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Giant melting popsicle–Oh, the humanity!

Still slowly pulling it together after pulling into our driveway in a borrowed car at 5:30 this morning (details below the fold). So, no deep thoughts just yet, so I thought I would start by posting this fluffy–er, I mean sticky–news story:

Giant Popsicle Melts, Floods New York Park

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050622/ap_on_fe_st/popsicle_disaster

NEW YORK – An attempt to erect the world’s largest Popsicle in a city square ended with a scene straight out of a disaster film — but much stickier.

The 25-foot-tall, 17 1/2-ton treat of frozen Snapple juice melted faster than expected Tuesday, flooding Union Square in downtown Manhattan with kiwi-strawberry-flavored fluid that sent pedestrians scurrying for higher ground.

“What was unsettling was that the fluid just kept coming,” Stuart Claxton of the Guinness Book of World Records told the Daily News. “It was quite a lot of fluid. On a hot day like this, you have to move fast.”

On to the reason I am a woman of few words today. As the only person in my family who didn’t sleep in the car overnight, I still don’t have it together enough to write up my own thoughts on the weekend, so for the time being I will just repost Demetrius’ comment from the road last night.

Demetrius wrote on June 21, 2005 11:41 PM:

Ok… We’re on our way home now. I know we may have said we were on our way home much earlier today also. Forget all that… We’re heading down I65 in a car that (fingers crossed) won’t crap out on us. Our car is at a
transmission shop on the south side of Chicago. We won’t know what the damage is until tomorrow.

Since I last posted… A beautiful sunrise over Texas from 30,000 feet. (Click) A day of lounging. (sort of) Delicious roast pork. A night on a Minbari bed. Packing. French toast. More frantic searching for the cat. Loading. A parking lot of a freeway. 5 hours in a greenhouse of a car on the side of the road. Frantic mobile googling. A few strategic calls before my
phone’s battery died. A severely twisted ankle. A chicken sandwich with a lovely beverage. An $85 tow. The potential of bending WAY over for a new transmission. A borrowed Ford…

Was DFest worth it? Yeah. It was worth it.
http://dfesttexas.textamerica.com/

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