Rob's third Tuesday of October meeting

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This is another view of the corner of Packard and Stadium. This is the view that Jonny has always associated with this corner, including 15 years before moving to this location. This is the South bound on Packard view. On the left is Chase. Chase was NBD then when Bank One bought them it was Bank One. When Chase bought them it was Chase. On the right was Lucky Drugs. Not lucky for them. The whole corner was leveled and is now Stadium market among other things. This corner remains though, a skinny little outpost before leaving Ann Arbor. You see, you head south on Main Street in down town. Doesn't every downtown have a main street? This stretches from Plymouth Road on the north end to an ominous sign at the corner 4 blocks later on the south end. The sign reads in white letters on a green back ground, out bound packard. Head another 1 or 2 miles and there is this corner. At this point traffic will inevitably back up for the left turn you wish to make. You see heading straight takes you straight into a speed trap. Heading left takes you to Stadium, which merges with Washtenaw and then takes you the F*** out of town on US 23 passing Arborland on the left. This used to be the last stop before a visit to downtown. The long wait for the short left green arrow would be the last straw before heading out of town. The stretch from Main to this exit from Packard was and still is covered with student apartment buildings.

VSAFE is running slow. Jonny is up to page 116 of Shadow of the Hegemon. Each chapter begins with an email. Child warrior generals have saved the earth. They now are kidnapped to allow one country to dominate the others. The reviews of the book Running out of Time on Amazon were good. 150; 5 stars, but 10 very interesting 1 stars. Oh well. Jonny liked it. Lorraine liked it. Alberta refused to help Jonny with his quest to get his parents off his back. Jonny is on chapter 16 of Jeremiah. Nothing notable happened is this chapter, except he fell asleep reading it about 16 times.

The working wife had to get to the flu clinic this morning. So Jonny was to get Lorraine and Jesse off to a friend's house early so they could walk. He finally got them there about 8:35, this was only 5 minutes after Jonny was supposed to get to the Hotel California cafeteria. Rob's team was already there. Jonny dropped the kids off and then realized he and Jesse's look alike backpacks had tripped them up. Back around the block again. 5 minutes later, the friend was getting ready to walk to Burns Park and Jonny caught them. Now Jesse had his backpack, and Lorraine treated the father daughter to the story of the look alike back packs. Then Jonny drove to Fair Oaks, 1 mile away. He parked. He ran across the Washtenaw. Then he took the #4 to Hotel California. He was only 20 minutes late.