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Away from home.

It’s really weird. I hated living in Duluth / Superior for a long time. I’ve always talked about moving down to Florida or California but have never really gone forward with the idea beyond applying at a couple places. I moved down to Minneapolis back in December after being offered a position here at Identix. I kept my job at the Sports Garden at first to give me something to keep me going back home at first. In the past year I’ve made a ton of good friends in Duluth, it made leaving so much harder.

One thing I think that’s funny now is the feeling I get whenever I drive back to Duluth. I haven’t stayed away longer than 2 weeks yet (which coincidently is the longest I’ve ever been away from home) but it always seems like so long. I’m guessing its because I’m still more comfortable in Duluth. Hell last weekend I didn’t really have anywhere to stay and I still wasn’t worried at all. Down here I’d be somewhat worried.

I spent this past weekend at “home”. It was actually a pretty good weekend all things considered. Friday night I went out to Porky’s which is considered the “strip” out there. It was weird being one of the slowest cars within a group for once. Granted they have twice as many cylinders but hey, I get better gas mileage. (maybe)

Saturday consisted of heading out and watching Rod dyno his Focus up at HiTech. He mad an astoudingly impressive 228whp @ 4000rpms. Due to the wastegate not opening though he’s going to have to get a new one and take another run at it. Afterward’s we went out to eat at BW3’s in Ramsey, then proceeded to go out to the HarMar mall. Not really anyone showed up (MNSC was supposed to get people together there), we had 5 cars altogether and I knew everyone so it wasn’t too bad.

Sunday we were supposed to head to Rock Falls but never made it down. The weather called for thunderstorms so rather than go there on 5 hours of sleep, I opted for another 3 hours of sleep. The rest of the day was pretty laid back, went over to a friend’s house and watched him work on his $200 car and then went over to Matt’s house and spun some records. I managed to not eat out at all yesterday which is pretty good for me. I need to start cooking more at home because it’s too expensive to eat out all the time even if it’s fast food.

Anyways, this week looks to be pretty good once Friday rolls around. Money is low but I have a full tank of gas and the Focus is running pretty good. Speaking of the car, I have some things in the works for it. Anyone want to lend me $5000?