Went home for the weekend to see the family and take care of some stuff. Some highlights and lowlights:

1. The HHR is averaging just shy of 30mpg up to this point.
2. I could’ve totally taken home the 60-something lady sitting beside me at the wedding reception…she wanted me.
3. Finally saw the Angus burger at McDonald’s – meh.
4. Stopping by Grandma’s.
5. Ring Bologna from Miller’s. Mmmm…old-school.
6. Driving by the house I grew up in and the whole neighborhood seeming smaller and crummier than I remember.
7. The unexplained light*
8. “You’ve been Skunked!”
9. Running over a squirrel. (I didn’t mean to…fucking suicidal squirrel)
10. Scoring karma points for hooking up the dude at the rest stop with directions.

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* Along this stretch of 38 at about 10:30 at night. I was driving and my mother was the only other one in the car. We’re blowing up that road at about 70 and I noticed a really bright light gaining on us quick. Mentioned it to mom as the 70 I was doing was too fast for that road and this catching up fast. We watched as a single rectangular light centered in the lane caught quickly up to us and stayed right on my ass. We spent a moment wondering what the hell it was as there were no other lights – just one very bright, white, rectangular light centered behind us – at first we thought it was a motor cycle, but it made no noise catching up to us and a bike winding out at that speed would’ve been loud. The light was so bright that I joked that I could’ve turned my lights off and still seen just fine. We wondered for another moment what it was. Truck with a headlight out, quiet motorcycle…

…then it just vanished. Gone. Nothing at all behind us.

We pondered for a second whether it turned onto Hohn Rd (see map), but it was still right on the ass-end of the HHR when it disappeared. That turn is from a two-lane road to an even smaller two-lane road at more than a 90 degree angle – no way any vehicle could’ve taken that at 70mph and if it slowed and turned we’d have seen it. It was just gone. In that 1.5 mile span the weird-ass light caught up to me doing 70, rode our ass for like 30 seconds and fucking evaporated. It was weird.