tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60108102024-03-14T00:39:19.732-07:00The Abbot of Unreason"The trouble with normal is it always gets worse"
-Bruce CockburnAbbotOfUnreasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08484573287776114988noreply@blogger.comBlogger2683125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010810.post-1162132988239228842023-06-10T17:52:00.001-07:002023-06-10T17:52:52.315-07:00We sat on a rock<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU7KO8BKKDRzK75af6w3gX6rYnnpoVAdf29fln5ENdRQLiZe6z5bnShxOh7eLr42QQIcfHz1xW3Q97wezlOKsowfxvbUOpuR8Bhqh5eJzKFCRB6ZE9IatlsmGqliLzK95AuFE0QdF9o8gCaWY6VBJXnKmq3MP6bH7I2rn_Vpryh6P1uD2r/s2676/aura-john.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2109" data-original-width="2676" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU7KO8BKKDRzK75af6w3gX6rYnnpoVAdf29fln5ENdRQLiZe6z5bnShxOh7eLr42QQIcfHz1xW3Q97wezlOKsowfxvbUOpuR8Bhqh5eJzKFCRB6ZE9IatlsmGqliLzK95AuFE0QdF9o8gCaWY6VBJXnKmq3MP6bH7I2rn_Vpryh6P1uD2r/s320/aura-john.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 28px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">At two or three in the morning, we sat on a rock on the shore of the Chesapeake Bay and looked up at the stars. A group of us had driven there after a party, but the others had paired off to other rocks, out of sight. </span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">I put my arm around her and she said, “I’m not looking for a boyfriend right now.” </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">I said, “I’m just cold.”</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">And we just talked. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">My roommate had had a movie party and I had come home from watching a play with a friend just as the movie had finished and the group was deciding to drive to the bay on a lark. I almost didn’t join them. I also didn’t realize that Aura and I were the only ones who didn’t know each other well already. (We had met once before while being chased by a man with a gun on I-83, but we hadn’t talked since then.) </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">Afterward, we went back to my roommate’s house and talked some more. And morning came and we were still talking. And afternoon and night passed and we had not stopped talking.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">What did we talk about? I’d give my left arm to remember. All I remember was the feeling: nothing else in the world mattered to me as much as keeping the sound of her voice in my ears. She fascinated me and I felt fascinating. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">She had to make a dessert for an event, I don’t remember what. But we went shopping for ingredients and made it together at her place. It was dirt cake with gummy worms. She put it into little flower pots. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">We dozed a bit here and there by the end of the second day, but she never suggested I go away. So we talked, and then we talked some more. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">We both had to work on Monday so we finally parted late on Sunday night. I hugged her goodbye and went home; where she called me and said, “I think you didn’t want to just hug.” And I said, “I think you weren’t looking for a boyfriend.” </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">She said, “I thought I wasn’t.”</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">Eleven months later we were married on the shore of the Chesapeake Bay. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">—</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">Ten months after that (thirty years ago today), she was gone. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">—</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">I miss you, Aura Lee. </span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr/>
People who need feed people are the luckiest people.</div>AbbotOfUnreasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08484573287776114988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010810.post-40771483799015117712023-06-09T17:08:00.001-07:002023-06-09T17:08:17.928-07:00<span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Gas </span><div><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">My little CRX got 44 mpg. But it could still run out of gas. I only ran out of gas once in my life. It was in the CRX. It was because I was stubborn. And, unfortunately, it was with Aura. </span><br><div><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 22px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Also, it was on the DC Beltway. It was somewhere around midnight. And there was driving snow. </span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 22px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">We had gone out to her boss’ house for a party. It was late and cold and I didn’t realize how far away it was. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And so we ran out of gas in a snowstorm in the middle of the night. </span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 22px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">And she went ahead and married me anyway. </span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br></span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">—</font></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><br></font></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">Christmas</font></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><br></font></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">She hid an envelope of money in the Christmas tree. </span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 22px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">She had a plan: she wanted to start traditions. Our Christmas tradition was going to be to watch A Christmas Carol. We went to Ford’s Theater in DC to watch it as a live play.</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br></span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">—</font></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><br></font></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">Dinner</font></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><br></font></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">We invited my grandparents over as our first dinner guests and I cooked and at the end of the dinner Grandma folded her napkin and said “Well?” <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>“Well what?” She was sure we had invited them over to tell them we were giving them great grandkids. I just wanted to show them i was an adult!</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br></span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">—</font></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><br></font></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">She loved her friends.</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br></span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">She liked to sail.</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br></span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">She was on my side. Always </span></p></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr/>
People who need feed people are the luckiest people.</div>AbbotOfUnreasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08484573287776114988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010810.post-85166742036964337882023-06-08T18:54:00.001-07:002023-06-08T18:54:09.834-07:00Hawk and Dove <p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">We finally scheduled a “real” date. I picked her up after work, but I was a little late. </span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 22px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">If you can call 45 minutes “a little.” Remember, this was the pre-texting era for a lot of us, so I couldn’t text her.</span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 22px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">It was also pre-google maps. </span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 22px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">She worked at a dental practice in the Watergate. I worked on the other side of the Potomac River. During rush hour, many roads in DC run differently than at other times of the day. I was supposed to come across the river, get onto Rock Creek Parkway very briefly, and exit around the Kennedy Center. </span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 22px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">But I thought the exit was just entrance to parking at Kennedy Center and got stuck in stop and go traffic on the parkway headed north and away from the Watergate. For miles, at rush hour, there was no open exit. So I wound up farther into Northwest DC than I wanted to be and had to make my way back into the city against the rush hour tide. </span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 22px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Luckily, DC is a grid system with numbered and lettered roads, so I wasn’t seriously lost so much as seriously delayed. </span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 22px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">When i arrived 45 minutes late, she was still standing there, beautiful in her work skirt and sneakers. I was very upset to be late but she was a rock. </span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 22px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">We went to Hawk and Dove (I was so excited to hear it name checked much later in The West Wing) and had fancy individual pizzas, one of which had sun dried tomatoes, the fashionable topping of the early 90s. </span></p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr/>
