View From the Bushes

One of my hobbies are urban legends and for my money the very best site for
that sort of thing is Snopes.com. Today, that repository of all (or
much) that is true revealed that the Metallica story I posted yesterday
was a hoax. Some of you may not even know what I'm talking
about since the link was somewhat obscure and, I will admit, thrown in at
the last minute so that I would have some kind of link in the blog. It
was precisely that haste (and the fact that Snopes didn't post the
debunking until today) which lead me to make that mistake.

I considered pretending that I knew it was a joke, but that would
be a lie, and after telling 665 lies in View from the Bushes, telling one
more made me strangely nervous. Did I mention that I'm going to have to
miss GenCon because I have to be in DC to receive my Congressional Medal
of Honor? Oops there I go; that's going to count against me at some
point. Today, I had to ship some stuff for GenCon. Let's just say it
wasn't a fun experience. One of the guys who was going to help out called
to say that his back was spasming. "No big deal," I thought, "I'll just run
out to his house over lunch." Yeah right...

First there was the accident that had traffic backed up for a mile. Just
as I passed the spot of the accident, the policeman moved the cones to open
the freeway back up. I think that means that I spent the maximum time
stuck in traffic. Then I while still fuming from the traffic jam, I missed
the split to get on the other freeway, and so instead of cutting through
the city I ended up basically going around it. Then there was the problem
of finding a box for the long, wide, very flat booth graphics. Then when
I decided to have the guy at the UPS store do it, his estimate of 15
minutes to do the packaging turned into 45 minutes. And then there was
the money... *shudder* I think it's still too soon to talk about that
part.

Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero
Ross