1. Morning Walk

    Figure 1. A map of San Francisco, California. The path of a four and a half mile (seven and a half kilometer) walk is indicated. About 9200 steps and 420 feet (128 meters) elevation over one and a quarter hours.
  2. Ah, jeeze, this listener-supported streaming rock station doesn’t erase the rock music that came out between my junior year in high school when music “went to shit” and my junior year in college when I started listening to listener-support streaming stations and they weren’t playing “that new stuff”

  3. Morning Walk

    Figure 1. A map of San Francisco, California. The path of a four and a quarter mile (seven kilometer) walk is indicated. About 8700 steps and 728 feet (222 meters) elevation over one and a quarter hours.
  4. Morning Walk

    Figure 1. A map of San Francisco, California. The path of a one and a half mile (two and a quarter kilometer) walk is indicated. About 2800 steps and 59 feet (18 meters) elevation over half an hour.
  5. Morning Walk

    Figure 1. A map of San Francisco, California. The path of a six and three quarters mile (10 and three quarters kilometer) walk is indicated. About 13400 steps and 909 feet (277 meters) elevation over two hours, (one and three quarters hours moving).
  6. Afternoon Walk

    Figure 1. A map of Larkspur, California. The path of a zero and three quarters mile (one and a quarter kilometer) walk is indicated. About 1400 steps and 436 feet (133 meters) elevation over one hour, (a quarter hour moving).
  7. The New York Trilogy was on the reading list for a Detective Fiction course I took in college (lovely course!) and, because it’s so great, I’m sure I don’t have that copy on my shelf anymore because I foisted it on someone with "you have to read this” after one of the re-readings I’d given it since then.

    RIP Paul Auster.

    Previously: https://mastodon.social/@gravely/111047297740981549

    gravely (@gravely@mastodon.social)Telling a friend about 4, 3, 2, 1 over dinner, I said it was romantic and lovely, if you didn't mind new yorkers in love with new york, ellis island through the 60s, the anti-war movement, and all that shit we've heard so much about, which I did not mind. Later, while my kid was eating pizza and getting sauce two inches up both cheeks, I asked him to fold it in half and the guy at the next table who'd overheard me laughed and said "I'm from New York and it's really like all of that, you know”Mastodon (opens in a new tab)
    photograph of the Paul Auster books on my shelf, which are mostly heavily sun-faded Penguin paperbacks with a few hardbacks intermingled, including:Oracle NightMr. VertigoMan in the DarkThe Invention of SolitudeIn the Country of Last ThingsLeviathanThe Music of ChanceinvisibleThe Book of IllusionsHand to Mouth4 3 2 1
    Figure 1. photograph of the Paul Auster books on my shelf, which are mostly heavily sun-faded Penguin paperbacks with a few hardbacks intermingled, including:Oracle NightMr. VertigoMan in the DarkThe Invention of SolitudeIn the Country of Last ThingsLeviathanThe Music of ChanceinvisibleThe Book of IllusionsHand to Mouth4 3 2 1.
  8. Morning Walk

    Figure 1. A map of San Francisco, California. The path of a four mile (six and a half kilometer) walk is indicated. About 8100 steps and 482 feet (147 meters) elevation over four and a half hours, (one and a half hours moving).
  9. Bored, looking at property listings for decorating ideas while holding a Geiger counter modified to detect and measure the wrongness of refrigerator door hinge swing and handing pointed at the screen the entire time

Pizza Slow (high quality)

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