People who need feed people are the luckiest people.</div>AbbotOfUnreasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08484573287776114988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010810.post-57611274104461955452023-06-07T18:23:00.001-07:002023-06-07T18:27:46.709-07:00B&B<p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">I am at a bed and breakfast tonight, a lighthouse keeper’s cottage, and it reminds me of New Years. </span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br></span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">For our first New Years Eve, we went to a bed and breakfast in West Virginia near Blackwater Falls. It was an interesting house, built in pieces over time by an engineer in the 1800s, so it had odd angles and lots of different floor heights. </span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 22px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">I remember coming out of the bathroom and missing the step down into the room, falling forward to knock my head audibly on the frame of the bed. She laughed, but she loved me and I loved her laugh. And her. </span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 22px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">I also remember getting interrupted at breakfast by other guests who wondered if she was Jodie Foster. She got that a lot. </span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br></span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">We played chess. </span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 22px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">That was the first bed and breakfast I had ever been to. She seemed so much more worldly and mature than I was. She was amazing. Of course, she was almost four months older, so she was bound to be more mature…</span></p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr/>
People who need feed people are the luckiest people.</div>AbbotOfUnreasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08484573287776114988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010810.post-18877289974412967512023-06-06T20:53:00.001-07:002023-06-06T20:53:12.182-07:00Water<p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">I’m looking out over the beach tonight and thinking about the fact that we never got to see the Pacific together. I know she got to see it; she was an exchange student in Japan so at the very least she flew over it. </span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 22px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">We started on a beach. Well, we met in a car chase with a gunman, but we didn’t form a bond from that. I didn’t see her again for almost a month. And that was when we started. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>On a beach.</span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 22px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">We honeymooned in Tulum in Mexico, where we spent a lot of time in the water. The honeymoon was a surprise, twice. It was purposely a surprise for her. </span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 22px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">She let me have the fun of planning it as a surprise. So I asked a friend if we could use his cabin in Maine. It was October, so I thought it would be a beautiful time to go. </span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 22px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">But when Aura and I were visiting my friend and his wife, my friend’s wife leaned over to her and said, “You’re going to love the cabin.” <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He had neglected to tell her it was a surprise!</span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 22px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">So I scrambled and got a package tour to Mexico without letting Aura know. I worked with a friend to make sure she had good beach clothes packed instead of warm Maine October clothes. </span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 22px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">When we went to the airport instead of driving to Maine, she was delighted. She revealed that, though she was thrilled to be married, she hadn’t been as excited about Maine as I thought. </span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 22px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">When we landed, we were met by a tour rep who put us on a shuttle. The shuttle went to five hotels before dropping us at the last one, just the two of us. The problem was, the name of the hotel was not the same as the one I had reserved!</span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 22px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">My Spanish and the driver’s English were equally sad, so in the end he unloaded our luggage and drove off. </span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 22px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Aura was as confused as I was, but she never lost her equilibrium. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>She was always calm and understanding, and always more ready than I for whatever adventure life was presenting. We went inside to learn that the hotel I had booked had been shut down by the health department and this hotel (this resort, really) was honoring the reservations. </span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 22px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Better than that: this hotel was a four star hotel while the original was struggling to reach three. We were pampered and safe and it was the best honeymoon ever. </span></p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr/>
People who need feed people are the luckiest people.</div>AbbotOfUnreasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08484573287776114988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010810.post-67326716931788470202023-06-06T16:49:00.004-07:002023-06-06T16:49:47.297-07:00Cheesecake Factory<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiat-WuhZV2XQjpFsZiAlKaSzUjWS6XNR5z-OPENn28PHJvMS3kqJC9Ldpm0ygWuBtvA2mEbJoEeDv1IJ7qDGHBgJU_1bDb7v4yzIgLRP89NENRw1U88UGEHay3Nu5X3jxrrknw6aaQDAOcflZh-SsK3RQQVGsJG_hRO42HeWH7O7EMTCa6/s4032/necklace.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiat-WuhZV2XQjpFsZiAlKaSzUjWS6XNR5z-OPENn28PHJvMS3kqJC9Ldpm0ygWuBtvA2mEbJoEeDv1IJ7qDGHBgJU_1bDb7v4yzIgLRP89NENRw1U88UGEHay3Nu5X3jxrrknw6aaQDAOcflZh-SsK3RQQVGsJG_hRO42HeWH7O7EMTCa6/s320/necklace.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">By mid-January, we had already been talking about marriage seriously for a few weeks. You need to understand that I’m cautious and slow to make decisions and commitment is the worst! The only reason I’ve never gotten a tattoo is because I can’t commit to, or decide which, something that will define me forever. But this was different and I had zero doubts. </p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">So on the two month anniversary of our first real date, we went to the Cheesecake Factory in Tysons Corner. She unwrapped the present I gave her and I’m afraid I broke her heart a little bit. The gift was a tall plastic mug that said, “I think I’ll have a diet soda to go with my walnut brownie.”</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">She gathered herself and even managed a very nice “Thank you.”</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Then I suggested she look inside the mug. </p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr/>
People who need feed people are the luckiest people.</div>AbbotOfUnreasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08484573287776114988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010810.post-78223090845538732132023-06-05T18:28:00.001-07:002023-06-05T18:28:01.447-07:00Our road trip<div>[I’m going to skip the Spanish for the rest of the week.]</div><div><br></div><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">We did take one major road trip. We became engaged while her parents were sailing the Intra-Coastal Waterway. They had sold their house in Wisconsin</span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </span> <span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">and bought a boat.</span><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 22px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">This meant they were out of touch for most of the planning of the wedding, which lowered stress. But it also meant that I had not met them until we had been engaged for some time. </span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 22px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">They sailed down the Mississippi and along the Gulf coast. They sailed around Florida and then ran out of steam in North Carolina. So we drove down to meet them. </span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 22px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Somewhere in Virginia, we stayed at a random motel. It was one of the old style, with individual cabins. If we had been fans of horror films, we would have kept driving. </span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 22px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">The proprietor, in his stained t-shirt, said to us: “Take your shower before 9. I turn the water heater off at 9. Don’t complain to me if you have shampoo in your hair at 9:15.”</span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 22px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">He also said, “There’s a television. Turn it to channel 6. If you don’t like what’s on there, turn it to channel 7. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>If you don’t like that, turn it to channel 12. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>If you don’t like that, turn it off.”</span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 22px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">We survived the night and didn’t even get bedbugs. </span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr/>
