montana shirt

 a patron in front of me tonight had a montana shirt on, might be the young lady's school. i was at the airport picking up the rental car for the road trip to iowa for the weekend. i didn't get started as early as i had hoped on the drive, because i wanted to see that other things were done first, such a paying a bill. and i still had to pack a bag, but that doesn't take long. i still watched some 'big bang theory' reruns before departing to get the car. it was when the friends had the last meal made by howard's mom. and it was followed by the one with the celebrity d and d game with wiliam shatner and kareem abdul-jabbar. things got better at work, because the parts arrived and so did the tech. once he arrived i said we need to check the branch, and the box was there. i sent 5 tubs of mail out at the end of the day, there still is a backlog but i hope to eliminate it when i get back on tuesday. 

  i liked how the drive to iowa, once i got started, was largely uneventful as usual. as expected, the farther into the drive, the thinner the car traffic was. because i was farther away from the twin cities and later at night as well. i liked how i needed just one stop along the way, near the state line. pretty much halfway into the drive by then. i made it to the hotel in the des moines area around 12:30 at night. i did a little writing about my drive in my hotel room, while drinking a beer and eating some peanuts, but when the pen ran out i was done. there wasn't much left to write about by then, and i wanted to get some rest as i planned on seeing some family and friends while in town. listened to plenty of music during the drive, one song in particular spoke well about performing, so i could relate to it. this was 'took a pill' by mike posner.