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I left work early on Wednesday then got home and didn't have much to do before I got picked up around 7:30pm. I maybe should've showered because the one in the hotel in Merced was quite atrocious. The controls didn't work very well; the water pressure was miniscule; and the temperature was variable at whatever setting I had it on. I watched the Travel Channel until I felt sleepy and fell asleep quite quickly after getting up a couple of times to adjust the heater setting. It was getting down towards freezing so I had turned it up high but it was too hot to sleep.

There was a layer of ice on the car when we gathered to leave at 7:45 in the morning so I put on a glove and got out my library copier card and scraped off all the windows. We avoided the "complimentary continental breakfast" that consisted of stale poppyseed muffins and an orange beverage and went down the road to Carrow's instead. I'd never been in a Carrow's and am not sure I could've distinguished it from a Denny's except I didn't see the word "slam" anywhere. I was tempted by the pumpkin pancakes but went with the bacon and onion potato cakes instead. They were a bit oniony for that early in the morning.

We headed down the highway towards Fresno and soon were enveloped in what the natives here call Tule fog. To me it's just regular fog as opposed to the fog that comes off the ocean. We don't get that kind of fog where I come from. We never felt in danger driving along at 75mph but I did start to feel a bit claustrophobic when I couldn't see very far. It cleared as we hit the metropolis of Fresno and we had clear skies from then on down to Visalia where the training was.