People who need feed people are the luckiest people.</div>AbbotOfUnreasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08484573287776114988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010810.post-64671049798246804282023-06-04T18:49:00.002-07:002023-06-04T18:49:11.218-07:00Viaje por camino <p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">About six months later, I bought a necklace and put my wedding ring on it. Carol thought that meant I was ready for a date. I thought I was, but I was not. </span></p><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">Before I put my ring on a necklace, I flew to visit friends in California. I visited friends in LA, Bakersfield, and San Francisco. And in between, i drove. A long road trip has always been how I deal best with emotions. </span><span style="font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">That trip ended with a hike in Muir Woods, north of San Francisco. </span><span style="font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">So on this big anniversary, I am going on another road trip and going north from San Francisco along the coast. Tonight I am in Fort Bragg. </span><span style="font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">I am going to fill the week with everything i can remember. Is that self-indulgent? Probably. Am I going to do it anyway? Yes</span><span style="font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">—</span><span style="font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">Depués que cerca seis meses, compré un </span><em style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 17px;">collar</em><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"> y puse mi círculo de bodas en ello. Carol pensó que significado estaba listo para un fecho. Pensé que estaba, sino no estaba. </span><span style="font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">Antes de poner mi circulo en mi collar, </span><em style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 17px;">volé</em><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"> a visitar an mis amigos en California. Visité a amigos en LA, Bakersfield, an San Francisco. Entre, conducí un coche. Un largo viaje de camino ha sido siempre como </span><em style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 17px;">manejo</em><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"> mejor con emociónes. </span><span style="font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">Esta viaje cabio con una </span><em style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 17px;">caminata</em><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"> en Muir Woods, al norte de San Francisco. </span><span style="font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">Pues en esto aniversario, voy en otra viaje de camino y voy norte a la costa. Esta noche, estoy en Fort Bragg. </span><span style="font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">Voy a llenar la semana con todo lo que puedo recordar. Es</span><em style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 17px;"> auto indulgente</em><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">? Probablemente. Voy hacerlo todos modos ? Sí</span><span style="font-size: 17px;"><br /></span></div><ul style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><li style="font-size: 17px; margin-left: 15px;"><em style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody;">collar - necklace</em></li><li style="font-size: 17px; margin-left: 15px;"><em style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody;">volé - i flew</em></li><li style="font-size: 17px; margin-left: 15px;"><em style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody;">manejo - i deal (verb)</em></li><li style="font-size: 17px; margin-left: 15px;"><em style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody;">caminata - hike (noun)</em></li><li style="font-size: 17px; margin-left: 15px;"><em style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody;">auto indulgente - self-indulgent</em></li></ul><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">—</span><span style="font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">Google says:</span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">(I don't care what Google says. I'm going to stick with "viaje por camino" since a lot of it has been along the Camino Real...)<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><strong style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 17px;"></strong><blockquote style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 17px;">Unos</strong><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"> seis meses después, compré un collar y le puse mi </span><strong style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 17px;">anillo</strong><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"> de bodas. Carol pensó que eso </span><strong style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 17px;">significaba</strong><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"> que estaba lista para una </span><strong style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 17px;">cita</strong><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">. Pensé que lo </span><strong style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 17px;">era</strong><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">, pero no lo </span><strong style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 17px;">era</strong><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">.</span><span style="font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">Antes de poner mi anillo en un collar, volé para visitar a unos amigos en California. Visité a amigos en Los Ángeles, Bakersfield y San Francisco. Y </span><strong style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 17px;">en el medio, conduje</strong><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">. Un largo viaje por </span><strong style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 17px;">carretera</strong><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"> siempre ha sido mi mejor </span><strong style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 17px;">forma de lidiar</strong><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"> con las emociones.</span><span style="font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><strong style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 17px;">Ese</strong><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"> viaje </span><strong style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 17px;">terminó</strong><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"> con una caminata en Muir Woods, al norte de San Francisco.</span><span style="font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><strong style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 17px;">Entonces</strong><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">, en este gran aniversario, voy a hacer otro viaje por </span><strong style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 17px;">carretera</strong><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"> y voy </span><strong style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 17px;">hacia</strong><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"> el norte desde San Francisco a lo largo de la costa. Esta noche estoy en Fort Bragg.</span><span style="font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">Voy a llenar la semana con todo lo que pueda recordar. ¿Es eso autoindulgencia? Probablemente. ¿Lo </span><strong style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 17px;">haré</strong><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"> de todos modos? Sí</span></blockquote><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr/>
People who need feed people are the luckiest people.</div>AbbotOfUnreasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08484573287776114988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010810.post-77855416423077757892023-06-03T07:19:00.001-07:002023-06-03T07:19:11.641-07:00No sabía<p> “Heading north<br />to San Francisco <br />for the Labor Day Weekend show. <br />I’ve got my Hushpuppies on<br />I guess I never was meant for<br />glitter rock and roll.<br /><br />But honey I didn’t know<br />that I’d be missing you so.”<br /><br />I rented a car and am ready to go. I am going to watch the Orioles play the Giants. On Sunday I am going to drive to Portland, very slowly. This trip is to give in to missing Aura and disappear for a bit. <br /><br />—<br /><br /><<me dirijo al norte<br />a San Francisco <br />al Día de Labor fin de semana escenario.<br />Tengo mis Hushpuppies<br />Supongo nunca fui destinado <br />a brillo roca y rollo.<br /><br />Pero, miel, no sabe que te extrañaría tanto.>><br /><br />Yo alquilé una coche y estoy listo ir. Voy a mirar los Orioles y los Giants juegan beisbol. En domingo, voy conducir la coche a Portland, my lentamente. Este viaje es para rendirse ante la falta de Aura y desaparecer por una vez. <br /><br />—<br /><br />Still struggling with future tense. <br /><br />* me dirijo - i’m heading<br />* te extrañaría - missing you<br />* alquilé - i rented<br />* rendirse ante la falta - give in to missing <br /><br />—<br /></p><p>Google says: </p><p><br /></p><blockquote>Dirigiéndose hacia el norte<br />a san francisco<br />para el espectáculo del fin de semana del Día del Trabajo.<br />Tengo mis Hushpuppies en<br />Supongo que nunca fui destinado para<br />brillo rock and roll.<br /><br />Pero cariño, no sabía<br />que te extrañaría tanto.<br /><br />Alquilé un auto y estoy listo para partir. Voy a ver a los Orioles jugar contra los Gigantes. El domingo voy a conducir a Portland, muy despacio. Este viaje es para ceder ante la falta de Aura y desaparecer un poco.</blockquote><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr/>
