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9:00a
It was one of those nights that dust ball covered Monsters crave.   I rarely need to take more pain medicine in the middle of the night.  There is always an exception.

More meds with my morning coffee.  Breakfast of Champions.  Back in my bed, Dan and I are watching a Jacky Chan Flick.  I am going to give this thing one hour to reign and then I am taking over.   A Hostile Takeover if necessary.   This is not going to ruin our weekend.

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11:00a
We will need to find an internet café today.  The claim of “Wi-Fi” seems to have been an overstatement on the park management’s part.  This is only a place to turn off the engine for the weekend.  Not my home on the river.  The children are not amused by this place either.  “No bike riding” rules don’t work with kids.  The cable is good, thank goodness.  No bikes and no internet.

Funny bringing your house along on an adventure.  With the curtains drawn, it looks like home.  Just the view out is different.  The way we are parked, we share our porch with the motorhome next to us.  It’s a good thing they are friendly.   No tents or campfires mean no tribal gatherings.  I can’t believe I miss them!   Where’s the party?

I guess we need to make our own.

We are taking our party to Wal-Mart.
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2:30p
The children and I have been busy mentally designing the perfect RV campground for Geeks.  After all, tech-heads like to camp too!  The only reason geeks stay in front of their computers at home is that the jocks and fisherman have the monopoly on outdoor recreation areas!  Geeks have rights too, you know!

Our geek friendly camp park will be called “Cyber Woods.”  Wi-Fi connection will be guaranteed to every guest no matter how far away from the office you sit.  Our land will be high on a hill.  At the tops of the trees, camouflaged internet and cell phone receivers will hum gladly with the birds and the bees.  No one will go without vital connections, not in Cyber Woods!

Every picnic table will be aerodynamically comfortable and each will come with an electrical outlet and a data port.

Interspersed around the forest retreat will be tree house coffee bars and sushi huts.  Every bench will sport a laptop wide arm rest.  Communication via Instant messenger will replace the squawky walky talkies used by jock-ular types.  Except for the Nextel people of course.  Everyone welcome, even Sprint and Verizon!  Although Cricket will be the preferred providers.  It is a camp ground after all.

Every lot will have full hook-ups.  You know, water, sewer, electric, cable, Wi-Fi, and pizza delivery.   Even the tents!  Personal porta-pots for the tenters included, no extra charge.

Trees will support flat screen monitors for all manner of video games.  You never know when you will have the urge for Pac-man!  And for exercise, the Gymnasium will be fully outfitted in the latest Wii games like bowling, tennis, and baseball!  We’ll have it all.

See computer people like the great outdoors just as much as the next camper.  We just want to enjoy them our way- surfing the internet in our lawn chair under the tree with a bottle of wine and some really smelly cheese!
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8:00p
We made it back from Wal-Mart in one piece.  All but Dan’s wallet.  It’s a bit lighter.  I had to wait quite a while for a scooty-cart.  There was no way I was going to make it back out if I tried hoofin’ it in.  (In fact, I used my cane all day when no motor cart was handy.)  I had time to get to know the gentleman People Greeter while I waited.  Nice man.  Say what you want about Wal-Mart, I would rather be greeted at the door with a friendly face than a security guard in uniform like some other big box stores.

Dan is walking around with the laptop searching for a signal.  My camp geek!  In his defense, he was doing it for me. (That’s his story and he’s sticking to it!) All five of us are having a hard time with the lack of connectibility.  We need to move on Cyber Woods and fast!

I’m praying for a better night tonight.  Three weeks of radiation down and the complications are right on schedule.  I was told radiation alone, in my case, would require physical therapy.  I wasn’t supposed to get sick though.  Compared to how sick I would be on Chemo, this is nothing. I shouldn’t complain.   I am not throwing up, but I am finding it harder to make myself eat when I know how it will make me feel after I do.  I cut out raw vegetables and cut back on my coffee intake.  Both staples of my diet that I miss.  I see all caffeine waving bye-bye soon.  Please, don’t go!   No internet AND no caffeine?  How’s a mother to cope?

I do have my Dan and my little ones for the weekend. What more can I want?

Tomorrow we are going to the state park down the road. Going to sit on the beach and watch for whales to pass us by.  And the kids want to make their own paper flowers.  A plan I hope the big boss approves.

Maybe tomorrow will bring a few minutes of the World Wide Web as well?  Who knows, maybe no internet is the right plan after all.

Labor to play with the ones you love.   Sounds like a good one to me.