back on the road

Well after a blissful 2 weeks of no travelling, we hit the road today for Binghampton, NY. Never heard of it?? Ya me either. Google tells me its in western NY, just above PA and its going to take 9hours to get there. Our trip was supposed to begin at 2pm on Friday, but due to weather in the western part of middle of nowhere, our games got pushed back to Sunday/Monday, with a departure time of 12pm Saturday. Ohhhh joy, this means I get the pleasure of covering spring football practice on Friday AND Saturday morning.

So I leave the comfort of the futon bright and early this morning, planning for a quick stop at Tim Horton's for a bagel in time to arrive at 7am. All is going as planned until I pull away from the drive-thru. As I hit the button to roll my window up BANG. I look around to see what had run into my car, but soon realize that bang was something snapping inside my drivers side door as I watch my window slide down. Awesome, its 7am, 35 degrees, impending rain, we're about to leave on a 2 day road trip and my window won't roll up. Insert many choice expletives here....... I get to work and putting my tiny fingers and hands to good use, try to reach inside and grab the window to see if I can at least get it up. Insert even more choice expletives providing bewilderment and entertainment to the football coaches in the parking lot. So greasy fingers, and a raging temper I storm into the Athletic Training Room and throw a bagel at poor Ryan. But the universe decided to play nice, and the quicky auto repair place up the street opens at 730 and they said I could drop it off and they'd at least get the window up. So after dealing with 30 whiny, sore football players (Ive come to learn that many of them are frightened of me, and on days like today, I can see why), I dropped the car off at VIP Auto Services. I figured it wouldn't be ready until at least Monday, but at 11am I got a call "Its all fixed" YAY!!! "Its going to be $300" expletive expletive expletive. But hey, gotta do what you gotta do, and I don't think riding around with duct tape and a garbage bag for a window was going to do much for my street cred. Just add it to the list of things my car needs, new windshield, new brakes, new tires, something jiggling somewhere in the underbelly (damn dirt roads).

But after a stressful morning full of broken car parts, expletives, yelling at football players and freezing my butt off outside, it was time to depart. Not too bad of a drive, watched a few movies, saw Shrek 4 for the first time, pretty funny, did some reading and then we were here. So 2 games tomorrow against the Binghampton Bearcats....