The Tower
25-Sage
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02-Town
Here they sat at a social breakfast table–all of the same calling, all of kindred tastes–looking round as sheepishly at each other as though they had never been out of sight of some sheepfold among the Green Mountains.
Chapter 5: Breakfast – Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Coffee drinking in the morning is what makes getting up in the morning such a pleasure, makes life worth living. And coffee gets one moving, and you know: moving is good for you.
05-Clos
Nothing unusual this morning – unlike last month when the shirtless urban wanderer, Kiltman, appeared here.
Or more recently when the bookstore featured a new cat.
July
Thump
meetup.com/Bay-Area-Big-Thumpers-Dual-Sport-Group
Saturday Morning Santa Cruz
Made it there just in time to see everyone take off without me.
But, I’ve my own group: Electric Future
Note: The above movie runs fine in Chrome, a bit problematic in Safari, and for some reason in FireFox only the video shows up, without the audio/sound. On my iPad it does not run at all!
P.S. It’s a good thing I didn’t go. While riding along a dirt backroad, ignoring signs, the group had an irate landowner pull a gun on them – a situation that tied up the excursion for hours and got the police involved.
31-Sura
Life is so unfair. He wasn’t on the offense; his job was defense, not to catch the ball. But, he was playing the game. And what difference would possession make?
So the missed catch split his life, a mortal caesura so to speak, his life before and after the unexpected happening.
11-Heel
The wheel was discovered around 5000 years ago.
During the age of wagons & chariots, it may have never occurred to anyone that putting two wheels in line with each other would be a practical thing.
But finally in 1817 the bicycle was invented, and that idea led to the motorcycle, and doing backflips:
What invention of the past could use a new twist today?
10-Drop
-kick me, Jesus …
With 3 seconds left in the fourth quarter and his team down 16-17, Ravens (#9) kicker Justin Tucker swung his leg with as much power as he could and broke the record for the longest field goal in league history, a 66-yarder that bounced off the crossbar and into the net.