Sorry for the delay on the post this morning. I had to run to the bank for Jesus first thing today. Marathon Bars? Marathon Bars.

So, yeah staying up all night is dumb. Well, maybe not if you followed it by going to bed. But chasing an all night coffee bender with walking 4.2km (2.6 miles) and then working all day is so extremely dumb. There were moments during my day when I actually nodded off while walking somewhere. Yeah, so stumbling around like a drunk person is cool. But, the long and short of it is that I managed to stay awake until bedtime, regardless of the hallucinations, and proceeded to pass right the hell out.

You’re probably wondering why I stayed up all night. Good question. I asked myself that same question many times yesterday. Let me back up to Tuesday and explain. I worked all day in the new house. Mainly grouting the tile I laid on Monday. Then I came home and installed my new stove and dishwasher with Lord Steel Bear. Then I took a shower. Around this time, Little Miss Cotton called to inform me that since it was Bean’s last night in town she wanted everyone to come over and stay up all night to hang out. After consulting the 20-sided die, I realized that this was the course of action I was supposed to take. Even though I knew it was stupid.

So, I brewed a pot of coffee and headed over with Zaxxon. I should have known that I was the only one destined to stay up all night, when I noticed that everyone else was drinking cocktails and eating “special” brownies. Me: coffee. Anyways, Zaxxon left after a couple of hours and that brought the party down to Dave, Little Miss Cotton, Bean, Oxi Lox, and me. Then Dave crashed out owing to his having to drive all the way to Little Rock the next day. Little Miss Cotton lasted another couple of hours. Down to three. Then, Oxi Lox, Bean, and I sat up talking about video games and Kung Fu. Then Oxi had to crash because she had to work that morning. Me and Bean. We talked mostly about weird hippy wedding ceremonies involving hour long eye gazing sessions and watched YouTube clips of Jackie Chan doing drunken fist. Then it was 7am and I had to go to work.

So I started walking. Luckily, it didn’t start raining until about 48th Street.

And then it was coffee all day and keep moving. As long as I was moving, I was awake-ish. I finished up the grouting stuff and installed some under-cabinet lighting. Then it was home for the pre-road trip chili cheese burrito gorge-a-thon. Suckers.

Oh, and I saw this when I got home:

Eazy was totally hanging out in the Kittey Shanty Town.

Also, my newly rebuilt Chacos got here just in time for my adventure to Houston. Which is happening any second now. I’d better go pack up the lappie. Send us good road trip vibes. More soon. ~SC