Arkansas, ho

[jazzfish]

With some assistance from vond and jedibfa, and moral support from nixve and uilos, I pulled the files I desperately needed to back up onto my backup hard drive and reinstalled Win2K this morning. Seems to have taken okay, although I may be on a quest for an ethernet card driver on floppy disk [or CD] when I get back in town next weekend.

I'm on the road to Arkansas right now, travelling to visit extended family. This'll be my first visit in about five years, so normally I'd expect to be under some heavy scrutiny from elder relatives. Luckily Jamie has saved me from all this by the simple expedient of giving birth late last month. Kylie Adell Welch [her middle name was my grandmother's; you can mock her first name all you want, though] will be the main focus of attention, and I couldn't be happier.

For once we're not making the eighteen-hour trip in a single day. Instead we've stopped for the night in Cookeville, which is [says Dad] about in the middle of Tennessee. All I know is they've got free wireless in the Holiday Inn (and it's got its own website, too!), so they get a big thumbs up from me. Dad's also rented a gigantic van in which to travel. This is a big step up from my memory of Christmas travel, being packed into the middle seat of a minivan with Jamie because the entire back of said minivan was filled with suitcases and Xmas loot. It's very strange to have leg room.

Hm. I thought I had more to say. Oh well. Unless they have wireless in either Hoxie or Helena I'll probably be offline for real 'til Satyrday. Don't burn the place down while I'm away.

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Comments

[rbandrews]

I don't see how Kylie is a name worthy of mockery.
Hoxie, on the other hand... : )

[stephaniesmom.livejournal.com]

I can never remember whether we stayed in Cookeville or Crossville when we were in Tennessee... Whichever, it was a Holiday Inn, so it may have been the same.