Do I stay or go?

Do I stay or do I go??? RAAM 2005

Today I did not do any training and I feel bad about it.  I had intentions of working but never got around to it.  I am signed up for this online class and they sent me a ton of emails with stuff that I need to study.  I was up until midnight trying to figure out how to download my printer stuff online since my granddads dog ate my cd that came with the printer...damn dog.  I actually figured it out and have been printing out stuff all day to study.  I really hate to read and I have a ton of stuff to read before my class tomorrow night.

Arkansas-  I have looked at the weather a million times today and I am wondering if I should go or not.  The forcast is calling for a 50 percent chance of rain so I am not sure what the heck to do.  I really do not want to be in the rain and cold all 3 days camping but I really do want to run.  I will look at another 3 forcasts in the morning before I decide.  Right now it is all up in the air.  I do have my fingers crossed that I get to go.  It is all up to me and with the luck I have had the past two years the clouds will be there when I arrive.  I always call my cousin Donna to see what she thinks so she will be getting a call from me in the morning.  I have to have someone to blame it on if I go and get wet.

The Banana Mobile-  This is my conversion van that looks like an ice cream truck cause of all the stickers on it.  This weekend some of them were removed and the ones that are still up are mostly my fault.  I have all these darn banana stickers on it and that is what really make the van look so bad.  They are still up so I guess it does not bother me that much.  My T.V. has been broken since a parking garage ran in to me...it ran into me...i did not run into it.  The parking garage put a nice skylight in my van and I guess it has damaged the TV.  I was messing around with this TV this weekend and left the cover off of it so today it ended up falling out and landing on the floor of the van.  Someone told me to hit the TV to get it working so if falling  5ft does not get it going then nothing will.  Looks like the laptop will be my entertainment this weekend.

RAAM 2005-  This is a funny crew mistake that I am responsible for.  My teammate and I made a trip to Sam's and got tons of food that we thought the crew might eat.  This was before we had gotten the RV so we were thinking that we would have all kinds of room to put all this food in.  We piled it all in the middle of the garage and let me tell you.........it was a ton of food.  We got the RV a day before we were planning to depart and there was no way that any of the food was going to fit on the RV or any of the crews bags.  There was hardly any storage under the RV.  All that shopping and for nothing.  Well there is nothing like having a good old doctor teammate to fix the problem.  He just went and bought a brand new nice trailer to save the day.  I have asked others that have done RAAM and most of them have never seen someone use a large RV and a trailer for the race.  What is worse is that the crew never even got any of the food out of the trailer...they would still go into all the stores and buy the same stuff and expect the teammate to pay for it.  Almost all of the food ended up back here in Lubbock, Tx.  We were all a bunch of rookies and you could tell as soon as we pulled into the parking lot.

Thanks for reading

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Mar 11 2008, shanna