Moxy Früvous at the Somerville Theatre in Boston

The plan is to leave Corning on the morning of the 21st, Sunday, drive to Putney, VT to get Jesse Brown's computer for ThanksLANing, get Jesse and drive to Boston for this concert. We see the show, take Jesse back to school, and spend night at Bob's house in Northampton, MA. On Monday, the 22nd, we head back to NY state. I need to stop at Cornell University in Ithaca to look around so that skipping school is ok with my dad, but the group (whatever group there is) can hang out in Ithaca at the time. Everyone gets back home by sometime on Monday.

Attending-
Dylan Flipse
Tom Smith
Sam Corbett
(Plus Jesse Brown and three friend, who we pick up en route in Putney, VT)

Or that was the plan anyway. Jesse called us at Tom's house early Sunday morning, said he couldn't go because the dean of students went all lame on them. But, he still had one friend who could come along and we had a ticket for her AND we had to get his computer for ThanksLANing. So, Tom and I got Sam, headed toward Putney. Sam brought the 486 SLC-33 laptop he and I bought at auction with a dead battery, and we picked up a power converter at Kmart for it. Plugged it in (laptops wants about 18amps, converter from the ciggarette lighter wants to supply 4.5) and blew the fuse in it pretty quickly. Took care of that with the wire from a twistie tie, but found that after that it just overheated. We spent the next hour and a half furiously drinking our Coke, Sprite, Pepsi, and Dr. Pepper reserves. Then, using the masking tape I'd thoughtfully picked up and Sam's pocket knife, Tom skillfully fashioned a duct from the air conditioner vent to the converter, which cooled it right down. From then on, we had Tom pretty much entertained with Solitaire, but were also able to take down the license number of the psycho Canadian trucker we saw. Laptops are a good thing. We got to Putney, found Jesse ready to leave for some minor chorus concert thing, got his computer, and went to the thing but felt all around bad about ourselves because it was in a church. (In no time at all, I'd taken the Lord's name in vain, Sam had spit on church property, and Tom was actually in a church.) We got this girl (her name is Grace) after her little chorus shindig and headed to Boston. We parked at a mall, rode the T (Red line!) into Boston, and magically met up with Nutty and Jiff outside the show.

This was the point where my life changed. Sarah Slean was the opening act, and I fell in love. Not like I love Moxy and TMBG, but I'm actually in love with Sarah. She's only 21, goes to the University of Toronto, I'm pretty sure we can make it work. This sounds like I'm downplaying it, but Moxy put on their usual stellar show. The place is a theater kinda situation, and we were pretty much looking down on the band from our high-up seats. Pretty cool.

After the show, we tried to run up some slanted walls, I drove Nutty and Jiff home, took Grace back to Putney, and made it to Bob's at 4:30AM (Thanks Bob!). We slept till 11:30 or so, and got out of Northampton soon after. Driving west into NY state (with our usual flipse.com signs displayed), a black Camaro pulled up beside me. First I tried to race it, and that gave everyone a good laugh, but the guys in it were waving. So I rolled down my window, and the passenger asked "What's flips?" Close enough, I figured, and I told him it was my last name. Then I offered him a Sprite. I proceeded to use my right hand to steer closer and my left hand to stretch out as far as I could with the can. He snagged it and they drove off. Quite cool. After a short stop at the mall in Syracuse (Hey, it's got a Best Buy!), we drove down into Ithaca, drove around the Cornell campus, and decided it was ok. (That was my visit, hehe.) Got lost coming out of Ithaca, but finally got Sam, and then Tom, and finally myself home. It was sometime after 10:00PM on Monday. The trip I've mentioned started at about 8AM on Sunday. I drove 1123 miles during that time. Worth every single one.

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