Puttering around on errands today, I saw a bumper sticker that read, “186,000 miles per second. It’s not just a good idea, it’s the LAW.” On the right side was a little picture of Einstein.
Only in Los Alamos, part 2
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Daily Archives: April 6, 2007
What Has it Gots In Its Pocketses?
Today I was cleaning out the pockets of the shorts I’ve been wearing. Here’s what I had:
$2.05 in small change (including some nickels that seem to be stamped wrong).
1 padlock key
1 California Angels bottle opener key ring with a miata key and a padlock key.
1 free-range Miata key
4 receipts crumpled to illegibility
1 battered Sony Ericsson mobile phone
1 Milk bone dog biscuit
1 Wallet with the usual stuff, including phone chips.
Of course, it’s the dog biscuit that got me typing. All but the wallet were in the front right pocket, as the left pocket has nothing but a gaping hole.
In the Land of Enchantment
It was a good drive today, crossing the desert the easy way (Interstate), with only the occasional construction slowdown to distract my thoughts. Unfortunately, not much of what I thought about will be of interest until it finds it way into stories. So it goes.
There is this, though. If I had a place in Gallup that sold Green Chile Cheeseburgers, I would put up a billboard right at the border that said, “Welcome home! Your Green Chile Cheeseburger is waiting for you at Jer’s Burgerville. Turn right at exit 20.” It would be a valuable service to those of us with bad memories for places but good memories for flavors. I ended up at Blake’s in Grants. I ordered the Lottaburger and knew I was back in civilization when the girl asked “you want green chile on that?” It was OK, but far from a religious experience.
Right now I’m taking a little road break in a place with WiFi, then I will head on to the folks’ place. Hopefully I can ignore the Internet long enough there to get some of my ideas into more concrete form.