On the Road Pt. 2

I am spending the second night at my friend's house. Surprise! He has wireless DSL. He lives in a beautiful four-bedroom home with a huge living room, kitchen and dining room, and more room in the back for a utility room. The price he paid? $25,000. That's about a year's rent for me. I attended my reunion tonight and it went well. Then, we gathered at a classmate's house, as we do every time and talked and ate yet more. No alcohol, no smokers, just fun. I haven't been to a party like that since the last time I had a reunion. These are really great people and if I didn't have to earn a living, I'd move back here in a heartbeat -- to a town with a population of 400. At least, that's what my friend Lorence tells me. I think there are actually only 12 people and we just keep running into them a dozen times a day. I had to go to Jamestown, about an hour's drive north of here to get a pair of pants and a shirt, since my suit was too wrinkled to wear -- no place to get a suit pressed. No clothing store. No barber shop. But nobody dressed up that much for the reunion. I've been eating about every two hours. Today, I had breakfast. Then I had lunch. Then we went to Lorence's daughter's house for her two-year-old's birthday party. Then, we ate again at the reunion. And then again at the party afterwards. That's five meals. Of course, I didn't HAVE to eat any of them. Just being sociable. Jusssssst being sociable. I went to the neighboring town yesterday to see the house where I lived with my grandma for the last two years of school. It looked just like a house that had been standing empty for the past 30 years. Not a chip of paint on it, all gray, and a part of the roof was caved in. The gravel road that used to run by it is now a prairie road -- which means two ruts in the high grass. It was really sad. I spent some of the best years of my life in that house. I didn't even look inside. No telling what kind of wild beast is making it home. Haven't been watching the news, so I have no idea what's going on. I'm living the life of leisure. Might as well make the best of it before I get back to the daily grind. Bedtime. We retire early here on the prairie. More later. Oh, Laura Ingraham returns to her show Monday.