People who need feed people are the luckiest people.</div>AbbotOfUnreasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08484573287776114988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010810.post-39892091861096413842023-05-23T20:00:00.001-07:002023-05-23T20:00:09.589-07:00Sin duda <div><br></div><div><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Without a doubt, work is too much. I have to buy a lottery ticket. That’s a good plan, no?</span></p><p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 22px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">—-</span></p><p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 22px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Sin duda, el trabajo es demasiado. Debo comprar un boleto de loteria. Ese es un buen plan, no?</span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br></span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">—</font></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><br></font></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">Google says: </font></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><br></font></p><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large JgzqYd RES9jf tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" id="tw-target-text" dir="ltr" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 24px; line-height: 28px; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); border: medium; padding: 10px 0.14em 10px 0px; position: relative; margin-top: -10px; margin-bottom: -10px; resize: none; overflow: hidden; width: 358px; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"><span class="Y2IQFc" lang="es">Sin duda, el trabajo es demasiado. <i>Tengo que</i> comprar un <i>billete</i> de lotería. Ese es un buen plan, ¿no?</span></pre></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr/>
People who need feed people are the luckiest people.</div>AbbotOfUnreasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08484573287776114988noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010810.post-60488328650156009122023-04-30T17:21:00.001-07:002023-04-30T17:21:33.603-07:00La presencia de tu ausencia me sigue<p>"The presence of your absence follows me." This is a line from a Pierce Pettis song that I love but I forget for many seasons. Then there are "unexpected flashbacks I don’t want to see.” Days like today are hard. "You're not there."</p><p>--</p><p>«La presencia de tu ausencia me sigue.» Esta es una linea de una cancion de Pierce Pettis que amo pero olvido por muchos estaciones. Luego estan «<i>flashbacks inesperados</i> que no deseo ver.» Dias como hoy son dificil. «No eres ahi.»</p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>flashbacks inesperados - unexpected flashbacks</li></ul><p>--</p><p> Google says:</p><p></p><blockquote>"La presencia de tu ausencia me sigue". Esta es una línea de una canción de Pierce Pettis que <i>me encanta</i> pero que olvido durante muchas temporadas. Luego están los "flashbacks inesperados que no quiero ver". Días como hoy son duros "Tú no estás ahí".</blockquote><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>I can see "me encanta". I suppose love should be reserved for people :)</li><li>I would do better at diacritical marks if my keyboard were better (sure!)</li><li>The vocabulary app is helping, I think, though nothing is helping me actually bother to blog more often... <br /></li><li>I prefer my "eres ahí" over "estás ahí" because I'm learning that ser is more permanent than estar and the song is all about a permanent absence, or at least the feeling of one.</li><li>I can't find a video of the song. But here's <a href="https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=you%27re+not+there+youtube#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:9cf6b2e1,vid:IC-bSbXZBcU">another one with the same title</a> that's pretty good.<br /></li></ul><p></p><p> <br /></p><br /><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr/>
People who need feed people are the luckiest people.</div>AbbotOfUnreasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08484573287776114988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010810.post-2827644488972426152023-04-29T17:47:00.004-07:002023-04-29T17:47:45.031-07:00Ship in a Glenlivet Bottle<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3eC3i7G6Lscu28tOs-lXEs3OUQXsYSY8oBdjTp80vBfwmDYF0AMjz7BZwz5W9iKsPIdCQAxedGGKXt4ykVutf6AEhR5LuGamhEJqMCQgjGyjrsEgxEQ5-x8kRM8HiIc4NojsutuqvBg20z4tJH2iJFHHTAAJ4VglKfR1f2ro_p8T-phFk/s4032/2023-04-28%2018.18.00.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3eC3i7G6Lscu28tOs-lXEs3OUQXsYSY8oBdjTp80vBfwmDYF0AMjz7BZwz5W9iKsPIdCQAxedGGKXt4ykVutf6AEhR5LuGamhEJqMCQgjGyjrsEgxEQ5-x8kRM8HiIc4NojsutuqvBg20z4tJH2iJFHHTAAJ4VglKfR1f2ro_p8T-phFk/s320/2023-04-28%2018.18.00.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br />18x24 in/ 45x60cm<br /><br />This is my first painting since my eye surgery. I need to relearn so many things! The most difficult thing is that my eyesight is so completely opposite: Before, I needed to lean in to focus, but now i have to lean away!<br /><br />As always, I am not happy with this one but I chalk that up to the learning. <br /><br /><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr/>
People who need feed people are the luckiest people.</div>AbbotOfUnreasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08484573287776114988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010810.post-90097134454266268612023-03-20T18:33:00.000-07:002023-03-20T18:33:00.197-07:00Barco de papel en neón<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjihfmmdQLpPMUE6NhUw9pQUKC5A1nlDYiaP0zmp1m8GlTPgiSTDB15723D12bLcs1PBPDuhJgRSZrgADvX5oCXNt7bYh9vhJtElRwJB9xHotbAtEEQQcs6Wdw66Fs9VyE0OZX56IDK-ZJMJzmxw9G9E_qAxt9-0mM7T4JVXKbyXM0ZzSKh/s4032/2023-03-19%2016.45.09.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjihfmmdQLpPMUE6NhUw9pQUKC5A1nlDYiaP0zmp1m8GlTPgiSTDB15723D12bLcs1PBPDuhJgRSZrgADvX5oCXNt7bYh9vhJtElRwJB9xHotbAtEEQQcs6Wdw66Fs9VyE0OZX56IDK-ZJMJzmxw9G9E_qAxt9-0mM7T4JVXKbyXM0ZzSKh/s320/2023-03-19%2016.45.09.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Yes, it’s another paper boat, but this time in the form of neon. To my eyes, it’s much more reddish blue than my iphone seems to have captured. <br /><br />It was fun to come down to the Museum of Neon Art in Glendale and learn how to bend glass for two days. I think the bends are all mine but I had a lot of help getting tubes to go together. The instructors were great and the museum folks were super welcoming. <br /><br />Now I just have to get it safely across the 180 miles to home. <p></p><p>--</p><p>Sí, es otro <b>barco</b> de papel, pero esta vez en la forma de neon. A mis ojos, es mucho más rojo azul de lo que mi iphone parece haber <b>capturado</b>. </p><p>Fue feliz bajar al museo de arte neon en Glendale y aprender como para doblar vidrio para dos dias. Creo que <b>las curvas</b> son todas mias pero tuve mucho ayudo haciendo <b>tubos</b> ir juntos. Los profesores fueron muy bien y the gente del museo fueron muy <b>acogedoras</b>. </p><p>Ahora simplemente tengo que llevarlo seguramente atraves 180 millas a mi casa.<br /></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>barco: boat</li><li>capturado: captured</li><li>para doblar vidrio: to bend glass (fold)<br /></li><li>las curvas: the bends</li><li>tubos: tubes</li><li>acogedor/a: welcoming<br /></li></ul><p>--</p><p>Google says:</p><blockquote><p>Sí, es otro barco de papel, pero esta vez en forma de neón. A mis ojos, es mucho más <i>azul rojizo</i> de lo que mi iPhone parece haber capturado.<br /><br />Fue <i>divertido ir</i> al Museo de Arte Neón en Glendale y aprender a doblar vidrio <i>durante</i> dos días. Creo que las curvas son todas mías, pero tuve <i>mucha ayuda</i> para <i>unir</i> los tubos. Los <i>instructores</i> fueron <i>geniales</i> y la gente del museo fue muy acogedora.<br /><br />Ahora solo tengo que <i>cruzar</i> con seguridad las 180 millas hasta casa.<br /></p></blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr/>
