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Glorious, stirring sight! The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here today -- in next week tomorrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumped -- always somebody else's horizons! O bliss! O poop-poop! O my! O my! |
Monday, June 15, 1998
One year ago: By Craft and Violence
My car is in the shop today, so I took the bus to work. It was so cold and damp while I was standing at the bus stop, I was almost shivering. The bus is great in that it is free (work pays for my pass), but it does take a long time, over an hour. That doesn't even count the time I stand at the bus stop because I get there early!
At work I listened to one of my new CDs, bought yesterday afternoon: Appalachia Waltz, with Mark O'Connor on fiddle (he's from Seattle, you know), Edgar Meyer on bass, and Yo-Yo Ma on cello. This recording was so beautiful! Based around texas-style fiddle music, but lots of variety. I even liked the liner notes that explain how they arrived at the arrangements and original compositions on the CD, and include a few atmospheric photos.
Jon Newman, as I hoped, has posted the results of the Fool Serious poll. Full series pass holders rate all the movies they see, then the votes are tabulated and massaged. Jon and his buddies were up all night on Saturday!
While discussing the results of this project on email, I suggested that he might like to join the group of passholders that was getting together for dinner tonight. That way I could get a ride with him! But I did think that he'd enjoy it. I walked over to his building, which is almost as far from mine as you can get and stay on the same campus.
I was amazed when Jon suggested that I should drive his car to dinner! It's an almost new Audi, and I know he was really happy to get it a few months ago. But he was so tired that he wanted me to drive. It took a few minutes to get used to driving it, but I had no problems after that. We listened to the Cherry Poppin' Daddies while driving -- Jon has been a classmate at swing dance classes -- and chatted about our personal lives and the festival.
Jon and I must share our parking philosophies: he agreed enthusiastically with my suggestion that we park about five blocks away from the restaurant, because there were some easily accessible spaces there. Lots of good festival buddies were there, including my friend A---. Great discussions of which movies were favorites, which were detested, and why. And the food was good too!
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I came home and found several messages on my answering machine. The water pump has been installed in my car, and if I can find the documentation on the replacement they did last year, I may save a bit of money on it. I think the receipt is still in the glove compartment. I still have to pay for labor, though, which is the largest part.
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