Will finish the trip report later, but thought folks ought to know about this deal!
[hat tip: SlickDeals.net]
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Waited for the Beltway traffic to die down before heading out Thursday morning. Got to Chatham, NJ around 2ish, where we met up with Jason Haddox 
, who is working on his Ph.D in liturgics at Drew (quite a long way from his Baptist roots in Baytown!). We had a late lunch, then got a tour of the Drew campus followed by the church where Jason works. They dropped me off at the train station, and I made it over to Woodbridge, where Eb’s dinner was to be. Eb, needless to say, was late, as was everyone else save Eb’s friend Keith. Greg’s train got stopped in Trenton because of a fire on the tracks, and he had to take a cab. Lotto and I left at 8 to pick up Gil, and Eb got to the restaurant after we left (less than 90 minutes late!).
Dinner was pretty good, then we went to Karim’s house and played poker til 3
, interrupted by a White Castle break
. It was a really wild party:
Had a pretty uneventful drive from Tennessee to Virginia (although we did notice that the number of idiot drivers increased substantially the closer we got to DC, and we did pass a dump truck with it’s cargo on fire
). Got to Glenn’s brother’s and sister-in-law’s house around 6:30, where we ate steak and played with Glenn’s nieces. Unfortunately, for got to take pics there…sorry.
Glenn came over around 9, and we hit the road, stopping in Beaumont to get a car charger for his cell phone and a three-way adapter for the cigarette lighter to plug in all the toys. Got to Henderson
around 12:30 and had lunch at Pat’s
: mmm, mmm good! Saw a Humvee with a rocket launcher
on the back of a flat bed, a Geo with Illinois plates and Rice parking lot decals
, and a truck with a cowbell where the spare should have been.
Despite the late start, we made it to Chattanooga before 11 (midnight Eastern), but the Comfort Suites, which advertised Free Wireless, failed to deliver. Will take it up with management in the morning.
[time passes]
Got them to give us the room for free! Woohoo! this update posted from an Exxon near Burlington, TN. Will put up pics later.
[updated with pics]
Math prof James Propp has created a very neat logic test, the Self-Referential Aptitude Test, that I spent the better part of the evening solving. The guys at Drunken Men Work Here have posted a version that checks for internal consistency.
I made an answer sheet grid to help me solve it that you are welcome to use.
I am such a geek.
[hat tip: boingboing]