The GPS said it would take a two and a half hours. I gave myself four hours to allow for traffic.

The only traffic I hit was the last two exits on the Mass Pike… In other words, if I took my regular route from home today I would have hit the same traffic. It took 25 minutes to cover the last few miles.

Even with that traffic, the picture shows the time and distance of today’s drive.

The GPS says it will take 2 1/2 hours. I have given myself four hours. Will it be enough? For this and other news, tune in tonight at 11.

Hey screw you Connecticut.

(The above line is a test of the iPhone 5’s speech recognition function. It worked on the second try.)

How do you know that Rob is in Connecticut? Because it’s pitch dark and raining.

(That too was a test. I needed to add the punctuation.)

Twice this month we have driven across Connecticut, from roughly the Northeastern corner all the way to the Southwestern corner. Each time, the minute we crossed over the MA/CT border it started to rain. It then continued to rain throughout the entire state.

Routes 91 and 8 absolutely suck when it’s raining at night. All of the other roads we took were bad, but those two just blew.

I’m going to start taking this crappy treatment personally.

So the Cardinals are out of it. That officially makes me a Tigers fan and pretty much locks up the World Series for the Giants.

Rush at the TD Garden… getting very close now.

This being the internet, it is a given that there are millions of really sick people out there.  But how sick and twisted and disgusting do you have to be to write adult fan fiction based on a Disney show?

I mentioned the other day about a Disney show that the kids are all into right now, called Austin and Ally.  Yesterday we happened to stumble across some Austin and Ally fan fiction.  Let me just say, What the hell??  If you want to write R, or NC17, or XXX rated fan fiction based on a story that already focuses on adult themes (I’m looking at you, 50 Shades of Grey) then I guess you can go have at it.  If you want to write that stuff based on a show that does not focus on adult themes, but includes adult characters then you probably need a new hobby and at the very least you should maybe think about trying to be original and not steal some one else’s characters, but go ahead and do your worst.

But if you want to write pervy fan fiction about kid characters on a kid show and post it somewhere a kid can find it then I hope the other prisoners do really awful things to you while you are serving your sentence.  I mean, the closest thing I’ve seen to an adult situation on this show was one character being afraid to ask some one to dance with them at another kid’s birthday party.  You want to use those characters as your basis for a story about drunken debauchery, then I hope your prison sentence is Sandusky-esque.

Can you see it? Look close.

Yeah, I’ve got the Hipstamatic multi exposure thing on my iPad too. I love goofy crap like this.

The latest Disney channel show to capture the obsessive attention of my step kids is a particularly awful piece of garbage called Austin and Ally. The premise: Austin is a teen aged wannabe pop star with no creative talent. Ally is a teen aged songwriter with crippling stage fright. Give Austin Ally’s songs and BOOM he’s an overnight Internet sensation.

Yeah right.

Anyway, my step daughter and I had a very excited discussion tonight about how Austin and Ally absolutely need to start dating each other. She listed off a bunch of scenes in various episodes that had some degree of romantic tension between the two characters. She even started referring to them as Auslly.

I told her about Mulder and Scully on the X-Files and how they dragged that particular tension out for seven years. She threw in the Riker/Troi characters from Star Trek the Next Generation and how they milked the will they/won’t they for ever and ever.

It was so cool to see how animated she got. This was just before bed time and she kept asking if we could talk about it again tomorrow.

It’s so much fun being a step father. I feel so lucky that I get to have goofy talks like this with a middle schooler.

Who woulda thunk it, right?