Honey, I'm Home

My brain is fried from driving a total of 1350 miles between Thursday morning at 10:40 (I left town a bit late) and tonight at 6:10 pm when I got home. So I used the miles of driving to take notice of a few things and take count....

• Total miles driving: 1350
• Total number of stops: 9 (to pee, to gas up, to sleep)
• Number of roadside naps as part of these stops: 3, yes, I sleep in my car
• Rivers crossed (that I can remember)
• Root River
• Cheyenne River
• Missouri River--6 times! Figure that one out!
• Time line crossed: just one but again, 6 times!
• Top price for a gallon of gas: $2.79 at Chamberlain, SD
• I-90 Driving Conditions: in Serious need of repair
• Number of Idiot Drivers between here and there: Too damn many to count!
  
• Road goodies consumed
• One old fashion chocolate donut
• One large cup of Karuba coffee with cream
• One liter of Mountain Dew
• Two liters of water
• One small bag gummy worms
• One small bag melted and re-gelled gummy bears (they taste the same but have little bitty bubbles in them)
• Half pound of Nibs (red ones)
• One junior bacon cheeseburger, small fry and a small Frosty (takes serious talent to eat a Frosty while driving 85 mph)
• One bag reduced fat Italian Gherdetto chips
• One six piece gas station mozarello sticks
• Half of a small package of peanut M&Ms
• One liter Cool Blue Powerade
• Two McD's cheese burgers
• Animals seen (dead or alive)
• Cows: in the thousands (and lots of fresh calves running and jumping in the sun)
  
• Tatonka: (that's Lakota for Buffalo if you haven't seen Dances of Wolves) in the hundreds
• Pheasants: in the hundreds, maybe a thousand total
• Bugs: A billion squished on my windshield (and that damn blue shit at the gas station does NOT take them off, just smears them good)
• Badger: one but he was PISSED OFF
• Horses: At least a 100 or 200
  
• Dinosaur: One, constructed out of scrap metal with a human on a leash
• Turkeys: there's a flock of about 17 in mom and dad's yard
• Raccoons: one scurrying out of the shed, a few dead along the road
• Farm cats: too many to count but one very pregnant one hanging out on the front porch at mom and dad's
• Sheep: again, hundreds and with fuzzy baby lambs
• Dogs: One at the nursing home, one dead on the interstate and a third on the shoulder looking at his dead buddy (YES, I CRIED and NO, I wasn't the one that hit it!) :(
• Naps taken at home: Too many to count
• Earliest I got up this weekend: 4:45 am! Sunrise Mass on Sunday :)
  
• Temperature range: 80+ degrees on Thrusday, in the mid 40's today
  
• Average MPH OVER the posted speed limit
• Going: at least 12-15 over
• Coming back: only about 7-10 over
• Number of speeding tickets: NONE!
• Two Minnesota Highway Patrol on the other side of the road
• One Tribal Sheriff in an SUV who played games with me for 10 miles before blowing by me
• One South Dakota Highway Patrol at the on ramp in Mitchell but he got stuck at the light :)
• Number of cats happy to have me home : 2!

Now, a hot cup of tea and to bed with myself a bit early! I'm on call tomorrow.