Road Trip Checklist
I’m traveling across the state to see Oldest Son compete in a track meet tomorrow. He’s 16 tomorrow, and I thought it would be cool to be down there for that. I’m leaving tonight after school to be with my wife who is in the area right now. Just a quick list of things to get ready:
- Oil change, check
- Fill-up ($77 worth–yes, I have to take the pick-up), check
- 512M iPod Shuffle filled with the latest podcasts from:
- Car Talk, check
- NPR News Summary, check
- NPR Story of the Day, check
- Practical Principals, check
- Most recent free Starbucks download, check
- Random selections from my music catalog to fill up the remaining space, check
- CD case, just in case the above isn’t enough, check
- Gum, check
- Car wash, but the neighborhood drive-through is down, so no check
- Overnight bag, check
- Digital camera fully charged with plenty of room on the disk for photos and vids of the meet, check
- Fully loaded Starbucks card that I received from an anonymous person this morning, check
- Fully charged laptop (I hope Ronald McDonald House has wi-fi), check
- Map to where I’m going, check
- Cell phone so my Twitter peeps can call me, check
Looks like I’m good to go. I’m using the Modify Timestamp feature in ScribeFire, and I’m setting it to auto-publish at 5pm PST. Let me know how it works.