People who need feed people are the luckiest people.</div>AbbotOfUnreasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08484573287776114988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010810.post-5597014150447032452023-03-17T18:04:00.000-07:002023-03-17T18:04:01.059-07:00Advertencias de inundación<p>I went to the grocery store on Saturday. The rain had paused and the flood warnings had been lifted. But when I tried to drive home, the 1 was closed. The only way to get home from the grocery store five miles away was to go to SLO and Atascadero. It took an hour. <br /><br />Another nice thing about my operations is that I could have decided to get a room and not gone home without worrying about having contact solution or glasses.</p><p> --</p><p>Fui al supermercado en sábado. La lluvia <b>se detuvo </b>por un corto vez y las advertencias de inundaciones levantieron. Pero cuando t<b>raté de </b>conducir a casa, el 1 estaba cerrado. La unica manera a llegar a casa desde el supermercado de cinco millas fui ir a SLO y Atascadero. <b>Tomó</b> una hora.</p><p>Otra cosa buena cual mi operaciones es que <b>podría haber decidido</b> reservar una habitacion y no fui a casa <b>sin perocuparte por</b> tener solucion de contacto o anteojos.<br /></p><p><br /></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>had stopped/had paused: se detuvo </li><li>tried to: raté de </li><li>could have decided: podría haber decidido</li><li>without worrying about: sin perocuparte por</li><li>it took: tomó <br /></li></ul><p>-- </p><p>Google says: </p><blockquote><p>Fui al supermercado el sábado. <i>Había dejado de llover</i> y <i>se habían levantado </i>las advertencias de inundación. Pero cuando traté de conducir a casa, la 1 estaba cerrada. La única <i>forma de </i>llegar a casa desde el supermercado a cinco millas de distancia era ir a SLO y Atascadero. Tomó una hora.<br /><br />Otra cosa buena <i>de</i> mis operaciones es que podría haber decidido <i>conseguir</i> una habitación y no <i>irme</i> a casa sin preocuparme por tener <i>una</i> solución de contacto o anteojos.<br /></p></blockquote><p> </p><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr/>
People who need feed people are the luckiest people.</div>AbbotOfUnreasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08484573287776114988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010810.post-36893318444241043102023-03-09T18:48:00.001-08:002023-03-09T18:48:00.205-08:00<p>Rain. Rain. Rain. This winter has been all about rain. We expect five or six more inches before the weekend. In a place where it rains 17 inches a year, this weather is unprecedented.<br /><br />I am settling into my new role, but there are new challenges and many uncertainties. People come and go. Sometimes I like when they go. Sometimes I do not like when they go. <br /><br />My eyes are not yet ready to paint, but they are working well. I wish I could walk but the rain. Rain. Rain. I am full of rain.</p><p>--</p><p>La lluvia. La lluvia. La lluvia. Este invierno <b>ha sido</b> todo sobre la lluvia. Esperamos cinco o seis mas <b>pulgadas</b> antes del fin de semana. En un lugar donde llueve diecisiete pulgadas en un año, el tiempo <b>no tiene precedentes</b>. </p><p>Estoy <b>acomadando</b> en mi nuevo puesto, pero hay nuevos <b>retos</b> y muchos <b>incertidumbres</b>. Gente viene y gente va. A veces me gusta cuando se van. A veces no me gusta cuando se van.</p><p>Mis ojos no estan listo para pintar, pero trabajando bien. Espero podria caminar pero la lluvia. La lluvia. Estoy lleno de la lluvia. <br /></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>ha sido - has been </li><li>pulgadas - inches</li><li>no tiene precedentes - is unprecedented (has no precedents)</li><li>acomadando - settling </li><li>retos / desafíos<i> </i>- challenges</li><li>incertidumbres - uncertainties</li><li>Ojalá - hopefully, but ojalá pudiera caminar is I wish I could walk<br /></li></ul><p>--</p><p>Google says:</p><p></p><blockquote>Lluvia. Lluvia. Lluvia. Este invierno ha sido todo sobre la lluvia. Esperamos cinco o seis <b>pulgadas más</b> antes del fin de semana. En un lugar donde llueve 17 pulgadas <b>al año</b>, este <b>clima</b> no tiene precedentes.<br /><br />Me estoy <b>adaptando</b> a mi nuevo rol, pero hay nuevos <b>desafíos</b> y muchas incertidumbres. La gente viene y va. A veces me gusta cuando se van. A veces no me gusta cuando se van.<br /><br />Mis ojos <b>aún</b> no están listos para pintar, pero <b>están</b> <b>funcionando</b> bien. Ojalá pudiera caminar pero la lluvia. Lluvia. Lluvia. Estoy lleno de lluvia.</blockquote><br /><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr/>
People who need feed people are the luckiest people.</div>AbbotOfUnreasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08484573287776114988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010810.post-22767201209656185842023-03-06T19:03:00.001-08:002023-03-06T19:03:00.192-08:00Mis dos ojos son 20/20<p>I returned to work today. The two operations on my eyes went well, but in between I had bad double vision. It gave me headaches and i could not work. However, after the second operation, both of my eyes are 20/20!<br /><br />I have to wait until the end of the month to know what my far and near vision will be. I still need glasses for reading. <br /><br />I dropped soap in the shower this weekend and for the first time since second grade I was able to see it to find it! I am excited and I am grateful to the friends who gave me support during the two weeks. </p><p>--</p><p>Volví al trabajo hoy. Las dos operaciones en mis ojos vieron bien, pero entre tengo mal vision doble. Me da <b>dolores de cabeza</b> y no pude trabajar. Aunque, despues de la operacion segunda, los dos ojos son 20/20!<br /></p><p>Tenqo que <b>esperar</b> hasta el fin de la mes saber que mi lejos y cercano vision será. Todavia necesito anteojos para leer. </p><p><b>Se me cayó</b> el jabón en la <b>ducha</b> este fin de semana y por la primera vez desde grado segundo pude verlo a buscarlo! Estoy emocianado y estoy <b>agradecida </b>para mis amigas cual me dan apoyo en las dos semanas.<br /></p><p>dolores de cabeza - headaches<br />esperar - to wait (same as hope?)<br />se me cayó - it I dropped<br />la ducha - the shower<br />agradecida - grateful</p><p>--</p><p>Google said:</p><p></p><blockquote><b>Regresé</b> al trabajo hoy. Las dos operaciones en mis ojos <b>salieron</b> bien, pero en el <b>medio tuve mala</b> visión doble. Me <b>daba</b> dolores de cabeza y no <b>podía</b> trabajar. <b>Sin embargo</b>, después de la segunda operación, ¡mis dos ojos son 20/20!<br /><br />Tengo que esperar hasta fin de mes <b>para</b> saber <b>cuál</b> será mi visión de lejos y de <b>cerca</b>. Todavía necesito <b>gafas</b> para leer.<br /><br />¡Se me cayó jabón en la ducha este fin de semana y por primera vez desde segundo grado pude verlo <b>para encontrarlo</b>! Estoy emocionada y agradecida <b>con</b> los amigos que me <b>brindaron</b> apoyo <b>durante</b> las dos semanas.</blockquote><p>Interesting. Aside from getting the gender of my friends wrong, it chose a different tense for my verbs. I'm ok with my anteojos vs gafas, and I used "to look for it" when I meant "to find it." That last one I knew better. Definitely some word order differences, which i plan to work on at some future point.</p><p>brindaron - provided (also toasted, oddly)<br />medio tuve - middle i had (instead of entre tengo - between i have (I should have gotten that one right, too))<br />salieron - went (instead of vieron - saw. I <i>meant</i> to conjugate venir, but I also know that would have been fueron, so my brain was fried)<br /></p><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr/>
People who need feed people are the luckiest people.</div>AbbotOfUnreasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08484573287776114988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010810.post-83225067638235794872023-02-19T15:59:00.001-08:002023-02-19T15:59:48.711-08:00De guardia<p>It seems that 95% of the stories we tell are in the past tense. But we learn present tense first, at least in foreign language classes. I don’t remember what order I learned English. <br /><br />This weekend I am on-call. I switched with a colleague because my regular rotation would have been during the surgery on my left eye. This is a holiday weekend so he was happy to switch. <br /><br />As usual, there were no calls. Often there are alerts that must be acknowledged but are not urgent. This weekend there were none. It is nice to be quiet but i would like a distraction. </p><p>--</p><p>Parece que 95% de la historias contamos estan en el <b>tiempo pasado</b>. Pero aprendemos tiempo presente primero, al menos en clases de idiomas extranjeros. No recuerdo que <b>orden</b> que aprendi ingles. </p><p>Este fin de semana estoy <b>de guardia</b>. <b>Cambíe con</b> un colega porque mi rotación normal <b>habría sido</b> al tiempo mismo la cirugía en mi ojo izquierdo. Esta es un fin de semana de fiestas asi que estaba feliz cambiar.</p><p><b>Como siempre</b>, no hubo <b>llamadas</b>. A menudo, hay alertas que deben ser <b>reconocida</b> pero no son urgentes. Este fin de semana no hubo ninguno. Es bueno estar tranquilo, pero quiciera una distraccion. <br /></p><p><br /></p><p>- tiempo pasado: past tense<br />- idiomas extranjeros: foreign language (plural)<br />- orden: order<br />- de guardia: on-call<br />- Cambíe con: I switched with<br />- habría sido: would have been (this one I should know by now)<br />- como siempre: as usual (like always)<br />- llamadas: calls<br />- reconocida: acknowledged (f) /reconocer<br /></p><p>--</p><p>Google said:</p><blockquote><p>Parece que el 95% de las historias que contamos están en tiempo pasado. Pero primero aprendemos el tiempo presente, al menos en las clases de idiomas extranjeros. No recuerdo <i>en</i> qué orden aprendí inglés.<br /><br />Este fin de semana estoy de guardia. Cambié con un colega porque mi rotación <i>regular</i> habría sido <i>durante</i> la cirugía en mi ojo izquierdo. Este es un fin de semana <i>festivo</i>, por lo que estaba feliz <i>de</i> cambiar.<br /><br />Como <i>de costumbre</i>, no hubo llamadas. A menudo hay alertas que deben <i>reconocerse</i> pero que no son urgentes. Este fin de semana no hubo ninguno. Es bueno estar <i>callado</i> pero me <i>gustaría</i> una distracción.<br /></p></blockquote><p>- como de costumbre: as usual / like of custom<br />- callado: reserved / quiet</p><p>I started using a new flashcard app and I think it's helping with my vocabulary, though I need heavy work on both conjugation and on accent-use! <br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr/>
