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| Re: Epic, continued [message #50372 is a reply to message #50371 ] |
Tue, 19 June 2012 22:32   |
EMoon
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Nooooo.....(wail of sympathy.) I feel for you. Unfortunately, that doesn't fix Wolfgang. I do hope Wolfgang is quickly fixable. And thereafter behaves well for at least five years.
Yes, on the always taking knitting. I've discovered that not taking knitting (like not taking the binocs and camera when walking out on the land) always leads to trouble.
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| Re: Epic, continued [message #50374 is a reply to message #50371 ] |
Wed, 20 June 2012 01:32 |
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 Kathy_S
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Live in a city, where everything is walking distance anyway, and there are things like buses [sic], trains and taxis.
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Surely you jest. I live in a city, the so-called 11th largest in the U.S.
Bus downtown for a cultural event in the evening? Forget it, unless you are willing to leave by intermission. Even the 4th of July fireworks are no longer accessible, as the last bus leaves downtown well before dark.
Trains? Three days a week you can leave for Chicago at 4:57 a.m. or for points east at midnight, though of course you can't get a bus to the station at those times. The other days there's a Chicago train at 6 a.m. That's it. The street cars have been gone since 1953.
I'm especially bitter, since, as one of those visually impaired people everyone agrees would be lethal at 50 miles an hour, I prudently found a house less than 2 blocks from a bus stop, only to have the city slash that route along with half the others in town. It's a darned good thing I wasn't relying on more than feet to get to work.
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| Re: Epic, continued [message #50376 is a reply to message #50371 ] |
Wed, 20 June 2012 16:50 |
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equus_peduus
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Squee on Cav King Charles puppies. So much cuteness should be illegal (but I'm glad it's not).
Argh on Wolfgang's problems. Hopefully they figure it out, really, this time.
And I now live in an old European city where people seem to think that taking the metro one stop is perfectly reasonable (it runs at pretty decent times, extended hours when something major is going on, and runs pretty frequently) but I learned when there was a fire alarm at our stop and had to walk... it takes less than 20 minutes to get to almost all the interesting things downtown. Of course, it's very easy to *get lost* downtown, what with all the twisty old-French-city streets that end up going in a different direction than the one it started in, and are all narrow and cobblestony besides, so one could conceivably end up walking for two hours when one is just trying to find a chocolate shop that's open (ask me how I know...) but *getting* to downtown has several options that don't require cars.
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| Re: Epic, continued [message #50381 is a reply to message #50371 ] |
Wed, 20 June 2012 21:47 |
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Oh noooooo, Wolfgang! I started reading this entry with such hope! And nooooo!
Ugh. I hope they get this sorted out soon. At least it wasn't working IMMEDIATELY. It could have worked all the way home and then the next morning . . . Gah. I hate car trouble!
Smooshes!
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| Re: Epic, continued [message #50396 is a reply to message #50372 ] |
Thu, 21 June 2012 18:41 |
Katsheare
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| EMoon wrote on Wed, 20 June 2012 03:32 |
Yes, on the always taking knitting. I've discovered that not taking knitting (like not taking the binocs and camera when walking out on the land) always leads to trouble.
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Amen to all of the above. I mean, the worst that can happen is that you don't get to knit (or see anything photographable or too far away to make out what it is) and you have to carry something that's probably fairly transportable. But at the same time, I can understand wanting the whole 'Wolfgang works' to be true, so you don't jinx it by not being prepared in case he doesn't.
I imagine the preschoolers loved all the car bits strewn everywhere. Mine would...
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