Well, I won't go into all of the gritty details (mostly because I can't remember all of the places we went) but the family vacation was interesting, if nothing else. No major blowups in the car or anything. Got to see Vegas again, then we went north and looked at a whole bunch of parks in Utah and Colorado and the like, saw the other side of the Grand Canyon, had the parents freak out because of a narrow walkway that would have surely plummeted them into a cavernous rock surface that would cause their primitive skull casings to spray jelly everywhere upon impact but hey, that's life, eh?

Good times, good times.

Hah hah! RICK JAMES IS HOME, BITCHES!

To feel your hair.
Only it wouldn't be as simple as that, no.
It would not be so much the feeling of the hair
that would remind me of you as it would that
it remains that it's me, right here, right now,
holding your hair in my calloused and rough hands.

To see you smile.
Lips curl on a shaky highway, making your stomach
do topsy-turvy twirls every time you run across one
of those types of curves. You know the type.
These curves remind you of home, somewhere.

To dream with you.
Because in the waking world we only have each other,
but if we were asleep we'd be together in ways
humanity can't possibly imagine. Life would be too great
for them to handle, and people would be clenching their fists in
agony that they couldn't sleep, to dream.
And you and I would wake, smile at each other (the topsy turvy curves)
and I would touch your hair with my rough and calloused hands (right here right now)
And we would dream the dream again.

This is just a short little reminder to people that I'm taking a family vacation for a little while. So if you slowly realize that I'm not around and wonder if I'm dead or not, now you know why. So I'll come back with stories and....well, probably not much else. Maybe my clothes. Anyway, bye for a while.

UBERw00t! I got an A in that class I was taking this summer. It was the sleepwise equivalent of cutting your own kidneys out with a dull screw head, but by God, it was worth it if I did that well.