{"id":1274,"date":"2009-06-26T07:00:42","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T11:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=1274"},"modified":"2009-06-24T23:30:08","modified_gmt":"2009-06-25T03:30:08","slug":"geek-road-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/26\/geek-road-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Geek Road Trip!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Serv (of <a title=\"The Unique Geek\" href=\"http:\/\/theuniquegeek.com\/\">The Unique Geek<\/a> and <a title=\"NeedCoffee.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.needcoffee.com\/\">NeedCoffee.com<\/a>) and I are hitting the road!\u00a0 We&#8217;re leaving today for Minnesota to move his things down to Florida.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll be trapped together either moving furniture or driving a U-Haul truck for the next five days straight.\u00a0 Wish us luck. Hopefully we&#8217;ll both survive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You can see what happened the last time we tried to get along&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Serv and Shag\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/serv_toy2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"463\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">All kidding aside, I think this trip has the potential to be fun.\u00a0 Serv and I were college roommates and share many of the same interests.\u00a0 Having a chance to hang out for several days is going to be great.\u00a0 It&#8217;s like a Pep Rally for Dragon*Con!<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Tell the world about ONCE UPON A GEEK:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" 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