People who need feed people are the luckiest people.</div>AbbotOfUnreasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08484573287776114988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010810.post-53286516174996349062023-02-16T18:45:00.001-08:002023-02-16T18:45:00.193-08:00Pasta de dientes<p> Today I bought toothpaste.<br /><br />I am still very nervous and I am struggling to work or to do anything. So I try to make little tasks to distract me. And so I bought toothpaste. It is not exciting, but it is distracting to get into the car, drive to the pharmacy and buy toothpaste. <br /><br />I will only have to look up toothpaste once! (But I am guessing it will be soap of teeth.)<br /><br />My friend is sick. It is not a good time for her to be sick. So I bought toothpaste.<br /></p><p>--</p><p>Hoy compré <b>pasta de dientes</b>.</p><p>Estoy todavía muy nervioso y estoy sufriendo trabajar o hacer algo. Así que trato hacer <b>tereas</b> pequeñas a distractaerme. Y tan compré pasta de dientes. No es <b>emocionante</b>, pero es distractando a ir en el automóvil, <b>conducir</b> hasta la farmacia, y comprar pasta de dientes.<br /></p><p>Tendré que buscar pasta de dientes una vez! (Pero estoy adivinando será <b>jabón</b> de dientes.)</p><p>Mi amiga esta enferma. No es un vez bueno para ella esta enfirma. Tan compré pasta de dientes.<br /></p><p>--</p><p>- pasta de dientes: toothpaste<br />- tereas: tasks<br />- conducir: to drive / to conduct?<br />- adivinando: guessing<br />- jabón: soap<br />- emocionante: exciting<br /></p><p>-- <br /> Google says:<br /></p><p></p><blockquote>Hoy compré pasta de dientes.<br /><br />Todavía estoy muy nervioso y me <i>cuesta (?)</i> trabajar o hacer <i>cualquier cosa</i>. Así que trato <i>de</i> hacer pequeñas tareas <i>para</i> distraerme. Así que compré pasta de dientes. No es emocionante, pero <i>distrae subir al automóvil</i>, conducir hasta la farmacia y comprar pasta de dientes.<br /><br />¡Solo tendré que buscar pasta de dientes una vez! (Pero <i>supongo que</i> será jabón de dientes).<br /><br />Mi amigo está enfermo. No es un <i>buen momento</i> para que ella esté enferma. Así que compré pasta de dientes.<br /></blockquote><p></p><p>- cualquier cosa: any thing<br />- distrae subir al automóvil: it distracts to get into the car<br />- supongo que: I guess it <br />- buen momento: good time</p><p><br /></p><p>Well, this one was interesting because I tried to go with some things I <i>thought</i> I knew and so didn't look them up. I'm struggling with "so" today. <br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr/>
People who need feed people are the luckiest people.</div>AbbotOfUnreasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08484573287776114988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010810.post-28838870746138752532023-02-14T18:46:00.159-08:002023-02-14T18:46:00.204-08:00Las olas de la mar<p>Today I walked down to see if the ocean was still there. I do this from time to time because I need to get away from my desk or because I need to think. Sometimes I do it because I actually want to know if it is still there. This week has been a lot of work and I’m tired.<br /><br />The waves are big because of the wind. The weather app is reporting 28mph gusts. The sound of the wind is enough to drown out the sound of the waves. I don’t always hear waves at my house, which is almost two blocks and a cliff away from the ocean. I hope that the cold does not kill the recently bloomed flowers we’ve been seeing here on the coast.</p><p> --</p><p> Hoy <b>caminé</b> abajo para ver si la mar todavía estaba allí. Hago esta de vez de vez porque necesito alejarme de mi escritorio o porque necesito pensar. A veces lo hago porque realmente deseo saber si todavía está allí. Esta semana ha sido mucho trabajo y estoy cansado.</p><p>Las <b>olas </b>estan largo porque el <b>viento</b>. La aplicación del <b>tiempo</b> está informando ráfagas de 28mph. El <b>sonido</b> del viento está suficiente para <b>ahogar</b> el sonido de los olas. No siempre escucho olas a mi casa que está a casi dos caminos y un acantilado de la mar. Espero que el frío no <b>mata</b> las flores <b>recién florecidas</b> que hemos viendo aquí en la costa.<br /></p><p><br /></p><p>- caminé: I walked<br />- todavía: still<br />- alejarme: get me away<br />- olas: waves<br />- viento: wind<br />- tiempo: weather<br />- sonido: sound <br />- ahogar: to drown<br />- acantilado: cliff<br />- mata: it kills<br />- recién florecidas: recently blooming</p><p></p><p>--</p><p>Google says:</p><p><br /></p><blockquote>Hoy <i>bajé</i> para ver si el <i>océano</i> todavía estaba allí. Hago esto de <i>vez en cuando</i> porque necesito alejarme de mi escritorio o porque necesito pensar. A veces lo hago porque realmente quiero saber si todavía está allí. Esta semana ha sido de mucho trabajo y estoy cansada.<br /><br />Las olas son grandes <i>por</i> el viento. La aplicación <i>meteorológica</i> <i>informa</i> ráfagas de 28 mph. El sonido del viento es suficiente para ahogar el sonido de las olas. No siempre escucho olas en mi casa, que está a casi dos cuadras y un acantilado del océano. Espero que el frío no mate las flores recién <i>brotadas</i> que hemos estado viendo aquí en la costa.</blockquote>- bajé: went down<br />- brotadas: sprouted<br />- cuadras: blocks<br /><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr/>
People who need feed people are the luckiest people.</div>AbbotOfUnreasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08484573287776114988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010810.post-66854248914559563722023-02-12T15:06:00.003-08:002023-02-12T15:13:53.084-08:00Centeno y mostaza<p>On Saturday, I took a drive along the coast to the north. It was raining. Until Thursday, the PCH was closed at San Simeon because of mudslides caused by the rains in January. Now the road is open to Ragged Point. I thought it would be nice to visit the business there to support them a little. <br /><br />I asked for a hot dog. The man behind the counter said they had no hot dogs, or rather that they had no hot dog buns. So I said I didn’t care if he put it into a hamburger bun. He said they also have rye. So I had a hot dog on rye in my car in the rain. <br /><br />I got mustard on my shirt. </p><p>-- </p><p>En sábado, fui dar a vuelte <b>a lo largo de </b>la costa al norte. Estaba <b>lloviendo</b>. Hasta jueves, el PCH estaba cerrado a San Simeon porque de<b> avalanchas de lodo </b>causado por la <b>lluvias</b> en enero. Ahora el camino es abierto a Ragged Point. Pensé que <b>sería</b> bueno para visitar el <b>negocio</b> alli para <b>apoyarlos</b> un poco. <b> </b></p><p><b>Pedí</b> un hot dog (I refuse to write perro caliente!). El hombre detrás del <b>mostrador</b> dijo que no tenian hot dogs, mejor dicho que no tenian pan para hot dogs. Asi que yo dije que <b>no me importaba</b> si lo puso en un pan de hamburguesa. Dijo tienen pan de <b>centeno</b> tambien. Asi que comí un hot dog en pan de centeno en mi auto en el lluvia. </p><p>Tengo <b>mostaza</b> en mi camisa.<br /></p><p>--</p><p>Words I looked up<br /></p><p>- a lo largo de: along the<br />- lloviendo: raining<br />- avalanchas de lodo: mudslides<br />- lluvias: rains<br />- sería: would be<br />- negocio: business<br />- apoyar: to support<br />- Pedí: I asked<br />- mostrador: counter<br />- no me importaba: I didn't care <br />- centeno: rye <br />- mostaza: mustard</p><p>-- </p><p>What google wants me to say:</p><p></p><blockquote><i>El</i> sábado, <i>di un paseo por la costa hacia el norte</i>. Estaba lloviendo. Hasta <i>el</i> jueves, la PCH estaba cerrada <i>en</i> San Simeón <i>por</i> los <i>deslaves</i> <i>provocados</i> por las lluvias <i>de</i> enero. Ahora el camino está abierto a Ragged Point. Pensé que sería bueno visitar el negocio allí para apoyarlos un poco.<br /><br />Pedí un perrito caliente. El hombre detrás del mostrador dijo que no tenían perritos calientes, <i>o más bien que</i> no tenían <i>bollos</i> para perritos calientes. <i>Entonces</i> dije que no me importaba si <i>lo ponía</i> en un pan de hamburguesa. Dijo que también tienen centeno. Así que comí un hot dog con centeno en mi auto <i>bajo </i>la lluvia.<br /><br />Tengo mostaza en mi camisa.</blockquote>- provocados: caused/provoked?<br />- o más bien que: or rather that (or better that)<br />- bajo la lluvia: under the rain (instead of in the rain; I think since it wasn't me actually in the rain, I'd leave it)<p></p><p>I'm still struggling with tense, but today I really struggled with prepositions. </p><p>What is the difference between <i>entonces</i> y <i>así que</i>?<br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr/>
