Amtrak, Oceanside to Union Station.
Should be a nice quick ride, only two hours. Meant to bring a book or pick up a newspaper; forgot and didn’t have change. Damn the cash society anyway — that plus the cost of putting a card reader in a newspaper kiosk.
I’ve got a bunch of video podcasts I haven’t seen yet, waiting on the iPod, not to mention this plinker, and I picked up a ubiquitous pad of graph paper. Never do have much time lately to just sit and mull over my own thoughts.
“It’s the kind of place that makes a bum feel like a king; and it makes a king feel like some nutty, koo-koo superking…” — Tony Bennett, “Capital City”
Current obsession is creating some sort of workable circuit out of a 74HC795 bit shift and PS2501-4 4-channel optocoupler. With optional blinkenlights to indicate that it works.
Looks to me like a brown-habit nun, on a cellphone.
Fullerton. About ten minutes late.
Seems like it would be a mite cold to be surfing but of course there are people out at San Clemente. Would be interesting to have a beachfront house that comes with a train that passes in front, most likely “…so often you won’t even notice.”
Decided I don’t really need to work on the flash drive, just need to save to it before I wander off to another machine. Should copy a bunch of zombie movies to one of the spare flash cards just for grins.
I’m pretty sure I have a spare Zippo somewhere. I should build a Zippo flash drive container. I’m fairly certain I have a spare Zippo somewhere.
Really do have a short attention span, though.