live anywhere near ventura? driving there? want company?
ok, i’m poor. and while i had planned on driving, i can’t imagine myself breaking the news to chris that i’m going to be gone for three days *with the car*. but i will if i have to. that doesn’t mean i can actually have the car, it just means i can break the news.
and it’s not happy when its A/C is running, but i can just roll the windows down in the desert, right?
i’ve found a floor to crash on, i hope, but …. look, i meant to have more money by now. i meant to be making more money. i know i’m spending less. but i live in ventura on enough money to live prosperously in like … some other part of the country. i shouldn’t even live here, i just dig the weather. and … oh man. i’m a bum, is what it is.
maybe i can stay home and administer some kind of group blogcon blog and live it vicariously. that, i could afford to do.
Isn’t Jon driving from SD?
you have to go.
I’ll need a guarantee that you’re going or I’m gonna do something totally irrational. You know how to reach me.
san diego is very, very far from here – five hours-ish. and most of that would be out of the way.
these are the possible outcomes of me driving: (a) i make it ok, just a little warm. the long drive with fresh oil and good gas and fuel injector cleaner does good things for the engine. perhaps i even discover that at freeway speeds, the A/C doesn’t make the car run like crap.
(b) the car dies, in which case i run it till it catches *fire*, then the insurance pays off the loan and i start fresh with a different car. not a bad thing. i have solid analog cellular coverage in the desert. i think. anyway, i’ll pack with the thought of being stranded in the desert.
and this is me being a worrywort, i have to worry, it’s my job, ok? what are the chances of a seven year old buick with 110,000 miles on it deciding it wants to die in the desert? lots of people do this sort of thing all the time.
probably they have air conditioning though. i should check it on the freeway — i know that in town, the A/C makes the car powerless.
i’m babbling alot because i’m nervous and excited, good grief, blogcon is two and a half weeks away!
i just checked and it’s only 328 miles. i mean. that’s like, nothing. sort of. i thought it was much further.
Ok, there are enough LA bloggers going to this that I’m pretty sure we can get you a ride. I’m going to post on LA Blogs either this evening or tomorrow morning–maybe we can get a Friday carpool/caravan. (Fran and I aren’t coming in until Saturday.)
really, i can drive, it’s ok. i mean, a seven year old buick is not that decrepit of a car, is it? sure it’s not a new fancy shiny car like most people in southern california have, but it’s … still nice. it is.
Southwest Airlines, $89 roundtrip from Las Angeles to Vegas…that’s an option, too. (I just looked it up on their site)
Road Trip! (But NO Tom Green allowed)
There are tons of LA Bloggers going to BlogCon, right? Riiiiight?? ahem. Here’s the deal: Let’s say you have the
ok. if you factor in getting to and from the airport(s), either driving and parking and taxi at the other, or taking shuttles both ways, that figure would go waaaay up. and there are my issues with airplanes. not huge issues, but significant.
why do you people hate my buick? oh, i may have insulted her, but she’s still my little baby car. i shouldn’t talk crap about my babycar. she’s pretty tough. really.
Well, I just blogged–on my blog and on LA Blogs. I know there are people leaving Friday who need hookups, too. We’ll get you there, no worries. There just seems to be no need for 30 people to drive 30 separate cars to wind up in the SAME PLACE. (plus, I’ve had a few people over there mention carpools–so I know there are people who don’t want to drive alone).
You gotta go. I mean, you are like the blog QUEEN! I’m not going, but you GOTTA!
this is true – that many people in that many cars would be silly.
but i’m still pretty out of the way for people from LA.
kd! What sort of icon of bumhood and slack are you if you turn down free rides?
well, … if i can find someone that will pick me up at my house, out of their way, and drive me to vegas, there’s that.
however, my car’s not running that bad. i also discovered that the A/C no longer impacts performance, it runs just fine with the A/C on. the A/C, however, blows air that is only slightly warmer than it is outside.
however leaving at like 4am would probably be a good thing, i could get there while the temperature was still relatively low.
and, i am still enough of a bum that i’m crashing on someone’s floor, or thereabouts.
kd, you’re only out of the way from LA in the driver lives in Boyle Heights, for cryin’ out loud. That’s SoCal, for goodness sake; I used to work in Culver City with a woman who drove from China Lake to get there!
oops…”if” the driver…grins
i know, i know, we drive a lot here, we’re the sort of people that characterize a 328 mile drive as no big deal. many people do that in a week.
remains to be seen, if anyone wants to drive up here to get my slacker ass. if not, i have determined that i can make it in my buick. because this is blogcon dammit, and whatever it takes.
Boy, I wish I were able to ride shotgun with you. Tell you what, swing by and pick me up, and by golly, I’ll do it
not sure how the buick runs through deep water, pretty sure it doesn’t but if i had one of those cool amphibious vehicles, you know i would.
Wish there was some way I could help you, but I live way out in the middle of flyoverland. If anybody should be there, it’s you.
*idea*
Maybe you could set up another Paypal account and ask for donations for the BlogCon, jhames.com set one up and got enough money to help get a plane ticket… Look at all the people you’ve helped, and all you’d need would be car rental and pocket money. I get paid this Friday, I’d donate.
i ask for money all the time. you know, for the hosting fund, then i did the blogathon, i can’t start another fundraiser.
oddly enough, someone just spontaneously sent me money. which made me cry at work.
it’s very sweet but i feel like such a bum.
Hypothetical situation: If somebody wanted to pitch into a BlogThon fund, would they be remiss in using the Paypal account for the Surreally hosting fund, and then letting you know what it was for? Purely a hypothetical situation.
I don’t think a check sent to “kd in Ventura CA” would get to you (however somehow kids send letters to Santa Claus at the North Pole, and they supposedly somehow get to him).
I meant “BlogCon”, not BlogThon.
hypothetically, the hosting fund is a very casual arrangement, with the funds going into the same bank account that the hosting charges get paid out of.
I have a Buick, and I can tell you from experience — both deep water and muddy fields are bad. They survive, but they don’t drive well.
it’s only a desert. really. long dry drive. she’s fulla coolant. she can go up hills. she is a good car.