  Yes, very good, the correct answer is ohio. i awoke at 5:00 AM (yes AM) this morning cause i had to go with my dad to pick up some materials for the urlLink Snorkeeze (click it if you dont know what it is yet) in Toledo, Ohio. ya, that city that is at the top of ohio or somewhere around there. at least on the way there i got to see where the band bus got mixed up last year. there were 2 huge signs, really really big signs, monstrous signs, one said "Harrisburg" and the other said "Youngstown".
i swear that the bus driver must have been blind, but we dont have to deal with them anymore since EF got a wonderful new bus deal thing. anyhow, we left the house somewhere around 5:45 and arrived at the chemical place around 11:30. if this trip was his idea of 'father son bonding', he failed miserably. i slept most of the way. so we finally got to the place and we picked up the stuff we needed and began our trip back. i drove on the way back that way it appeared as though i was needed. for most of the time then i got to listen to my dad snore, which was just lovely.
he did wake up everytime one of the buckets of chemicals in the back fell over. most people would think "uhhh, bucket of chemical...falling over.... BAD" and thats how my dad made it out to be. but the truth is that those buckets are sealed so tightly that its almost impossible to open them up unless you have 5 people helping you and 7 crowbars (thats crowBARS, not crows as in EH EH EH or CAW CAW CAW crows).
moving right along, we got to pittsburgh and then my dad was thinkin it was a big deal to drive through the city. so we were in one lane and then a car came up and managed to pull in ahead of me. ooo, wow, how horrible. but my dad wanted to make a big fuss about that too. he was like "I cant believe you just let that car cut infront of you like that!!!!exclamationpoint". so i told him it was just one car, one. i doubt that one car would affect us getting home an hour early/late.
but we finally made it home, amazingly, in one piece. so everything is all ready for Snorkeeze production to start, we make the molds this weekend and by next week we have 5 new boats running. well thats what my dad thinks atleast. he thought that we would have been done by november... last november, thats right november 2003. (i think he was a little off). but its all good. band mini-camp starts monday which im excited about cause that means time away from the house. but i dont mind band really, everyone hates it but i dont think its really all that bad. dare i say it, i think im looking forward to going to practice now.
:-) aww ya! (sleep-depervation? ill let you decide) well, i leave you now with these words of wisdom "has anyone realized that the olympics are starting on Friday the 13th?
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