DATELINE: Baltimore, MD

I'm packing up & driving home in about an hour. It's been a good week that's gone pretty quickly. I got to meet up with Kristen & my friend Dan (from the Bingo anthro department). Kristen & I met at a fancy pizza place in the parking lot of some random mall. Dan & I went to a bar near his apartment and as we were walking in I realized it was across the street from the cake shop on the "Ace of Cakes" show. I peeked in the window & saw a slightly larger-than-life sized human spine cake. Very exciting.

Because I was driving around outside of downtown Baltimore I didn't see any other interesting sights, except for a soul food restaurant that advertised Pigs Feet, Hogs Maws, and Chittlin's. Yuck.

I want to thank everyone who sent notes or I talked too after we took Mr. Droolface to the big tuna fish buffet in the sky. Your thoughts helped me so much in dealing with the loss of Droolsy, aka ODB, aka Brian, aka Big Baby Jesus, aka Sir Stinks-a-lot, aka Old Man Kitty, aka Yellie.

I'mm off to the Pennsylvania Turnpike!