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Merit Badge Mini-Contest below!

PROMPT July 25th

Reflect on your week. What was challenging? What did you do that made you feel successful? What made you smile?

Reflect on your week.

Time has lost all meaning.

What was challenging?

Keeping alcohol in stock. It keeps disappearing somehow. It's a mystery.

What did you do that made you feel successful?

Woke up in the morning. And again in the afternoon.

What made you smile?

Schadenfreude.

...okay, no, it's not all that bad. I'm well aware of what day of the week it is, and I know exactly why my booze keeps disappearing.

Sunday night, I managed to see the comet. It wasn't all that big a deal, but I had to try, because otherwise I'd never be able to look Phil Plait in the eye again. I wrote about the experience in this week's Comedy newsletter: "Comet Chameleon" 

Speaking of the Comedy newsletter, I count getting it completed on Monday morning as a success, though no one saw it until Wednesday.

Getting back to the comet, though, I wasn't in any position to take pictures of it, but a whole lot of other people were. I think I posted a link to APOD here last week, but this site   has awesome photos also.

I have to admit, it's getting harder and harder to deal with being effectively unable to travel. Yes, yes, I know I could go do outdoors shit, but come ON, when do I do outdoors shit? No, the reason to travel, for me, is to drink at bars, stay in hotels, visit breweries, eat at restaurants, gamble in casinos (with money, not health), visit friends, go to Nerd Camp (cancelled this year), and generally be in places where other people are. In other words, I'm effectively unable to travel.

This especially sucks because it's right about now that I would have been leaving on another cross-country trip.

Yes, I know, other people have it way worse than I do. Fortunately, I'm not other people. If I can only kvetch if my situation is the worst possible situation, I'd never kvetch at all, and that's not fun.

But no, it's not "challenging." Just depression-inducing.

Fortunately, yesterday was National Tequila Day, and also fortunately, I had some in my stash.

Key word there is "had." Tenses are fun. In any event, tequila what made me smile most recently.

So, since I'm all down about the traveling thing, or rather the not-traveling thing, I think it's time for another Merit Badge Mini-Contest.

Write in the comments where we'd go if I met you on a trip. I don't know -- maybe thinking about it is a bad idea, but I won't know until I actually think about it. This can be somewhere unique to wherever you are, or some distant location; doesn't matter, since this is all hypothetical anyway (unless you don't want it to be, in which case hit me up when things settle down). Also, no need to limit this to things I talk about all the time; I'm up for new places and experiences. The answer I like best will earn the author a Merit Badge tomorrow.

As usual, deadline is midnight WDC time today (Saturday, July 25).