I woke up at 3:30 but couldn’t get my lazy ass out of bed. Woke again at 7:15.
Author: Doug McCaughan
Father of 5.
Juggler.
Ticked off at blogger.com.
Stay away from the software industry
No sane person should ever voluntarily enter into the software industry. We have mental institutions that haven’t experience crazy on this level.
Of Grasshoppers
Student: I drive to work each day thinking of the numerous ways I failed my children.
Master: Yet you go to work every day.
State of me
Good day gone to bad in 30 seconds flat over something that didn’t fucking matter but it was a no win situation.
Megabus status
Wife braved the lavatory. She has renamed me “liar.”
Megabus status
super secret bus driver exchange.
Megabus status
I asked the child to read or look out the window…he went to sleep.
Megabus status – the deep blue sea
Megabus status: My 9 year old traveling companion decided a trip to the water closet was in order. My only experience to allow me preconceptions is airplane lavatories with their tight confines, lack of sound proofing for the nearby passengers, and sucking whoosh of the blue cleansing of the stainless steel bowl. I sent the youth in first and am glad he returned. The Megabus lavatory compared to an airplane is rather spacious with white polished fiberglass surfaces not dissimilar to my home bath. This one in particular was remarkably clean. The big difference is that the Megabus toilet resembles a portapotty where the airplane has a stainless steel bowl with a flap that opens upon flushing to let you play bombardier and pretend you’ve just launched something on the unsuspecting persons 30000 feet below the bus instead has the same stainless steel but the opening is large enough to lose a child to the sloshing blue sea of yuck.
In other news, the driver read about my how pleased I was with the air conditioning and turned on the heater.
Megabus status
I was settled in and comfortable so my wife had me move.
Megabus status
Journey underway. Despite being second in line only 2 of the 4 front seats secured. In other news, we scored 2 front seats! The bus is clean. Windshield not cracked and almost perfectly clear. Air conditioning is working (knock on wood). I even have an empty seat beside me. The only negative thus far is that apparently they were out of shock absorbers and had to install pogo sticks instead about as long as you hold your arms up in the air and scream “wheeee” it’s really not that bad.
Megabus status
Megabus status: Part 2 “The Migration South” has begun. Civilization has evolved. The natives have grown elbow room. Climate change has brought cooler temperatures!
Megabus status
And now the Megabus journey is complete
Megabus Status
The natives were satiated by the impromptu stop. Peace found between the clans. Giddiness resuscitated as a rail line appeared simultaneously indicating our close proximity to the promised land as well as an alternative yet perhaps only slightly less hellish means of transport.
Mild skirmishes threaten to erupt as Lower and Upper pushed to rapidly exit the now mobile roaming realm bringing back ancestral memories of our youthful days and fights during the Great Eternal Drive. But as the rush of cool, exhaust filled, urine tainted, dead rat stinking air inflated our withered lungs, love grew again between the clans for we survived The Ordeal.
Luggage retrieved, I turn to my wife, “We should try an Uber!”
Megabus status
What’s it like on the upper deck of a Megabus with no a/c in a rain storm? Remember the Santa Maria…
MegaRain