People who need feed people are the luckiest people.</div>AbbotOfUnreasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08484573287776114988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010810.post-57072716019109203592023-02-10T17:30:00.001-08:002023-02-10T17:30:00.194-08:00Me perdí dos dias<p> It looks like I missed two days. Sometimes there is little to write about.<br /><br />Yesterday, I had an appointment with the dentist. Or rather, I saw the dental hygienist. She cleaned my teeth and talked and talked and talked. I have no new cavities and she did not lecture me about flossing. I suppose that’s a win.<br /><br />I have begun chewing pens again. I used to chew pens a lot up until a year ago. For a while I was using a chew toy, but now my pens are getting ugly from my teeth. It is probably not good for my teeth, but I cannot help myself. <br /><br />I planted the flowers that I wrote about in an earlier entry. Usually, I plant succulents and they grow well enough without my interference. But these are real flowers and I suspect they will not survive my neglect. <br /><br />—</p><p>Vea como <b>me perdí</b> dos dias. A veces hay poco sobre lo que escribir.</p><p>Ayer, <b>tuve una cita</b> con el dentista. O <b>mejor dicho</b>, vi la hygienista dental. Limpió mis <b>dientes</b> y habló y habló y habló. No tengo <b>caries</b> y ella no me <b>sermoneó</b> sobre <b>usar hilo dental</b>. <b>Supongo</b> que eso es una victoria.<br /></p><p>He comenzado masticar <b>bolígrafos</b> de nuevo. Fui masticar bolígrafos muchos hasta <b>hace un año.</b> Para un vez, estuve usando un <b>juguete</b> de masticar, pero ahora mis bolígrafos son <b>volverse feo</b> de mis dientes. Probablemente, no sea bueno para mis dientes, pero no puedo ayudarme.</p><p>Planto las flores sobre las que esribido en una entrada anterior. Generalmente, planto succulentas y <b>crecen lo suficientemente bien </b>sin mi interferencia. Pero estas son flores reales y <b>sospecho</b> que ellas no <b>sobrevivirán my abandono.</b><br /></p><p>— <br /></p><p>Words I looked up:</p><p>- me perdí: I missed<br />- tuve una cita: i had an appointment<br />- mejor dicho: rather (better say)<br />- dientes: teeth<br />- caries: cavities<br />- usar hilo dental: flossing (using dental floss)<br />- supongo: I suppose<br />- sermoneó: lecture<br />- bolígrafo: pen<br />- hace un año: a year ago<br />- juguete: toy<br />- volverse feo: getting ugly<br />- crecen lo suficientemente bien: they grow well enough<br />- sospecho: I suspect<br />- <b>s</b>obrevivirán my abandono: (they) survive my neglect<br /></p><p>— </p><p>Google says: </p><blockquote><p><i>Parece que </i>me perdí dos días. A veces hay poco sobre lo que escribir.<br /><br />Ayer tuve cita con el dentista. O mejor dicho, vi a la higienista dental. <i>Me limpió</i> los dientes y habló y habló y habló. No tengo nuevas caries y ella no <i>me dio lecciones</i> sobre el uso del hilo dental. Supongo que eso es una victoria.<br /><i><br />He vuelto a masticar bolígrafos</i>. <i>Solía</i> masticar mucho los bolígrafos hasta hace un año. Durante un tiempo estuve usando un juguete para masticar, pero ahora mis bolígrafos <i>se están poniendo</i> feos por los dientes. Probablemente no sea bueno para mis dientes, pero no puedo <i>evitarlo</i>.<br /><br /><i>Planté</i> las flores sobre las que <i>escribí</i> en una entrada anterior. Por lo general, planto suculentas y crecen lo suficientemente bien sin mi interferencia. Pero estas son flores reales y sospecho que no sobrevivirán a mi abandono.<br /></p></blockquote><p>- parece que: looks like<br />- me limpió los dientes: washed me the teeth (instead of limpio mis dientes (washed my teeth)<br />- me dio lecciones: gave me lessons vs. no me sermoneo (sermonized). I think now I would write me dio sermones<br />- He vuelto a masticar bolígrafos: i have returned to chewing pens vs I have started chewing pens again<br />- solia: used to<br />- se están poniendo: they are getting (very similar?)<br />- evitario: avoid it (vs help it)<br />- Planté: I planted (vs what I thought was I plant, I guess)<br />- escribí: I wrote ( past tense is killing me)<br />- <br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr/>
People who need feed people are the luckiest people.</div>AbbotOfUnreasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08484573287776114988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010810.post-48835873644643154462023-02-07T18:51:00.003-08:002023-02-07T18:51:28.278-08:00Las medidas de los ojos<p> </p><p> I think I have the word for journal locked in. <br /><br />Today I had my eyes measured. In two weeks and a day, my right eye will have its lens replaced. Eight days later, the left eye will also have its lens replaced. I am very nearsighted. Today I learned that my eyes are approximately 31 mm long. That’s about eight more than normal and is why I am so nearsighted. I am very nervous. And also I wish it was done.<br /><br />I have been wearing glasses for a week because contacts can affect the shape of my eye and mess up the measurements. Tomorrow I can wear contacts again for a week. I see better with them, especially to my sides. <br /><br />Other than that, there is little to report except that the receptionist did not want to come to the surgery to hold my hand.<br /><br /></p><p>Creo que tengo la palabra por diario <b>encerrados en.</b></p><p>Hoy <b>me midieron</b> los ojos. En dos semanas y un dia, mi ojo derecho <b>tendrá</b> su <b>lente</b> <b>reemplazada</b>. Soy muy miope. Depués de ocho dias, mi ojo <b>izquierdo</b> tendrá su lente reemplazada tambien. Hoy he aprendido que mis ojos son approximadente treinta y uno mm largo. Eso es approximadente ocho mas que es tipico y es por que soy tan miope. Estoy muy nerviosa. Y tambien desearía que se <b>hiciera</b>.<br /></p><p>He estado <b>usando</b> <b>anteojos</b> por una semana porque lentes pueden afectar la <b>forma</b> de mi ojo y estropear las medidas. Mañana, puedo usar lentes <b>de nuevo</b> por una semana. Veo mas bueno con ellos, especialmente a mis lados.</p><p>Otro de eso, hay poco a reportar pero que la recepcionista <b>no queria</b> venir a la <b>cirugía</b> y tomar mi mano.<br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Words I looked up<br /></p><p>- encerrados en: locked in<br />- me midieron: had measured<br />- tendrá: had (I need to get this one memorized)<br />- lente: lens<br />- reemplazada: replaced<br />- miope: myopic/nearsighted (I thought it was myopico!)<br />- hizo/hiciera: was done<br />- usando: wearing/using<br />- anteojos: glasses<br />- forma: shape<br />- estropear: mess up/spoil<br />- medidas: measurements<br />- miden: (they) measure<br />- de nuevo: again<br />- no queria: did not want (i don't know why there's no accent!)<br />- cirugía: surgery<br />- izquierdo: left<br /><br /><br />How Google translated it: <br /><br /></p><blockquote>Creo que tengo la palabra para diario <b>encerrada</b>.<br /><br />Hoy me midieron los ojos. En dos semanas y un día, me <b>reemplazarán el cristalino del ojo derecho</b>. Ocho días después, también se reemplazará el <b>cristalino</b> (hmm) del ojo izquierdo. Soy muy miope. <b>Hoy aprendí</b> que mis ojos miden aproximadamente 31 mm <b>de</b> largo. Eso es <b>alrededor</b> de ocho más de lo normal y es por eso que soy tan miope. Estoy muy nervioso. Y también me <b>gustaría que se hiciera</b>.<br /><br />He estado usando anteojos durante una semana porque los <b>contactos</b> pueden afectar la forma de mi ojo y estropear las medidas. Mañana puedo usar lentes de contacto <b>nuevamente</b> por una semana. Veo <b>mejor</b> con ellos, especialmente a mis lados.<br /><br /><b>Aparte</b> de eso, hay poco que <b>informar excepto que</b> la recepcionista no quería venir a la <b>consulta</b> para tomar mi mano.</blockquote><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr/>
People who need feed people are the luckiest people.</div>AbbotOfUnreasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08484573287776114988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010810.post-88285300123232802542023-02-06T13:19:00.000-08:002023-02-06T13:19:12.813-08:00Es lunes<p>It's Monday. A journal is hard to maintain if you are boring. Yesterday, I went for a drive to try to kick my brain out of its rut, but I was only partially successful. And even that did not last. This is a hard year and I can't help but dwell on the anniversary coming in June. I must shake myself out of this.</p><p>I went to Lowe's to buy gardening supplies. I bought dirt for a planter that has sat empty for months in front of my house. Now it is is overflowing with dirt. I also bought flowers to plant in that dirt to be different from the vegetables planted in the planter next to it. </p><p>Today I have returned to work for the first time in nearly a week. The morning has many meetings and the afternoon has one. One advantage of living on the west coast is that many of my colleagues are away by two in the afternoon and I can work without interruption. But sometimes I crave interruption even when I complain about it. </p><p>Es lunes. Un diario es difícil mantenar si usted es <b>aburrido</b>. Ayer, <b>fui a dar una vuelta</b> para patear mi cerebro furea de su <b>rutina, </b>pero tuve solo parcialmente <b>exitoso</b>. Y <b>incluso</b> eso no <b>duró</b>. En un año dificil y no ayudo pero pensar en la anniversaria que viniendo en juno. <b>Debo sacudirme</b> de esto.</p><p>Fui a Lowe's a comprar <b>suminstros</b> de <b>jardinería</b>. Compré tierra para un <b>plantador</b> que ha sentado por meses en frente de mi casa. Ya es <b>desordante</b> con tierra. Tambien compré flores plantar en esa tierra ser diferente de las verduras plantadas en el plantador otra.</p><p>Hoy he regresar al trabajo por primera vez en <b>cerca de</b> una semana. La mañana tiene muchas reuniónes y la tarde tiene una. Una <b>ventaja</b> de vivir en la costa oeste es que muchos de mis <b>colegas </b>han salido a las dos de la tarde y puedo trabajar sin interrupciones. Pero a vez <b>pedo</b> interrupción incluso cuando me <b>quejarse</b>.<br /></p><p>Ugh, I think I did worse today than yesterday!</p><p>Words I looked up are in bold; words I changed based on Google translate
