Well, I picked Michael up at GSP this morning at 10:30. It was really amazing that I was even up that early on a weekend. As I kept pointing out to him every time he was afraid he was abusing our friendship asking me to follow him somewhere, normally I wouldn’t wake up until 2:30, at the very earliest, so anything I accomplished before then was just making my life a little less pointless.
When I woke up at about 10:00, I almost freaked out. I’d actually set the alarm for 9:00 the night before. Unfortunately, after setting it (as I was getting into bed at 2:30 that morning), I totally forgot to actually turn the alarm on. In any case, I actually made it to the airport about 10:45. Even thought his flight was actually supposed to get in at 10:26 (why 26? They can’t just round like a normal person?), they were running late, so it all really worked out well despite my blunder.
Our first stop was, of course, at work. We picked up his bike and started running his last set of errands in town. After dropping off his old neighbor’s key and a library book at the library I’ve never once been to, we headed towards Easley to get some lunch before the church crowd set in and then drop off the bike at its new temporary home.
Michael treated me to a lunch at Ruby Tuesdays. I didn’t even know there was on in Easley, but apparently there is. As per usual, I had to get my New Orleans Seafood. It’s really weird. Lately, I seem to quickly go from a “normal” hungry state to an incredibly upset “acid eating away at my inner organs” upset stomach “I never want to see a piece of food again” kind of disgust. Who knows, maybe I really anorexic and I just don’t consciously realize it.
Anyway, it was such an incredibly nice day today. With a high of 76 degrees and totally sunny, we both had just a great time riding around the country back roads around Easley on the way to Coop’s house. You wouldn’t believe some of the amazing houses in that area. Most of them are at least 3x the size of ours, and ours isn’t exactly shabby.
Coop’s amazing in and of himself. Aside form all the amazing robotics stuff and other computer stuff he does, he also makes a fortune and it shows. In his driveway he has a brand new VW Passat-ish thing. Talk about sporty..600-horse-power Trans Am parked next to it. Being the geek he is, he has a home-made solar panel in the windshield of the Trans Am that plugs into the cigarette lighter to keep the battery charged while he isn’t driving it.
Michael tried to give me a ride on the bike, but while we were going up the grassy hill next to Coop’s driveway, Michael made too sharp of a turn and we fell. Everyone was fine, and the bike suffered only a minor scratch on its left tail light, but it freaked me out enough to stay off the bike until after we left. I would eventually still like to learn to ride a bike and a horse. Hey, don’t laugh. When Planet of the Apes comes true, I’ll be the one galloping on ahead of you on the big ass horse, leaving you for the crazy monkeys. Anyway, on with the day.
Let’s see, after the bike (and playing with all of Coop’s cool stuff for about an hour), we headed back to work by way of Liquid Highway.
Unfortunately, Alecia doesn’t work on weekends (and I’d only seen her like once, maybe twice that past week anyway) so it was less enjoyable than I’d hoped.
Back at work, Michael checked his email briefly and checked a few phone-related things, after which we installed some software on a new desktop I didn’t finish setting up on Friday, then we did a test restart of the phone server, just to make sure everything still worked fine and that I could handle it.
After we wrapped that up it was back to the airport for dinner at the bar (you’d be surprised how good their clam chowder is) before he shipped out.
So my day wasn’t the most exciting, but it was quite possibly the last day I’ll ever see Michael again, so I wanted to makes sure it was at least remembered in all its hum-drum-ness.