Reno was a big disappointment. Honestly, if I had known just how lame that city is, I would have stayed the night two hours down the road in Winnemucca, where the room would have been cheaper (maybe not as nice -- but I did not really need two queen-size beds) and I would have been closer to getting home the next day. The one nice thing I did in Reno was to see a casino show. It was "Smokey Joe's Cafe," which is a great musical revue, and it was a decent 90-minute show for $30. But my time in town was so windy and the downtown was so filthy that I was completely unimpressed -- especially compared to Las Vegas.
I had made it to Reno in good time. I had a slight delay in Carson City, just about 35 miles south of Reno, when my engine light came on. After all my car troubles, I stopped at a dealership and had it checked. A hose was loose, the worker plugged it back in, and 10 minutes later I was on my way. No problem. Whew!
The rest of my trip back to Wenatchee was mostly uneventful as well. It took me about 13 hours to make the drive from Reno, which included several gas and pit stops and very slow travel through the mountains of southern Oregon with their windy roads and steep climbs. I also hit a bird. It was flying. I looked back to see that it was a bird and kept going. I am sure it was dead. Sorry, bird.
I have spent the four days since returning home trying to dig out of the pile of tasks that had accumulated while I was away. Mainly these included work for the summer journalism workshop for which I am the co-director and registrar, as well as major projects for my online classes. So, despite the fact that I have spent about 30 hours at this computer since returning to Wenatchee, I have not felt motivated to compose any entries. However, as of tonight, I am officially caught up.
I'll spend some time in the next couple days alternating with maintaining the yard, this Weblog and my projects. That is what summer should be like, not cooped up in a small town with nowhere to go or furiously working on a class project for hours at a time. The upside is that I am practically an expert on legal issues regarding students using Web sites to criticize their schools and being punished by the school for it, which was the topic of my 15-page research paper.
I can't wait until next summer when I am done with my master's degree and all the work. Ten months and counting.
-- Wenatchee, Wash.
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