We had an opportunity to go on a hike without the seven year old so we biased for elevation that he would not enjoy. It was a beautiful day to be in the shade of a northern California redwood forest along a creek.
A five and a quarter mile (eight and a half kilometer), 1207 foot (368 meter) elevation walk over one and three quarters hours in California. About 10400 steps.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@gravely/107797954684040653
gravely (@gravely@mastodon.social)getting a lot of “infosec discourse” vibes from the shadows on the cave wall this morning as the sun rises so I’m wagging my finger in the direction of the entrance to the cave ⃔ ☝🏼⃕MastodonTrying to find a gd post I know I made and it isn’t this one or the nonsense I boosted moments ago and I’m giving up on finding what I wanted but anyway, imho, this finger wag should be a standard ligature or whatever.
My mom has never acknowledged the times I used to sneak out of the house to do crimes. I’m pretty sure she knew or at least knows now (thanks, Sis) but she sure doesn’t post about it. Respect.
It was fun how everyone rallied around Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains" yesterday. Someone cool in chat suggested Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore’s “Vintage Season” ( https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20220847) as another great story-about-a-house and I enjoyed it last night.
Vintage SeasonEverybody seemed to want the old house during May—and seemed willing to pay fantastic prices for the privilege. Strange tourists they were, too. The Café Society of another time. The 1992 American film Timescape, also titled Grand Tour: Disaster in Time, was loosely based on Vintage Season, though with a happy ending substituted for the somber conclusion of Catherine L. Moore's original.--Wikipedia.fadedpage.comTWCSR reminded me of PKD’s Autofac ( https://www.philipdick.com/mirror/websites/pkdweb/short_stories/Autofac.htm), which made for a pretty good if only kinda sorta related (as per) episode of Electric Dreams ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6902176/), which I really wish had expanded into a modern day Amazing Stories. Neither, unfortunately, are quite old enough to be able to share directly.
AUTOFACphilipdick.com
After returning home to see if family was grounding, Tara invests in believing that seasons are matters of projection and will rather than passive to the abstraction and metaphysics of calendars. Who is to say? I enjoyed most of this section in two sittings and was bummed when that era was exhausted and moved past, albeit with a bit of unexpected plot and a suspenseful crises left somewhat open ended, as with the encounter with the coin seller couple in Book I. I wondered if I was in on a Patricia Lockwood style joke after when Tara then returned to the roman coin from Book I and more-than-dwelled on thinkin’ about the Roman Empire, as one does, for a while. Probably not, but haha, what if? The cliffhanger has me looking forward to Book III but the meat of the story is simply engaging with the idea that there isn’t much space between those days when maybe a bit of petrichor or surprise plant growth makes you think out of time, of a day in a season opposite from the one you are in. Delightful.