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Evening Drive

This feels like the first year I haven't had time to think about Melissa's anniversary.

This week has been very busy at work, and on top of that I had to go in to court the last two days for jury duty. Two days of jury selection, and my name was never called. But still I had to sit in those uncomfortable benches and pay attention. For two days. While they whittled the pool of possible jurors from 45 to 3. And I got absolutely nothing accomplished besides a numb derriere.

But after the jury selection was complete, and after I emptied my inbox, and after I took my lunch break late enough that I could leave early and after I ate dinner and after I went to my accounting class where I'm sure I aced an accounting quiz, I decided to go for a drive.

It was 8.30 and the sun had just set. I turned Rammstein up to 11 and opened up my sunroof (then turned up the heat) (it was 40°F tonight). I pointed my car south and drove just to drive. Here are some things I learned and rediscovered:

• My car drives so smooth above 80mph. I want to drive that speed all the time.
• Although cloudy over Anchorage, it was crystal clear across the inlet and I could see that Mt. Redoubt was still venting.
• Rammstein still rocks.
• Mt. Dew is really not very good. I haven't drank a soda in a very long time, and I don't see the need to drink another ever again.
• It's best to pull over when crying. See 80mph, above.
• It might be 7 years, but I still really, really miss my sister.