billboards, the movies and the newspapers; those demon voices which are forever whispering in your ear what you should desire, what you should fear, what you should wear and eat and drink and enjoy, what you should think and do and be. They have planned a life for you — from the cradle to the grave and beyond — which it would be easy, fatally easy!, to accept. The least wandering of the attention, the least relaxation of your awareness, and already the eyelids begin to droop, the eyes grow vacant, the body starts to move in obedience to the hypnotist’s command. Wake up, wake up — before you sign that seven-year contract, buy that house you don’t really want, marry that girl you secretly despise. Don’t reach for the whiskey, that won’t help you. You’ve got to think, to discriminate, to exercise your own free will and judgment. And you must do this, I repeat, without tension, quite rationally and calmly. For if you give way to fury against the hypnotists, if you smash the radio and tear the newspapers to shreds, you will only rush to the other extreme and fossilize into defiant eccentricity.