Syd Luckman and I are working the front desk when a customer walks up.

Syd: Yeah, I read the online spoilers for the new Harry Potter...

Nenie: Syd. I have a few warnings to burn. If you tell me anything, I will punch you.

Yup, it's magic moment time people. It's kinda weird to have the job I have now that the "biggest book ever" is being released. Being on in on the behind the scenes stuff on the retail end of the publishing industry...Thankfully, I have yet to violate the spirit of my NDA.

Your Score: Lion Warning Cat

62 % Affection, 53 % Excitability , 42 % Hunger

You are the good Samaritan of the lolcat world. Protecting others from danger by shouting observations and guidance in cases of imminent threat, you believe in the well-being of everyone.

Link: The Which Lolcat Are You? Test written by GumOtaku on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

A few things:

Spain was awesome.

I have my annual summer cold right now.

Going to Chicago this weekend.

Nena's going to Stanford this weekend.

I applied for a promotion at The Minuteman since Cmdr. Gaffigan is leaving...

Beto got 39MPG on his last tank.

May 17
Leave Albuquerque

May 18
Arrive in Barcelona

May 21
Arrive in Sevilla

May 23
Arrive in Toledo

May 25
Arrive in Caceres

May 27
Arrive in Madrid

May 28
Arrive in Albuquerque

Maybe there will be updates from the road, probably not...see y'all in two weeks.

Cuz we are.

Today is May 5, and it fucking snowed in Santa Fe.

Fucking Al Gore. If he hadn't told us all about this whole earth is melting bullshit, we'd be ignorant of the climate changing on us. If we were ignorant about things like this, it wouldn't have snowed today, on May 5.

Thankfully, the snow didn't stick and by the time I drove home you couldn't have told it snowed earlier in the day.

But still.

It snowed today.

Chas said the snow coming and going the way it did was kinda like an unexpected one night stand.

I said it was more like your one night stand screaming:
"OH BABY, OH YESSS, YOU'RE THE TOP GUN, OH CUBE! AHHHH! OK, thanks, I've gotta go, I'm double parked."

Did I mention it snowed today?

So what's this deal with Liz needing an "escort" to be in someone's bridal party?

Man, those Canadians have some funky wedding customs.

ROAD TRIP!

Taking Maxi home to my parents. Should be a good time...

Anyway, I was sitting on the couch tonight recovering from the past two days when I smelled something strange. What the hell is that? Damn, it smells like ass! BABY ASS!

Yup, Nena has replaced our normal bathroom handsoap with one that smells lke baby ass. It's part talc, part soap and part smell that clean babies have. In short, it smells like baby ass. Clean baby ass, but baby ass none the less.

If nothing else, this is a reminder of how bad journalism has gotten. We lose Mr. Halberstam and have him replaced by Katie Couric. Apples to pears, but apples are extinct these days.

Anyway, Nena went to her parents' this weekend so I was alone when the alarm went off at 6:30a. I rolled around for a second before lying flat on my back and staring at the ceiling. It was kinda like in the original Matrix when Trinity falls flat on her back in the opening sqeuqnce and she wills herself to stand up by repeating "standupstandupstandup."

Didn't work.

Then I thought to myself. "Whatever dude, Cmdr. KITTENS! and Lt. Librarian are already at work and have been for half an hour. Shit, Cmdr. KITTENS! closed last night."

Amazing how motivational realizing it sucks more to be someone else is. I wonder if Anne Lamott's ever written anything about that?

Work's been apeshit busy the past few weeks. Last Saturday we had a really big in-store event that involved a Senator, a Congressman and a few hundred people cramming into the Minuteman to watch the carnival.

After watching the events unfold I've realized two things:

1) There's no Old-Timer's Day in politics.
Gone are the days when you can blow your party's nomination and still matter.

2) Al Gore's got the right idea.
Stay outside the system, do your thing.