So after 12:50 tomorrow (today), Friday, I wam “free” until…well…ok, I won’t actually try to summarize.

Fri @ 21:00 Jasmine (that’s my little sister, I think her link is on the left as “phenomenal”) and I get on a train to Miami. It will supposedly get there on Saturday @ 18:05. In October I took the train from here to Orlando and it took an extra 16 hours or so. That is 16 hours plus however long the original/planned time was. So while trains beat the pants off of planes (where does this come from? do I have issues with this? “beat the pants off” hmm is this about rape? i certainly hope not, btw, quick tangent, someone, who was it? um…Jared Brothers! said “herstory” today…I like that.) as far as passenger experience, I think they lose in reliability.

Anyway, we’re going to Miami b/c Aunt Mary offered to give me Grandma B (Aunt Mary’s Mother [in law])’s old car (I don’t know why Aunt Mary offered Grandma B’s car, maybe Grandma B gave it to her)! It’s a white “13 yr-old” Chevy Caprice. Think large cop-car sedan. This is great! SO we are going down to get that and hang out with Miami family for a while, then over to Naples family, then Ft. Myers family, Clearwater family, Orlando family(?), Charlotte family and hopefully haircut, then back to Chapel Hill by sometime Sunday 3/18.

Then, Monday, plane to LA (thanks IBM!) where I will be attending the Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference. Then Fri night, get on a plane and get back Sat sometime.

So yeah, two weeks of break should be nice, but I will need to do IBM and school work during both so…not REALLY breaks, but it’ll be WAY better than being here.

Got neat things to write about, but no time yet…I need to finish up with Sir Leds-a-lot on GChat, then sleep.