Anyway, I sit here typing away because my flight doesn't come for another hour and a half, and I seem to remember leaving my log on an odd note, almost as if I had gone out to get something to eat in the middle of an entry. Imagine that! So here I sit, having had no sleep because I knew I wouldn't be able to get up in time to go to the airport had I gone to bed.

Once again, my luggage was the target of a 'random' security search. I'm starting to think that my chances of getting searched have less to do with coincidence and more to do with looking like an iranian terrorist and always wearing black clothes and b lack everything and traveling alone and buying my tickets at the last minute. Neh. That's probably just my paranoia acting up again.

On the way to the angsthaus (residence of the above servers), we were reading a road map, trying to figure out where to turn. Suddenly, an ambulance appeared directly behind our car, lights on and siren blaring. We didn't notice it up until the moment the driver came on the loudspeaker and yelled "PULL TO THE RIGHT AND STOP!#!#%". Ed pulled to the right, stopped.

The police escort pulled us over after the ambulance passed, and gave us a semi-demeaning reminder on how to drive, etc. Ed, not wanting to be delayed very much, refrained from saying anything like: "Oh no, officer. I haven't been drinking. Oh, maybe one beer, but I've also been eating like a FUCKING PIG." The fine for not pulling over is $750. Whew. Just a warning that time.

Well, typing sitting down like this is uncomfortable, and the slow net connection is irritating. I'm gonna end this now. Who knows if I'll be able to post the fourth of july entry tomorrow.