New guy & Jo. 

New guy comes home. 

Jo just called. She has the New Guy in the car with her after delays, and is headed home from Kent with him. I can hardly wait. :)

She found him yesterday on her lunch hour, calling me from the animal shelter to tell me about him, and to make sure it was okay with me.

D'uh.

Because she had a doctor appointment yesterday afternoon, and had no carrier with her, he had to spend another night in Kent and get picked up today.

She got home after her doctor appointment quite revved, and we spent much of the evening talking about him and getting things ready.

I'm ready.

:)

The Station Agent

"It's really funny how people see me and treat me, since I'm really just a simple, boring person. So says Finbar McBride, the hero of 'The Station Agent.' Nothing in life interests him more than trains. Model trains, real trains, books about trains. He likes trains." (Roger Ebert)

For some reason, I seem to be enjoying this movie.

:)

I was off to Bellevue this morning, to pick up some kitty pictures at Kathryn's house. A coworker of hers is parting with a pair. Kathryn turned out to be home, so we got to visit for a bit before she had to leave.

From there, I went to the nearby labyrinth at Bellevue Unity Church. I often try to have a meditative theme for a labyrinth walk, and often it is some episode or period of my life that seems unresolved.

Recently I had watched the movie Gardens of Stone, and I am now about halfway through the book of the same title by Nicholas Proffitt.The central story is set at Fort Myer, Virginia, and Arlington Cemetary. I was stationed there myself shortly after the peroiod of the story, and many scenes and locations were familiar, so in today's labyrinth walk, I explored memories and emotional baggage from my time at Fort Myer. It ended up being probably the most inconclusive labyrinth walk I have done yet.

But it was still a good walk, and may still have been a good choice of themes. I doubt anything else could have succeeded with Fort Myer, the Vietnam war, and the whole era, so much on my mind.

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Where I'm at

Where I'm at

I'm sitting on the beach north of Edmonds, listening to the waves washing against the gravel and the seagulls circling overhead.

Here's where the car is, I'm a bit further west: Click here

That link will allow you to see zoomable maps and satellite images of where I am. Google maps can also be recentered by dragging. I expect to have lots of fun with them.

This entry was an edited version of a saved message on my phone, with the latitude and longitude transcribed from my GPS. As posted, it was not a clickable URL, since that doesn't work when posting by phone. I fixed that & a typo after I got home.

Another camera & Itchy

Another camera & Itchy

Now we try out the $2.66 camera from ebay.



This is a little more substantial,and is more standalone: you take the pictures with the camera by itself, then connect to the phone to transfer to the phone's memory.



This camera is substantially larger than the dongle camera itself, but with the dongle's three foot cord, they end up being rather comparable in pocket bulk.



Neither is worth much as a camera, but both together didn't cost much, and the ability to take pictures and almost immediately email them from the phone makes up for the shortcomings.



The picture of Itchy. She's a fine dog.