Sat 6 May 2006
Well, I hadn’t been able to walk the last couple of days. With the trip out west that I have planned for a couple of weeks from now, I figured that I’d better do what I could about it. So, I threw on a camelbak (didn’t bother getting myself any water in it.. just wanted the backpack.. And then I put a bunch of weight in the back of it. I weighed after I got home. 33 pounds of stuff. So, it was a basic approximation of what it will be like on the trip. Anyway, I was gone about 3.3 hours all together (including the stops) and I walked the following route
for a total of 7.28 miles. From leaving home, I first went to IMPE-East to get a gym membership, and found out that I couldn’t get one there. So, I went to CRC-East, and managed to get my membership set up there. Then, I went up past Beckman where I work so that i could give a mouth swab for testing to see if I’m a good bone marrow donor. Only to find out that they didn’t know anything about it. Come to find out, the document that I got to tell me about it was called May 6, but the document text itself states May 13. From asking the people there, they didn’t even know about May 13. There was one at Danville, but nothing planned for the location in Urbana. So, go figure. That was a bust. I did get a glass of free soda. So, there was that. As I was standing there talking to the ladies sweat was dripping off of me, and they pretty well forced me to take the soda. 
Then, I went to G-Mart to get free comic books, since today is FreeComicBookDay. And, I got there 35 minutes before they opened. So, I ended up going to Champaign Surplus (they were having a sidewalk sale today) and spending a fair amount of money on clothes, etc for the trip next week. Then, the 35 minutes had passed, and I went back up to G-Mart and picked up my free comic books. G-Mart had free pizza from dominos and soda, so I had a couple of pieces of pepperoni and a couple of glasses of soda. They also had 3 or 4 people dressed up as Storm Troopers. Another as Boba Fett, and a third as an Alliance airwoman (I think.. could be way off)..
From there, I went to the library and traded in DVDs. Then to Valhalla for more free comic books. The first store just gave me a random collection. The second store let me actually pick the ones I wanted. Hopefully there isn’t too much overlap. We’ll find out.
After Valhalla, I had thought about going over to Durst Cycle. They are having a “yard sale” today, but I was starting to get tired, so I figured I’d just walk home. Another 2.5 miles or so, and I arrived back home.
