I'm in Miles City, Montana tonight. I didn't get as far as I would have liked today because I slept horribly last night. I'm up way to late again tonight. Oh well. I don't really have any set schedule except that I'd like to be home on the friday. It's my 26th birthday. That's closer to 30 than it is to 20, which makes me kind of nervous. I guess I just need to get over the fact that I'm a 'grownup' now. Yech.

Montana is a nice state. It's not rugged like Colorado to its south (I've never been to Wyoming to the immediate south, so I can't speak to that), but it's a hell of a lot greener. I'd take green over rugged any day.

I stopped for lunch at a nice truck stop. I didn't actually stop for lunch, I stopped for gas, but when I went inside to fill my various coffee receptacles I saw that there was a diner attached to the gas station. It was filled with old couples drinking coffee, but no one was eating, so I asked the lady at the gas station area cash register "are they serving lunch over there, ma'am?"
"Honey, they're serving anything you want."
I got biscuits and gravy and hashbrowns even though it was the 3:00 in the afternoon. That's one thing you can't really get in the East. Biscuits and gravy, that is. What is it with truckstops and rediculously huge portions? I'm not complaining, but the four dollar biscuits and gravy was served in a kiddy pool. Is it that truckers don't like stopping, so they eat larger and fewer meals?
The waitress was cute and shy-flirtatious. That always makes sitting at a truck stop counter more fun. We talked about the finer points of tabasco sauce and it's application to hashbrowns.

I listened to Stephen King's latest, "Lisey's Story" on audiobook. It was pretty good. Kind of a cross between Gerald's Game and the Talisman, if you read him at all. Listening to / reading Stephen King makes me want to write. I think that's because his main characters are writers as often as not. When I was reading the Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series I wanted to join the navy. I think I'm just suggestible. Maybe I should get into John Grisham, to help motivate me through law school .

I yeah, and I got my application for a Tom Waits group turned down. What the fuck? How do we not have a Tom Waits group allready?