I figured out how to avoid spending too much time on Facebook. The trick is to post something there so seemingly ill-advised that you avoid looking at the site for a week or so. I think I did that. I think it is going to be about a week.
I used to get bad colds after marathons. Now I get like this.
It was a great marathon. San Luis Obispo, a course that started at the high school, wound through town, then south and east, then back again. Hills, but if it had been a baseball stadium you would have had to say it played fair. It was a TNT event. Hills and forcasted heat had everyone running carefully, and as a result everyone did well, including me. It was a fun weekend besides, victory party at the Madonna Inn. Clouds convinced me to skip the coast road home, but 101 is hardly the ugly superhighway alternative, especially after a mostly rainy April.
I brought the good camera, but did not take too many pictures. I need to make myself take more pictures. I worry about taking pictures of people. I worry that they will not want me to. I am a writer who does not write journalism, either/also. I wonder what this site would be like if I had any readers besides you all.
Mission San Miguel is still there, and still old. They built a new community center church building structure next to the mission, and they did a nice job with that. It fits with the old without looking like stagecraft. Someday I will pull off the road there and get some real pictures.
Almost so I would be reminded I did not visit, last night I turned on my TV to images of Mission San Juan Bautista from the movie Vertigo. Tivo got me the movie and I think I will actually watch it at some point. The way he kisses her in the stables across from the mission, and the way she does not want to be kissed, is harrowing. Her makeup all over his face before the cut.
Hope I get to the valley this summer. Really want to take some good pictures. Sunset, or early morning. Either way, the open space preserves for sure, and down to San Juan Bautista in person, maybe out to the Pinnacles. It is an 8GB memory card. There need to be more interesting reasons why it is always more empty than full.
Last week they broke ground in Santa Clara on the new Forty Niners stadium. Made me wonder if they have turned over any dirt for the new Apple campus in Cupertino yet. Wonder if dad will go to a game, when the 49ers start playing down here. He has seen games at Kezar and Candlestick, seems like you would have to go three for three. It is going to be hideously expensive though.
Quiet, and too warm for April. Looking forward to the weekend, after only one day back from the last one. Great marathon, but nothing left from that, or something.
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