Time In Illinois :: Day Three

It really bugs the hell out of me how little there is to do here in Springfield if you are in the 18-34 demo. If you don't golf there really is nothing! We have a couple of clubs, that haven't been shut down yet, but as far as I can tell, there's not a lot!

It didn't help that I was driving around looking for something to do on a Sunday. Instead of everything in town closing at 10PM, on Sunday it closes at six. I ended up spending the afternoon at Applebee's nursing a couple of Corona's and wondering how the hell I managed to survive here as long as I did.

I guess that if I hadn't had the taste of a real city in my mouth (Minneapolis/St. Paul and now Las Vegas), I wouldn't complain so much.

Then again, I enjoy complaining...

Like I said, most of the day was spent driving around looking for someplace to drink. Afterwards I rolled over to Troy and Nancy's for a free dinner. It's nice coming to visit! Everyone wants to give you stuff! Problem is, if my friends ever come to Vegas, I'll be obliged to buy them dinner!

No problem. $20 and a downtown casino buffet and all is solved.

Later that night I rolled out to the truck stop once again with Jerry. Drank coffee into the wee hours of the morning (wee hours for me now being 12AM... Fuck was I sleepy...). After that we took a stroll around Wal Mart. Wal Mart being the only thing open for 171878927911 miles.

I also took the time to watch a newscast from my former station, WICS. They have a fancy new set, pretty new graphics and a really fucking hot new weekend anchor, Ashley something or other... Wow...

Anyway...

I'd say I'm bored, but I'm really not. I'm enjoying just kind of hanging around. I think my problem is that I need to find stuff to do, when I don't. I just need to relax. I keep checking my email from work, to see if anything interesting awaits me. I found out today that something MAJOR has happened to my show, and I don't know if I am cool with it yet or not. The details haven't been made public, so I won't discuss it yet.

Of course what does it matter to me? I'm simply a disposable camera, the utility photog who really doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things, and I kind of like it that way.

Monday's coming, and I need to stop thinking about things and enjoy my last three and a half days away from Vegas. Hope to meet up with Jason and some of the people from WICS soon. Maybe I can talk them into bringing Ashley Whatshername with us?