derSturm
Permanently Banned
In order to get my Astro Blaster (no comment necessary; I know it gets low love; I really wanted an Astro Blaster) I coordinated a trip to Kansas City with an already scheduled trip to Oklahoma. The wife and I drove 380 miles from Apple Springs, Texas to Norman, OK to see Texas A&M play the Sooners in football. After the friggin' Okies pulled ahead by like 17 early in the 4th we grabbed a head start for our next destination: a storage facility in KC. That was 370 miles. The drive home from there was 642. That's 1392 miles, though we were gonna do that football game, anyway, and so the net distance for Astro Blaster was actually 632.
It was a good trip, despite the outcome of the game. We experienced our first earthquake, and Oklahoma's first in like 80 gazillion years. We woke in the motel room to the walls shaking and I hypothesized that one of the motel's commerical-sized washing machines was unbalanced and causing a water pipe to vibrate. We learned the truth via Missouri radio some 18 hours later. We hit virtually every toy store from Norman to KC and back to Texas for our girls' Santa Claus. And I got home with as pretty an Astro Blaster as anyone is likely ever to see. Seriously. The most solid $200 I've yet spent for this hobby. Not counting gasoline.
It was a good trip, despite the outcome of the game. We experienced our first earthquake, and Oklahoma's first in like 80 gazillion years. We woke in the motel room to the walls shaking and I hypothesized that one of the motel's commerical-sized washing machines was unbalanced and causing a water pipe to vibrate. We learned the truth via Missouri radio some 18 hours later. We hit virtually every toy store from Norman to KC and back to Texas for our girls' Santa Claus. And I got home with as pretty an Astro Blaster as anyone is likely ever to see. Seriously. The most solid $200 I've yet spent for this hobby. Not counting gasoline.

