Did some gasoline therapy after dinner. Drove down through the center of town and back up. Still surprises me how much this town has changed. I could bemoan the loss of the town that I loved. But that misses the mark. It’s nostalgia. The pain of knowledge. What I miss is all the opportunities for …
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Boredriving
When you get so goddamned bored that you drive around and look at your old workplaces. I guess reliving past trauma puts current trauma into perspective.
Three Weak Ends
Every year, no matter what job I have, I make every attempt to take the entire week of Thanksgiving off. It costs 3 days of PTO (if the job has it, which my current one does), and I get an entire week off. You’d think this was great and wonderful and is an entire week …
The Truth Is Out There
Last night’s foggy drive made me worry that a cryptid would attack out of nowhere and snatch me from my car, and that Mulder and Scully would have to investigate which sequence of mundane events occurred to explain what really happened. MULDER: His browser history shows he’s made 253 recent visits to Fortean Times, and the …
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Driving around tonight in the fog makes me realize that I miss weather. It’s always so hot and dry and boring here in Austin. Give me weather, dammit. Variable weather. Second-guessing weather. “Do I need a coat, an umbrella, or cargo shorts?” weather. It’s what I miss about living in my mid-latitude home state, where …