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bunnyhugger's parents. How about my parents? There's a little bit of news there. The one that's going to be dominating their late October: they're moving. It turns out that, in South Carolina, the builders of a new apartment complex give you about two years and then raise the rent enough that it's cheaper to pack up everything and move over to the new apartment complex that opened since the last one did. Anyway I'm glad there isn't a housing bubble and that it isn't going to destroy the economy as soon as some algorithm at Chase Banking Products LLC hiccoughs.
On a more alarming note, my father's heart is doing a thingy and the doctor wants him in for a procedure. He's had this sort of procedure before and it went fine so I'm sure it's going to be fine now that he's eighty years old too. As traditional, he's having this heart procedure two days before my birthday because for some reason my parents always have procedures on their hearts or on their brains right around my birthday. I don't know what this signifies. Anyway I'm taking my lead from him and from my mother, the former nurse, who both see this as eh, an annoying long day at the hospital but so what.
Finishing off that walk, now, Christmas day night:
Christmas tree downtown that's maybe had a bit too much eggnog and is tipping away from the road.
But from farther away --- and over the river --- it looks much more approximately straight. They repainted the old Coca-Cola sign there so the town could look more authentically like itself.
Trees on campus, showing off the colors.
The clocks on campus. You might dimly remember that Easter when I walked by these clocks were nowhere near the correct time. Well, according to my camera, this picture was taken at 6:27 so ... uh ... it's possible I never took my camera off Daylight Saving Time. Hm. Sunset would be a little after 5 pm, so it should be civil twilight if it's 5:30, but all these pictures sure look night or at least astronomical twilight. Well, no way of knowing.
Oh, hey, here's that album cover you were looking for.
And here's the cover for your Christmas album.
Trivia: Immanuel Kant wrote three papers about earthquakes in the aftermath of the Lisbon disaster of 1755.Source: The Culture of Calamity: Disaster and the Making of Modern America, Kevin Rozario.
Currently Reading: Lost Popeye Zine Volume 43: The Cheerful Earful Club, Tom Sims, Bela Zaboly. Editor Stephanie Noelle. Sims and Zaboly really overestimating here how delightful was re-casting the comic strip as ``Popeye keeps a college football team'' together.
