I've never been a beach person - nor much of a water person for that matter - there are only lakes and rivers in the land-locked Prairies scoured out of the ground by the glacial action of the last ice age and the meltwaters of the Rocky Mountains .
But, I think I could be... Place name links like Carolina Beach, NC go to Wikipedia. Place name links like Carolina Beach use the local tourism or government website.
| 2013.05.07 |
Home and Looking the Other Way Around |
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Home, for anyone who's reading and might ask anyway. Safely.
I walked into my apartment and it was ... exactly as I had left it. Like I'd never been away, save for my gerbil Squirty's absence (she died in December) and a few things moved by RM while he was here.
Sitting back near the top of the world, looking southward. I spent the evening making some phone calls, watching some hockey, and unpacking. Nothing seems momentous yet, but it will. |
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| 2013.05.12 |
Landed, Still Landing |
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Unpacked and put away, mostly, except for trinkets collected along the way - they're awaiting a photo session. Reconnected with friends and family, mostly. I've been too busy with that, and catching up with old blog entries and preparations for some new ones, to reminisce much. At least for your consumption at this time. I am very aware that I've been away for a non-trivial amount of time, stepped out of my heretofore life, and have now stepped back in, tempered by that absence. |
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| 2013.05.25 |
Odds & Ends and Impressions |
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Catching up with my recordings, these are Los Angeles items from the Miscellaneous Bin that don't warrant their own entry but still need a space.
April 4 |
| TFS has several rose bushes. Even after I hacked them all to the dirt they came back. | |
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April 28: In a mall parking lot we came across this rare little car, a 1967 Toyota Sports 800 .
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790cc dual carb, air-cooled 2-cylinder horizontally opposed, 45hp |
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(Cat and) Dog Day Afternoon
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| May 1: With temps in the 90s (F) everyone moved a little slower | |
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| This is Jake, my daytime company. Not really a lot of company, since he's old and mostly looked like this. But when he wasn't sleeping he was a lot of company. I miss the old guy. | |
Gluten-free is everywhere: pizza, burgers, snacks, even beer. ... Calorie counts are required on menus or signage in LA County. It became sport to find the highest-calorie items. ... Parking is something else to do with your car after a bunch of driving, before you can get to all the fun things LA has to do. ... Palm trees are planted even where they never were before. They can be a road hazard when highs winds dislodge the wood-like dead frondbases onto anyone or anything below. Bonk! from above. ... Black asphalt parking lots generally stay black because they're painted annually. ... Signal lights seem to be optional on about half the vehicles on the road, though more than on the east coast. ... Horn Honking is a regular feature of driving anywhere. Not as much as on crowded thirld-world streets, but much more than anywhere else I've been. ... Lane-splitting permits motorcycles to drive between vehicle lanes, no matter what type of road. Only in California, though another state (Colorado?) is considering it. There's a reason why 99.99% of the world doesn't allow it. ... U-Turns are a regular part of urban driving and are explicitly accommodated in intersection design, lighting and signage. ... Cold storms are about the only kind of storms LA has, when cold weather moves down from the north, usually Alaska, triggering an outbreak of hats and scarves, weather items on the news, and snow at higher elevations. ... Cars of uncommon types are prevalent on most roads, and certainly in Woodland Hills. I saw more Porsche 356s , Ferraris , Bentleys , Maseratis , and Teslas than in my whole life. Even a Fisker . ... Indian, Thai, and Persian food restaurants and take-out places are very common. ... Donuts, Foot spas, and Hookah smoking are readily available in any cluster of retail shops. |
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| 2013.05.29 |
History Repeated |
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The last three weeks I've spent catching up with my route home, a fun nerdy exercise that has helped land me back into my absented reality. There will only be epilogue posts now, a couple or three I expect. The next one is about the artifacts that remain: physical like the mementoes I accrued, and perhaps ephemeral like memories and impression that arise from them. Photos are involved, a nerdery project in itself. |
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