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Without an alarm, I jolted awake at 7:30AM. I was all over the place this morning. Drove to work to get my check, went to Target,
dropped off my movies, went to Stanley's, and was able to get most of my busywork done by 10:00AM. A quick shower and some puttering
later... I was out the door by about 11:30AM.
I had originally planned on getting some stuff done around the house, but ultimately decided I needed to go on a walk. And head to
Barnes and Nobles for some shopping, over at Webster Place.
Normally, I'd drive. Or ride my bike. But today, I wanted to walk and snap a few pictures. I packed my camera up, grabbed some extra
batteries (just in case) and started walking down Cortland.
I stopped at this, and began thinking about galleries and displays. If it has a frame, what's to say it's not art?
I'm not sure what this means, or why it's here. But someone went to the trouble of climbing up on this bridge to scrawl this
word in a spot where many people would not see it.
There are some metalshops along Cortland, and I honestly don't know what goes on inside. Every once in a while, I see some monstrous
vehicle slowly make its way across the street around here. To this day, I'm unsure what those vehicles to. They're like zambonis, but
two to three times as tall.
All around the area, there are a smattering of sculptures and plaques. I'm unclear if they're meant to be for the city and represnt
the factories... or if they're meant for the factories, and were placed here by the city.
I was going to come back and get the details on this one... but ended up taking another way home. This is... I dunno. Some kind of micrometer?
This is a small pathway that cuts behind a lot of the buildings/stores in this area. Often, it's a great shortcut to take if you want to avoid
the traffic on the main roads. I forget what the street is actually called (Magnolia?).
There's nothing really of interest here, but I still felt like taking a picture, just so you could get a sense of what this stretch of
road is like. It's either dead quiet, or there's a car driving through. And if there's a car, 9 times out of 10 it's going as fast as it can.
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I spent a good few hours browsing for things, and ended up getting a crapload of stuff. I'm looking forward to getting into more of a reading mode again. I got a good mix of things - fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and some
really interesting DVD's.
On the way back, I got a Mocha from Starbucks. I must confess, I had this huge HUGE thing for their mochas back when I as in grad school.
I don't go to Starbucks very often, but the rare times that I do... if I'm indulging, I'll get a mocha.
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