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Tuesday, October 25, 2005-6:25 P.M.

I'm home from North Carolina, and it rained the whole way.  The hurricanes this season are something else, and if it's not global warming, there's definitely some other forces afoot, because I can't remember it ever being this bad in a single year.

Saturday night at the Comedy Zone in Greensboro, NC was special...to give you an indication of the madness that ensued, there were two girls in the audience that showed the headliner their coochies...and not even for money, just because he asked.  I never understood that low-level whoring around, especially why it seems to be so much more prevalent in the Bible belt.  It seems that people would be so much more God-fearing, but that's apparently not the case, from my constant touring experience in the American southeast.

I got back into Rochester around Midnight, and I was sad to leave the 200 miles (or so) of Pennsylvania behind me....they had the cheapest gas prices of any of the six states I drove through in the last four days....$2.29 a gallon.  I wished I had a 55-gallon drum in the car, I would have filled it up...that's 5 1/2 tanks of gas in my car.

On the way home, it was raining constantly, and I got up late, and my only thoughts were, "I'm never going to get home at this rate!" and with that in mind, I drove between 80 and 85 miles an hour the whole way.  I don't advise it for normal human beings, but I guess I gave up that label a long time ago.  I still wound up keeping it to a 13-hour drive.  When I got home, I was awake and alert...by all rights, I should have fallen asleep at the wheel, but I guess I paced myself just right.

It's colder than the bottom of a well in my house, but we have a heating and cooling company scheduled to install our new furnace pretty soon.  Hopefully the snow will hold off until that happens, but in the meantime, it's sweaters, sweatpants, and big comforters on the bed.

And with that, I bid you adieu.

Ralph Tetta

Rochester, NY