are in italics. </p><p>- aburrido: boring<br />- fui a dar una vuelta: went for a drive<br />- rutina: rut<br />- exitoso: successful (m)<br />- incluso: even <br />- no duró: did not last<br />- debo sacudirme: I must shake myself<br />- suminstros: supplies<br />- jardinería: gardening<br />- plantador: planter<br />- desordante: overflowing<br />- cerca de: nearly<br />- ventaja: advantage<br />- colegas: colleagues<br />- pedir: to crave<br />- quejarse: complain<br /><br />Here is how Google translated it (with my originals in parenthesis):</p><p></p><blockquote>Es lunes. Un diario es difícil de mantener si eres (less formal than I!) aburrido. Ayer, fui a dar una vuelta para tratar de sacar ("try to get" vs "to kick") mi cerebro de su rutina, pero solo tuve un éxito parcial (vs my solo parcialmente exitoso). E (Oh, I did "y") incluso eso no duró. Este es un año difícil y no puedo evitar detenerme ("avoid stopping me" vs"cannot help but think") en el aniversario que se avecina ("is coming" vs "viniendo") en junio. Debo sacudirme de esto.<br /><br />Fui a Lowe's a comprar suministros de jardinería. Compré tierra para una maceta ("flowerpot" vs my plantador "planter". Maybe that means like a person?) que estuvo vacía ("was empty" vs "has sat", I forgot the empty) durante meses frente a mi casa. Ahora está lleno ("full" vs "overflowing:) de suciedad. También compré flores para plantar en esa tierra para que fueran diferentes de las verduras plantadas en la maceta de al lado (vs me just trying "other").<br /><br />Hoy he vuelto ("I'm back" vs "have returned") al trabajo por primera vez en casi ("almost" vs "nearly") una semana. La mañana tiene muchas reuniones y la tarde una. Una ventaja de vivir en la costa oeste es que muchos de mis colegas están fuera ("are outside" vs "have exited") a las dos de la tarde y puedo trabajar sin interrupciones. Pero a veces anhelo ("I love" vs "I crave") la interrupción incluso cuando me quejo.</blockquote><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr/>
People who need feed people are the luckiest people.</div>AbbotOfUnreasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08484573287776114988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010810.post-86413464814088969692023-02-05T10:55:00.002-08:002023-02-05T10:57:27.250-08:00 El proyecto de español<p>Since my eyes are preventing me from painting, I need a project to keep me sane. Without a project, my brain goes to unhappy places, especially this year. So I have decided to spend the next little bit working on my Spanish. I’m very slowly reading One Hundred Years of Solitude and Winnie the Pooh in Spanish, so I’m getting practice translating <i>from</i> Spanish. To work on translating into Spanish, I thought I’d start a small journal. <br /><br />(Note to self: does Spanish do contractions other than del and al?)<br /><br />My plan is to write out the journal entry in English and then translate to Spanish. By writing in English first, I hope to limit my reliance on the words I am confident I already know. Otherwise, I might just quote songs, like ‘sé que no, sé que no, sé que solo; sé que ya no soy-oy-oy.’ If all goes well, after a month I will try to write an entry without starting in English.<br /><br />As I translate, I’ll keep track of the number of words I had to look up. Then I’ll give the original English to Google and see how far off I was and score that. My dream is for that score to slowly shrink until it’s a steady stream of Google being wrong as much as I!<br /><br />I have just returned from visiting with my father. It was his 80th birthday. I already know how to say ‘I would like to reserve a double room,’ but I didn’t need that for Maryland. On Friday, I joined my father’s poker game and his friends took $40 from me. Over all, it was a nice but melancholic trip. I am glad to be home where it is warmer.<br /><br /><br /><i>Como</i> mis ojos ver <i>impiden pintar</i>, necesito un proyecto mantenerme <b>cuerdo</b>. Sin un proyecto, mi <b>cerebro</b> va a lugares <b>infelices</b>, especialmente este año. <i>Así que</i> he decidido <i>pasar el siguiente rato </i>trabajando en mi español. Estoy leyendo muy <b>lentamente</b> Cien años de soledad y Winnie the Pooh en español, así que estoy <i>practicando la traducción del</i> español. Para trabajar en traducción al español, pensé en comenzar un <i>pequeño</i> diario. <br /><br />(Nota personal: el español hace contracciones <b>otro que</b> ‘del’ y ‘al’?)<br /><br />Mi <b>plan</b> es escribir la entrada del diaro en inglés y luego traducirla al español. <br /><i>Al escribir primero en inglés</i>, espero limitar mi <b>dependencia</b> en las <b>palabras</b> tengo confidencia que ya sé. De lo <b>contrario</b>, <b>podría citar</b> canciones, como ‘sé que no, sé que no, sé que solo; sé que ya no soy-oy-oy.’ Si todo va bien, <i>depués de un mes</i>, <b>intentaré</b> escribir un entrada sin comenzando en ingles.<br /><br />Mientras <b>traduzco</b>, <b>mantendré un registro</b> de la cantidad de palabras <i>que tuve que buscar.</i> Luego le <b>daré</b> el ingles original a Google y veré <b>qué tan lejos</b> y <b>anotaré</b> eso. Mi sueño es que ese <b>puntaje</b> se reduzca lentamente hasta que sea un <b>corriente constante</b> de que Google se <b>equivoque</b> <i>tanto como yo</i>.<br /><br /><b>Acabo de regresar</b> de visitar con mi padre. Era su ochenta cumpleaños. Ya sé como decir ‘Queciera reservar una habitación doble,’ pero no <b>necesitaba</b> eso para Maryland. En viernes, me <b>uní</b> al juego de <b>póquer</b> de mi padre y sus amigos <i>me quitaron</i> cuarenta dolares. En general, fue un viaje <b>lindo</b> pero <b>melancólico</b>. Me alegro de estar en casa donde esta más calor. <br /><br />Score<br /><br />Oof. Words I looked up are in bold; words I changed based on Google translate are in italics. Feel free to tell me in the comments if you disagree with Google or my choices! I haven't had a comment in ages.<br /><br />Words I looked up:<br />- Cuerdo: sane<br />- Cerebro: brain (probably could have guessed this one)<br />- Infelices: unhappy (ditto)<br />- Traductorio: translating<br />- Otro que: other than (this one is embarrassing)<br />- Plan: plan <br />- Dependencia: reliance <br />- Palabras: words<br />- De lo contrary: Otherwise<br />- Podría citar: I might quote <br />- Intentaré: I will try<br />- Traduzco: translating <br />- Mantendré un registro: I will keep track<br />- Daré: I will give<br />- Que tan legos: how far off<br />- Anotaré: I will note<br />- Puntaje: score<br />- Corriente constante: steady flow<br />- Equivoque: mistaken<br />- Acabo de regresar: I have just returned<br />- Fue: it was<br />- Necesitaba: Needed<br />- Uní: join<br />- Póquer: poker<br />- Tomó: they took<br />- Lindo: nice <br />- Melancolico: melancholy<br /><br />Words I didn’t realize I needed:<br />- impiden pintar: preventing to paint<br />- así que: So<br />- pasar el siguiente rato: To spend the next little bit (I had written “a pagar un poco vez”)<br />- practicando la traducción del: Practicing the translation of (I had written “recevando practica traductorio de”<br />- un pequeño diario: a small journal (I had written “un diario poco”)<br />- Al escribir primero en inglés: By writing in English first (I had written “Escribiendo en ingles primero”)<br />- depués de un mes: In a month (I had written “en un mes”)<br />- que tuve que: that I had to<br />- tanto como yo: As much as me (I had written “al igual de me”)<br />- me quitaron: took from me (I had written “tomó cuarenta dolares de me”)<br /><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr/>
People who need feed people are the luckiest people.</div>AbbotOfUnreasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08484573287776114988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010810.post-86033522090121134592023-01-21T16:42:00.003-08:002023-01-21T16:42:47.919-08:00Obligatory After-the-Rain Photos<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN_EF6Z1AHQJ7ddhpzl2xgsjVRIrIDKhXkw1ygCz7L2y6rJKzw3bHLVaEAtlMzHq59ZQHTm_vUJjwh1Feh8amywmQEEaWyB77HzFx08B7OaoOqfSa3DJ7j92kgYnctsIxeXRrwcnN0L44omQ1eSyArKYE8i1TuwOPeBWi-9XqMhI5QfTHT/s4032/2023-01-21%2012.53.22.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN_EF6Z1AHQJ7ddhpzl2xgsjVRIrIDKhXkw1ygCz7L2y6rJKzw3bHLVaEAtlMzHq59ZQHTm_vUJjwh1Feh8amywmQEEaWyB77HzFx08B7OaoOqfSa3DJ7j92kgYnctsIxeXRrwcnN0L44omQ1eSyArKYE8i1TuwOPeBWi-9XqMhI5QfTHT/s320/2023-01-21%2012.53.22.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p>Whenever it rains, everything turns super-green. And we've now had several weeks of loads of rain. We're at 121% of annual average rainfall as of today, and we're only halfway through rainy season. But for now, there's nothing further in the forecast.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4701WOBz0E1czDbsbasVWAiGRiRQPzOSDyH-OctKqYD9pkjfGXc2apkNaovfCLXRDCuASeKt6bKEiQGzSSOV1qHbTiBAKbgVyyllB035gj62QQbjayGJ-1BspVoBNSPfJQrYbilNZt6KQhY38HRRL-QlS0IwWcfWHF7hEBHPOv6TWs25V/s4032/2023-01-21%2013.19.20.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4701WOBz0E1czDbsbasVWAiGRiRQPzOSDyH-OctKqYD9pkjfGXc2apkNaovfCLXRDCuASeKt6bKEiQGzSSOV1qHbTiBAKbgVyyllB035gj62QQbjayGJ-1BspVoBNSPfJQrYbilNZt6KQhY38HRRL-QlS0IwWcfWHF7hEBHPOv6TWs25V/s320/2023-01-21%2013.19.20.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>This is Halcon Road in Atascadero, near the end where it attaches to Rocky Canyon Road. For most of the year, this stretch of the Salinas River appears completely dry (at least to the naked eye), and for most years, this road goes straight across the river with only some culverts to provide a route for the water. </p><p>This year the water didn't want to queue properly to get through the culverts and just washed the entire road out. I think this probably happens once every five or so years, and they've decided it's cheaper to just build up a new gravel road every so often instead of building a bridge. <br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr/>
People who need feed people are the luckiest people.</div>AbbotOfUnreasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08484573287776114988noreply@blogger.com0