Date: 2003-07-21
From: Zero Day

To: Zero Day
Miles today: 0.0

Zero day in Hanover. Second zero day. I woke up as usual at 5:00 and laid around until about 6. I went back to Lou¢s and got breakfast again. It was very early so it wasn¢t a problem getting a seat. I sat there and Skeemer came in. He apparently stayed at the hotel last night. He sat down and talked my ear off. Then he went off to go get back on the Trail. Actually this is another mess around day for me. Although the first part of the day was pretty productive in terms of¢¦.I did a little grocery shopping at the 24 hour gas station for candy bars and sodas and stuff like that. I waited for the post office to be open at 8:30. I went over to the post office and I had six different boxes shipped here mainly because I was about to get into the Whites and all my winter gear got shipped here along with my bump box and my regular food drop. I sat at the post office and took out what I wanted and put in what I didn¢t want any longer and mailed one box back home and one box to Gorham, NH which was just a small bump box I¢ve been carrying.   Just basic stuff. A lightweight sleeping bag was one thing and solid fuel that I figured I might need to use again. I believe I actually put my day pack in there too, I can¢t remember. That was about it. I went back to the Pamarchy basement and everyone was still kind of sleeping so I took out my backpack and took it outside and spent several hours re-packing. People started waking up so I moved back inside. I got all my gear sorted and packed up. It¢s kind of difficult when you change gear like that. I was trying to find out where in the heck to put it again especially when you change backpacks. Which I did. Anyway, it took me a couple of hours to do that. After I finished with that I went back to the post office and dropped off one more box there. I went to the pharmacy and made arrangements to get a prescription for Bextra filled which it took me until 4:00 in the afternoon to get. Ridiculous prices. 30 10mg pills¢¦which I¢m supposed to be taking 20¢s¢¦.so basically that was a 15 day supply¢¦was $120.00 which is just insane. I went ahead and paid it and took the pills mainly because the swelling is continuing to get worse. I would think after 2 days of being in town that the fluid in my knees would drain off and they would go back to normal but it¢s gotten pretty bad. Up to the point where this afternoon I was having real difficulty walking around, sitting down and stuff like that. I can¢t even pull my pant cuffs up past my knees right now because they are so big. Anyway, I started taking the Bextra as soon as I got it and I continue to take it. I actually took three pills in one day. It did seem to loosen things up a little bit which is a really good sign. I roamed around town and I went and got internet access and played on there for awhile. I stopped a couple of times to eat and basically just wasted the rest of the day. I made some phone calls. I chargedmy cell phone up to all three bars so I can actually call people finally. I really didn¢t know where people had gone. Everyone had just gone in different directions. I ended up going to see a movie called Whale Rider. I was supposed to meet Spielberg but I got there a little bit early and Spielberg had already gone in. I went in and watched the Whale Rider which ended up being a foreign made film. Really excellent. Very good movie. Whale Rider. After I got out of the movie it was almost dark and I had to walk by Molly¢s and I had to look in the window and there was Spiderman, Sticks and ? sitting at the table eating.I knocked on the window and they waved so I went inside to have some beers and eat with them. Spielberg walked by and we knocked on the window. So, the five of us were sitting at the table just chatting away and eating. Then we left and headed back to Pamarchy. The place was overflowing. There were at least 12 people in the basement with their bags spread all over. Mostly SOBO¢s who had walked in. Actually earlier before the movie I had run into Spiderman and we went to the coffee shop and had coffee. We had run into 2 girls that walked by and turned around and came back. They were obviously thru hikers. They were soaking wet and had backpacks sitting there. It had been raining all day by the way. We introduced ourselves. The two girls were Harold and Maude. That was the Trail names they were going by. So we took them back to Pamarchy to show them where it was and then we went back to the coffee house. Then I went to the movie. That was the order. Then I went I went back after everything was done and the hostel was crowded so I went to bed.