End Of Day Zero

I brought my new tripod arrangement over to Jackie's room, and we decided to go down to see Roger was in. The van was gone, so we walked around a little bit. By the time we got back, Roger was back. He told us there was a chance that we would be chasing this evening, and he showed us the models. Tomorrow is looking better and better with every model update. Jacquie and I went to lunch at Panera Bread right next to the hotel. We each got half a sandwich and some soup, and we yakked it up while eating. While we were there, a guy came in who looked a little bit like Lloyd whose name was Lloyd. It wasn't our Lloyd, however. Jacquie bought a brownie for herself and one for Roger, and we brought it back to his room. We hung out for a little while longer, and Roger introduced us to Steve each. While he was doing this, Lloyd came in. We were all here except for Alister, who was stuck in Vegas. Roger told us all to meet him back in his room at 530, and we would evaluate the situation to see if we would chase this evening. at the time drew near, Lloyd and I made our way down toward the main part of the hotel, where we ran into Marie. Lloyd went into the restaurant and ordered a cheeseburger. It cost him $10. It took awhile to get, and in the mean time the whole crew gathered around the table. We then made our way over to Roger's room, where he showed us the models, which predicted that we could get some storms tonight. We all decided it was worth the risk and got into the van. He drove west and then northwest out of Oklahoma City towards the eastern tip of the Oklahoma Panhandle. There was a storm that had gone up, but as we got closer to it it just got sucked dry. In fact, all of the clouds started dissipating. We stopped off for dinner, which was a nice break, and then went outside to evaluate the situation. There were clouds, there was nothing organized. We stopped off at the Holiday Inn express to scam off their free WiFi. Everything looked to be falling apart, so we drove back to the hotel. It was about 120 miles there and 120 miles back. On the way back, we listened to my CD. It seemed to receive fairly favorable reviews. We got back to the hotel at about 11, and Roger told us we would all meet up at 11 AM. He said the storms would start popping midafternoon, and we were only two hours away from the target area. I'm going to get up at seven in the morning, and meet Lloyd for breakfast and a walk at eight. I went inside my room, took a shower, got caught up with this, and went to bed. It's going to be difficult getting to sleep tonight without Mina by my side.