November 15, 2009
“Adventures” in Arkansas, Part 1
Hello! I’m writing you from Arkansas, where the hotels don’t believe every room should include a pen and notepad! What a crazy world I am in right now.
Getting here, however, didn’t really pose too many problems. For the navigation to the hotel, the TomTom worked like a dream. I had absolutely no issues coming here, only stopping to grab some BeeK for a moment, which the TomTom did not seem to appreciate. I’m sorry, GPS, but I am not a robot! I sometimes must feed.
The GPS worked significantly less effectively finding my nightly entertainment, however, I looked up movie times on internet, and I tried to program the address of the biggest theatre (I wanted to get into, I dunno, something resembling a city) into the TomTom. It said my address didn’t exist, but here’s a place near where that would be. Foolishly, I trusted, and I spend close to 2 fucking hours trying to find this phantom movie theatre before I finally decided to Google Maps it on my phone, of all things, and found it quickly. I made it barely in time to get in before the previews ended, but not early enough to get something to eat, so I kind of wasted money on popcorn instead of dinner, so healthy of me.
Still, the movie was good. Not Fantastic Mr. Fox, unfortunately, as this apparently isn’t “selected theaters,” but I did see Where the Wild Things Are, a good movie that I need more time to percolate on before I write up. So I’ll do that tonight, or something.
Anyway, I best get going. I’m writing this the morning before my presentation, and I want to give myself plenty of time to get lost as hell again. More, ah, “adventures” as they develop! Away!