Mini Walkabout
Feb. 5th, 2007 11:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebToday I decided to walk to the store from work, buy a few things, and then take the bus home. I took a random route to the store and passed through areas I'd never seen before.
For example, the street I think of as that street with the awesome rose garden is a dead end. Normally I just look down the street at the flowers as I'm going by. This time I noticed another sign on the street: "Not a through street." And underneath that a smaller sign: "Except bicycles and pedestrians." What a lovely smaller sign!
And alluring. I took that street through. The part that went through for only bicycles and pedestrians turned out to be a narrow wooden bridge across a creek.
I saw lots of houses that all looked very different from each other, as if each owner designed his own property just as he wanted to, regardless of what the neighbors did. It was like seeing one miniature kingdom after another. I enjoyed it.
I saw a brick path winding through the land attached to some small medical facility. Couldn't resist walking on it.
I saw my favorite concrete bridge that's got walls six feet high with circular holes in it.
Overall, I declare it a lovely walk and a good idea. (The shopping and bus-catching parts of the plan also worked well, but were less interesting.)
Financial advice of the day - from Manage your Finances like a Professional Gambler II: Know When to Fold ‘Em at Get Rich Slowly: If you have anything that you would not buy now at its current value, sell it. That applies to everything: books, clothes, furniture, stocks. That's interesting advice, and I think I like it although I'm not currently following it. I have very little experience selling things and probably none selling things for their fair value.
For example, the street I think of as that street with the awesome rose garden is a dead end. Normally I just look down the street at the flowers as I'm going by. This time I noticed another sign on the street: "Not a through street." And underneath that a smaller sign: "Except bicycles and pedestrians." What a lovely smaller sign!
And alluring. I took that street through. The part that went through for only bicycles and pedestrians turned out to be a narrow wooden bridge across a creek.
I saw lots of houses that all looked very different from each other, as if each owner designed his own property just as he wanted to, regardless of what the neighbors did. It was like seeing one miniature kingdom after another. I enjoyed it.
I saw a brick path winding through the land attached to some small medical facility. Couldn't resist walking on it.
I saw my favorite concrete bridge that's got walls six feet high with circular holes in it.
Overall, I declare it a lovely walk and a good idea. (The shopping and bus-catching parts of the plan also worked well, but were less interesting.)
Financial advice of the day - from Manage your Finances like a Professional Gambler II: Know When to Fold ‘Em at Get Rich Slowly: If you have anything that you would not buy now at its current value, sell it. That applies to everything: books, clothes, furniture, stocks. That's interesting advice, and I think I like it although I'm not currently following it. I have very little experience selling things and probably none selling things for their fair value.