10-26-2022, 08:45 AM
We're back. Spent about a week up there.
A hectic drive up. I've never enjoyed driving, but appreciate the freedom it affords. But now it's more stressful. Unlike many older drivers, I know my skills have not sharpened with age. I cannot look aside without drifting, and I have to continuously and quickly correct, to compensate for slowed reflexes. So it's exhausting. I was hoping LCF would do most of the driving, but her foot started bothering her early going up. Something about a recent break. So I did more driving than expected -- with the constant worry that a cop would stop us and have concerns about my unbalance if I had to get out of the car.
Coming down was even more hectic. I did a 4-hour stint around Oregon, then two hours in the flats of CA. LCF handled Shasta and other winds and climbs. What made it more nerve-wracking was the quantum state of the guns in the trunk. LCF was in email contact with an authority about the rules for entering CA with them, but the weekend hit before it was resolved, and we had to take off. So if it was legal, we transported them in the trunk. If not, we didn't. Fortunately, no cop had us pop the trunk to collapse the wave function.
(Sometime back DM asked if any of us had guns: http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=5597&pid=40133&highlight=ruger#pid40133 And I gave a rather cryptic answer. Hopefully what I've described here has clarified the matter.)
The other concern was the quantum state of the denatured alcohol in the back seat. Allegedly five 1-gallon cans. It's not available in CA anymore, because it's a major ingredient for Meth. But LCF has friends in dire need of it for jewelry work, or casting, something like that. So she agreed to act as their supplier, maybe, so we might have had that in the back seat awaiting quantum collapse.
More to come.
A hectic drive up. I've never enjoyed driving, but appreciate the freedom it affords. But now it's more stressful. Unlike many older drivers, I know my skills have not sharpened with age. I cannot look aside without drifting, and I have to continuously and quickly correct, to compensate for slowed reflexes. So it's exhausting. I was hoping LCF would do most of the driving, but her foot started bothering her early going up. Something about a recent break. So I did more driving than expected -- with the constant worry that a cop would stop us and have concerns about my unbalance if I had to get out of the car.
Coming down was even more hectic. I did a 4-hour stint around Oregon, then two hours in the flats of CA. LCF handled Shasta and other winds and climbs. What made it more nerve-wracking was the quantum state of the guns in the trunk. LCF was in email contact with an authority about the rules for entering CA with them, but the weekend hit before it was resolved, and we had to take off. So if it was legal, we transported them in the trunk. If not, we didn't. Fortunately, no cop had us pop the trunk to collapse the wave function.
(Sometime back DM asked if any of us had guns: http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=5597&pid=40133&highlight=ruger#pid40133 And I gave a rather cryptic answer. Hopefully what I've described here has clarified the matter.)
The other concern was the quantum state of the denatured alcohol in the back seat. Allegedly five 1-gallon cans. It's not available in CA anymore, because it's a major ingredient for Meth. But LCF has friends in dire need of it for jewelry work, or casting, something like that. So she agreed to act as their supplier, maybe, so we might have had that in the back seat awaiting quantum collapse.
More to come.