Turned out, in our walk today, most every eatery in Garland District, our old little shopping area, vintage about 1930—was closed. The place lives only after dark or on weekdays, apparently. To our new ‘regular’ place is a 1.5 mile round trip. It turned out food was only avaiable at The Milk Bottle, a place shaped exactly like that, vintage 1931, which is a bonafide old soda fountain/ice cream parlor/burger place. We had lunch, and tried to recover. It added half a mile to our normal route, and going 2 miles instead of 1.5 has us wheezing.
We’re keeping after it, however. That which does not kill us makes us stronger. But getting across the arterial near our house is a pita. What I most hate is when some car politely stops for you, meaning you kinda have to reward his gesture by going, but the lane just beyond him can kill you…and it’s not an unknown accident in Spokane. So I really wish people wouldn’t stop, just get out of our way so we can cross on a clear road.
I usually just wave cars ahead of me. I figure I’m never in so much of a hurry that letting traffic pass isn’t worth the time.
Plus, car vs. me: car wins. I don’t like losing …
Wasn’t there a New York comic that did a routine about visiting a city like Portland or Minneapolis where cars would stop to let a pedestrian cross. “Look, they’re wanting me to go so they can get a perfect shot,” or some such.
Well, in some states we actually give pedestrians the right of way habitually.
And, sorry, I’m not taking a ticket for you. 😉
Pedestrians have the absolute right of way here, which is why the cars stop if you’re standing on the curb, but the second lane can’t see you past the body of the stopped car. Your best defense is to stand on the curb pretending not to want to cross, which sometimes doesn’t prevent them stopping.
There’s a reason Spokane has, to my observation, an uncommon lot of pedestrian accidents.
I have the bad habit of jaywalking. Of course, I do so mainly in one place where the next crosswalk is a quarter mile down the road in either direction and there are no cars coming. I figure if I’m going to jaywalk, it’s on me to haul it across the street and get out of the way.
this one made me think of you. http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/keyboard_problems.png
Lol.
I should check XKCD more often.
We tuck into food, we tucker out when tired. Then there’s Tucker, out or not, and Friar Tuck. … And Kentucky or Old Ken-Tuck.
Not sure if that train of thought’s going anywhere or around in circles, but hey, it is what it is.
I don’t think you’ll regret hitting the rewind button and going through all of xkcd. The beginning is a bit primitive and it can get very geeky, but a lot of the strips are brilliant.
I used to check there regularly, and when I look back, I wonder why I don’t lately. — IIRC, he’s a higher math and physics major, was a grad student when he started the webcomic, but is surely graduated by now. Geeky and intelligent, funny and with a heart. And very curious, artistically, that he manages to get so much out of stick figures and line art. He’s also a science fiction fan. 🙂
Since I haven’t seen it mentioned here – yesterday, I noticed this small shoutout to C.J. by Ann Leckie on Scalzi’s blog:
Q: What is it with you and tea?
A: I love tea! Tea is the most frequently consumed beverage on this planet, next to water. I can’t imagine we’d go far from our solar system without finding a way to take it with us. Also it’s partly a very respectful bow to C.J. Cherryh’s Foreigner series.
http://whatever.scalzi.com/2015/10/06/the-big-idea-ann-leckie/
Also, Foreigner is in Amazon’s 100 books SF readers must read, which I just saw referenced…somewhere:
http://www.amazon.com/s?rh=i%3Aenglish-books%2Cn%3A12661600011&ie=UTF8
They seem to be randomized each time you view the page.
Duh: Somewhere was the front page of CNN.com.
Tonight on OPB (PBS?) Nature has a documentary about ratites entitled, “Big Birds Can’t Fly”. I suppose you’ve got to be old enough to remember Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons to get the joke. 😉
hehehe……even sung in falsetto…..(which is hardly a big boy’s voice…)
watching it.
David Attenborough — that’s all I needed to know
Did he seem to have trouble walking to you?
maybe a bit. certainly showing his age
That’s a heck of an earworm you’ve given me.
Ditto.
Imagine if you had to live through it! 🙁
Great moments on Twitter:
Legio XIII Marylandica and Legio II Philadelphia have declared for Chaffetz and are marching towards Washington.
— Sr. WH Official (@SrWHOfficial) October 8, 2015
Someone else pointed out that Marylandica is actually Legio VII; Legio XIII is Rhodus Insula. A third person added that Legio XII is Novo Eboracum.
And I’m reading and snickering.
Guess it didn’t post. Off topic, I have lost 5 cats this year. Latest, my baby cat Luna to FIP. Tears don’t begin to cover it. Why I read science fiction. We have to get off the planet. Only hope left.
Sorry to hear of your loss. Sounds a tough, tough, tearful year for you.