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It's 5:30 AM, and I can't sleep. Argh. I'm anticipating a crash around 2:00, which will hopefully give me about an hour for a nap. This is lame. Oh, and last night's drive up here? Hell. We left at 6:00, got to my dad's around 11:30. The traffic getting out of the metro Boston was bad, as I expected. But then we got to the Maine Turnpike, and lo, there was "an incident" and they closed a portion of it off, routing all the traffic off onto Route 1 (Route 1 in Maine is a 1 lane road, sometimes 2 for a few miles, that meanders through coastal Maine towns, complete with traffic lights of various kinds). We got onto Route 1 around York, got back onto the Turnpike at Saco, and spent the time on Route 1 experiencing tortures of traffic that I imagine are only known to those who live around LA. So not cool.

Never fear, though, the Turnpike is open now and not going to be that bad for you folks. That was a special welcome to Maine kick in the pants for us. here is the story about why it was closed off. Apparantly it involved a highspeed chase, guns, and, um, death.

So now I am killing time and trying to make myself sleepy so that I'm not a zombie later, but I imagine tonight I'll be heading straight to bed when we get back from dinner. For anyone who still needs directions (tenillypo in particular) I'll give you a call around 11-ish, if that's cool.