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A little warm?
It was 115 degrees yesterday setting a new record high for the day by one degree. Today it was 116 degrees tying the high record for the day. Tomorrow is a forecast 115 degrees. The overnight low...
Too complicated?
I finished reading “The Doomsday Machine” by Daniel Ellsburg today. A good, but scary read. If you are a person that worries about small things in life this book will cure you of that annoyance. ...
Kids vs. cops!
I did make it to the grocery store on Sunday. I had a list and a fistful of coupons. Monday we were out early. First stop was the insurance office. Everything was quick and easy. Old car policy ...
Done with that bullshit task!
I finished reading “Something Wicked This Way Comes” by Ray Bradbury. It was the last book in the pile by my chair. I had ordered three books from the library. Thursday I went to go pick up two ...
Looking up words.
One year ago yesterday here was a record high temperature of 118 degrees. Yesterday? Only 103 degrees. Supposed to be 108 today. Evil spawn. Look up each word. Decide then if it is applicable to...
Snafu.
I think it was Friday. Thursday? Anyway, an unusual day had occurred. A high temp of 82 degrees, a little bit of rain, and 88% humidity. That was our monsoon. Yesterday and today it was once aga...
Back to normal?
As we say in the real world, Drumpf got played like the dumbass he is. But this is Bizarro World now. Enough said. I can’t really remember the last time I scribbled in here. Maybe a week or so a...
The car lives on.
The car was finished at the mechanic’s Friday morning. $904 to replace a $30 thermostat. That was why the dash warning light was on. And I learned a few things while talking to the mechanic when ...
Life is not that complicated?
I had my little space put back together in an hour or so after we got back Friday. Mom piddled and fussed and fidgeted all day Saturday and Sunday. I went out first thing Saturday morning and fi...
Day 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20.
Before we left Bend we found a Columbia Sportswear outlet having a clearance sale in a big tent outside the store. We dove into the racks. Mom found a real nice pink fleece jacket for $20. I foun...
Day fifteen.
We turned right at Newport, OR. Highway 20 led east across the state. We drove across I-5. We drove across the Willamette river. We drove over the Cascades. We drove across the Pacific Crest Trai...
Day fourteen.
The drive up Highway 101 from Crescent City to Newport was beautiful and just as I remember from the first time I traveled that road forty-five years ago. After we checked into another La Quinta...
Day twelve and thirteen.
We were packed up and on the road at 7:15am. We were hoping to beat the rush hour traffic. We headed north on 280 and then 19th street through downtown San Francisco which then turned into Highwa...
Day ten and eleven.
I had planned on Highway 1 from Morro Bay to Monterey but it was closed to thru traffic until sometime in September. The only option to see it was to drive up to the closure, backtrack back down ...
Day eight and nine.
We checked out of the motel in Thousand Oaks/Newbury at 10am. A pleasant four hour drive brought us to the next motel in Morro Bay. Emma Pennyworth (the GPS) only got lost once, in Lompoc. We wer...
Day seven.
We were checked out and on the road by 7am. We were headed to the aquarium in Longbeach. We arrived at about 9:30am. The first part of that adventure was finding a place to park in a parking gara...
Day four, five and six.
Day four: I had to get out of the room. I decided to take a walk. I googled for stores, thinking snacks. It seems this motel is in a food desert. The closet big stores were nearly four miles away...
Day three.
It was a cloudy windy day with intermittent rain. Not a good day for our planned excursion to the zoo. We had to get out anyway. We decided to drive to the beach. It was only fifteen minutes away...
Day two. Terrorist checkpoint!
It was freeway driving. Pretty boring. A huge solar farm. A huge wind farm. Sand dunes. Pretty light traffic. There it was- Highway 94. Interstate 8 veers a little north. Highway 94 veers a litt...
Day one.
I had planned on leaving around 10am. But since I was awake and up by 6:15am and had both my coffee and packing and closing up the house done by a little after 8am, we went ahead and left. It too...
Tomorrow it is.
We ran a few errands this morning. Bonworth’s for some clothes shopping for Mom. Walmart for last minute odds and ends. And then we went to Village Inn for lunch. Why? Because Mom wanted to and i...
One more day.
I didn’t do anything except the usual today. I did manage to dig out the old carry-on from under my bed platform. And I dug out one of two pair of pants I own from the winter duffle. It is the br...
Another DM from OD email.
What did the new guy say, something like 400 to 500 daily users here now? It is sure feeling like a ghost town. I received an email today- “Your reclaimed OD needs some attention…” I have ignored...
Heat is on, again.
When I sat down with my first cup of coffee this morning and turned my on my phone I found a message: “Good morning! I know you’re not going to be awake for…two more hours? But I just wanted to s...
The rest of the story.
Sitting in the early evening warmth on 4th I could plainly see why Edward Abbey called this place home. What did he say? Something about living in a city where all the young women are half naked ...
