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Illinois grabbag of notes

4/2/09

7:35 pM

Retreated to my room. A pair of Willie Nelson look-a-likes struck up a
conversation. Good for them. But I am not into it. Passing through
Yorba Linda. Now it is dark. The first one, straw cowboy hat and
enormous silver belt buckle (more than half as wide as his waist) put
a CD from a CD wallet into a CD player, took off his hat, put on
headphones, put his hat back, threw away his empty Bud, and burped as
he walked past me on his way back to sit down. Likes riding the train,
apparently. He and the other Willie think Amtrak employees are mean.
No. 1, by way of explaining what he was listening too (country),
overed the he didn't download music, didn't even have computer,
quipped that he five thousand friends on Facebook. Oh well. Good for
him.

7:22 PM

In the lounge car to be frank pretty grossed by burping drunk men in
front of me and behind.

And now that I am set to write something, can't think of anything.
7:30 PM. Something will come to me. The burping again. I am out of
here.

--
David
www.schons.net

Dionica

Dinner last night was two intially very ugly women across from me and
the guy with the Casey Jones hat next to me. (Hat doffed for dinner.)
He didn't say much. Turned out the women were mother and daughter.
Mother's 94 and name Dionica. I hope got that spelling right. Going
back to Albuquerque
for a last visit from Riverside, California where the daughter lives
and the mother is in a nursing home.

We all had shown up at the dining car for our 8:15 seating
reservation, but they weren't ready, and the stewart tried to send the
women back. They came when they did because the train was stopped so
Dionica'd have a chance.

The daughter was way beyond haggered, was missing front teeth. But
Dionica with her still red hair, looked quite content.

--
David
www.schons.net

Money transfer to lala land

tomas_bernice_leo, originally uploaded by David2004.

I thought I had lost Dorothea's inheritance. She had deposited check. I went to ING Direct to move. Happened to see a $19 charge in the checking account for a returned check. Wasn't adding up for sure. But, I was looking, and the money was nowhere to be found. Turns out she put it in savings, and we've got ING Direct set up to take from checking when we request a transfer. Oops.

But that gave new meaning to this picture, as in who's in the picture and their expressions. Thomas, Bernice, Leo. They're who the money came from, and they're all dead, and it is like they are wordlessly saying, "Dude,...."

Doinking around

Doinking around, a la OCD. I have discovered a todo Google gadget that
I rather like, that I can see at work. So, I sez to myself, if I were
to see it on the PDA as well, I'd have complete coverage. But nooo,
not that simple. Doesn't show in mobile iGoogle. Than, ah ha, the
gadget is embeddable. I created a subdomain and page on
schons.net--but the gadget isn't visible. On Madeline's iTouch?
Visible. Found and installed Iris browser. (Wasn't that easy.) instant
presto! I can now use the organizetodo gadget on my pda.

--
David
www.schons.net

Which direction time?

Crisp, subzero blue-sky February morning. Waiting for bus.

At 5th and Cedar looking north, bus roofs at the bottom of the hill in
the near distance, towards Metro State, in the far distance, on crest
of the Mississippi River valley, realizing that none of the modern
buildings or facades in the vista were present in the streetcar days,
I turn around to see the 1890's Landmark Center and the 1919 Hamm
Buikding.

--
David
www.schons.net

Birthday 50

So, it comes to this--so many candles, it sets off the smoke alarm. (Ah, well, it should have, but didn't.)