Date: 2003-07-20
From: Hanover, New Hampshire

To: Zero Day
Miles today: 0.0

A zero day in Hanover. I plan to take probably two or more zero days besides Sunday. My knees are basically trashed. They are in bad shape. I¢m going to call home and see if I can¢t get my doctor to call in a Bextra prescription here at this town. Basically I¢m going to hang out and hope my knees stop swelling. Also, I managed to pick up a case of inflamed hemorrhoids which I have never had before. I wasn¢t sure if they were hemorrhoids or if it was a hernia. All I know is something was starting to stick out around my butt region. Rebob walked into town and I saw him and I talked to him. He was actually the one telling me that he was having the same problem. What happens is when you get down to zero body fat¢¦.when you get really skinny¢¦.he said he has a tendency to get hemorrhoids which is probably what happened to me. Right now I¢m probably close to zero body fat so all the fatty tissues around your hemorrhoids apparently aren¢t ? any longer. Pretty well everyone bailed out of here. All the SOBO¢s left either last night or this morning. I went across the street to get breakfast at Lou¢s Restaurant. Sunday morning the place is absolutely packed. I managed to get a seat at the counter. Everyone was waiting in line for tables. The line was huge. Zero day. Basically just hangin around bored. I decided to go to EMS which is an outfitter but they were in West Lebanon which is a town 7 miles away. I was thinking of just walking there but one of the kids at the dorm said he was headed that way and he would give me a ride. So, I got a ride to EMS. Just before we left Spiderman and Sticks both walked in to town. They are planning on staying here. At least Spiderman was going to stay in the basement of Pamarchy, Sticks was going to stay at the hotel mainly because his buddy was coming into town to hike with him for a week. A guy named Rat Rough? whom he had gone to college with. While they got their stuff sorted out I got my ride to EMS and picked up a sports towel and a new mosquito net and a freeze dried Pad Thai dinner and one of the packaged breakfasts with vanilla and blueberries mainly because it has 1060 calories in it. I started walking back towards downtown Hanover which is 7 miles away. I was trying to hitchhike. I probably walked 4-5 miles before someone finally picked me up and dropped me off in the center of town. I went back to the Pamarchy basement and dropped my stuff off. I just kind of lingered around town. I ended up going to lunch back at Molly¢s. While I was sitting there I saw Spiderman walking down the street so I went out and called him in. We sat there for awhile and finished lunch. I got up and wandered around town. Went and checked out the movie theater to check out what times movies were playing. There was nothing really good playing there. Then I went down into the Dartmouth campus. I checked stuff out over there. Thayer Hall which is for camper and hikers. I made a note of that. I went over to Robinson Hall which had internet access downstairs which I started messing with. They were Apple computers that I wasn¢t too comfortable using so¢¦it was no big deal so I left. Basically it was just a hang out day. Spielberg, one of the kids named Spielberg¢¦who I hadn¢t seen since Virginia walked into Pamarchy later in the evening as well as a SOBO girl. So the four of us were in Pamarchy for the evening. Spiderman, Spielberg, Sticks and Sticks buddy Rat Rough all went over to Molly¢s for drinks¢¦. for drinks and appetizers¢¦which Rat Rough picked up the bill for. He said it was his little bit of Trail magic. That was very nice of him. I went back to the Pamarchy basement and hung out for a little bit and talked and then went to bed. Tomorrow is Monday and I have to take care of my maildrops. I have to call in my Bextra prescription. Lots of stuff I¢ve got to do. Lot¢s of stuff I have to take care of on Monday. To top that all off the weather channel says it¢s probably going to rain for the next couple of days which really sucks because we¢re going into the Whites. That means it¢s going to be cold and rainy and probably all the views that we were looking forward to seeing in the Whites will be obscured by fog. That is usually the case when we are way up in the mountains¢¦you can¢t see anything. Anyway, that¢s it for Sunday the 20th of July.