In case you’re wondering if I’m dead or alive, I’m actually just doing a little re-working and re-configuring on the site, and it’s taking a little longer than I’d planned, so look for an update in another day or two…
Year: 2003
Route 666
I’m sad about the renumbering of Highway 666. Aside from the fact that I’m tired of the Bible-thumpers getting their way (again), this also means the loss of yet one more artifact of the original Route 66, since U.S. 666 got its name by being an offshoot of the more famous road…
Anyhow, Mark and I did a little road trip of our own this weekend, and I got to see one of those few remaining chunks of California I’d not yet visited. Details and pictures to follow…
As for this week, seems there’s a visitor in town…
Lastly, I’m working on a bit of a reorganization of the journals section, so don’t be surprised if some random links don’t work for a few days. Should be fixed shortly…
Talking About the Weather
I’ve said if before and I’ll no doubt say it again. Eureka CA has the best weather in the entire world. It never gets hot, it never gets all that cold, and there’s more rain in Eureka than just about anyplace else in California. It’s a shame they don’t build a city there. I’d move to it if they did…
That said, yer humble host is feeling like absolute crap today, and I’ve decided that it all stems from the fact that the weather has been absolutely fucking miserable here for most of the past week, with abundant sunshine and highs above 80, and my body is rejecting summer. Next week looks even worse. Come on. It’s San Francisco. It’s not supposed to be like this here…
Anyhow, Mark and I have our tickets to North Carolina now. More details to come, but the best part is that we get to miss pride week completely. The down side, of course, is that it’s REALLY miserable in North Carolina in late June…
World Book
Dinner with Sarah at Tad’s on Thursday night. It had been a disturbingly long time since I’d seen her, so this was a very good thing. But I still forgot to give her that book I’ve been holding since December or so…
Speaking of books, I picked up a complete 1935 edition of the World Book Encyclopedia in Stockton on Sunday. One of the first things I checked (having learned much of what I knew about the subject as an 11-year-old from a much later version of the same source) was the article on “sex”. But there was no article on “sex”, only a pointer directing me to the article on “mental conflict”. Interesting, that…
Another interesting note: in 1935, Greensboro, Fresno, and San Jose all had about the same population of around 50,000 people. I think San Jose won…
And now it’s laundry day…