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This is much funnier when you imagine the part of me being played by Larry David.
Monday morning, I got off my bus and walked to the ferry terminal to await my boat. I reached the double glass doors and when I stepped inside, saw that the corridor was being blocked by a few people. I wanted to get by them and stand on the other wall, where I wouldn't be blocking the exit. So I said "excuse me" and moved past. One guy I passed kind of jammed his elbow into me as I went, but I thought whatever, it's crowded. I stood by the other wall and waited to walk on.
So, we're all walking on to the boat and going to find seats or whatever. The guy who elbowed me came up next to me, going, "Excuse me, miss" so I looked at him. He was an older guy with a beard and glasses.
"I would appreciate it if you would have said excuse me when you walked by me. You bumped my arm."
"I did say excuse me," I said.
"No, you did not."
"Yes, I did."
At this point I noticed he's wearing A HEARING AID.
"No, you did not," he said again.
"I did," I said. What else could I say? I decided this conversation was now over and went past him to find a seat up front. I was a little shaken -- why was this guy so fucking upset that his arm was nudged by a woman half his size? Are his bones hollow?
Later I thought about it and realized this is the shit Larry David is always putting into his show, except if I were him, I probably would have pointed out to the guy that maybe, just maybe, he did not hear me saying "excuse me." And then I would have hung on to my argument like a pit bull until f-bombs were dropped.
Then later on I would have run into the guy again and he would have exacted his revenge on me or something.
I love that show.
The end.
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I read tonight that the first cruise ship of the season arrived in Juneau, Alaska on Wednesday. It was in a small article on the Juneau Empire website. Below the story, there was a place for reader comments -- ALL of them locals griping about how annoying the tourists are and the ships and the seaplanes and the gift shops and how companies come into town for the season and "take" money out of Juneau. Wah wah, I'm stayin away from downtown all summer long! etc. Of course there were only twelve comments total. I would have to assume that most residents of the capital understand that since they live in an economy that is essentially fueled by tourism, if those dollars went away, so would half the jobs and businesses. Would they rather be Fairbanks? I mean sure, I bitched about the slowly-shuffling looky-loos on Powell Street in SF, but I still understood that the city needed these people. I love Juneau and can't wait to go give them some more of my money in the near future. IN OTHER NEWS, we did a bunch of yardworky stuff today. I scattered a bunch of wildflower seeds in a little plot by the deck, planted my rosemary bush in the ground, and pulled a great many weeds. Our lawn is completely invaded by moss and I don't know if we should kill it or leave it. I'm leaning toward leave it, unless it destroys the grass. The grass isn't looking too happy. But then Brian cut it way too short last weekend. Tomorrow we're going to Target to find deck furniture of some sort. Tags: juneau
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So those boots I wore ten days ago, the ones I immediately threw into the trash when we got home because they had killed my left foot?
I think they caused a stress fracture. My left foot still hurts, a lot, all day and night. There's no bruise, no discoloring, in fact just by looking at it, it's a normal foot. I can move all my toes, though when I stand on my tiptoes, there's a tingly sensation along my instep.
My poor stupid feet. They never did take to high heels, and I guess never will, which is all the more unfair due to my short stature. At least I can wear wedges. QUALITY wedges, that is.
A stress fracture is the only diagnosis I can think of. Or some kind of other internal strain/tear. Ugh.
The only cure is to rest as much as I can, and apply ice then heat, and wait like a month.
So much for bike riding, or getting any exercise at all.
Burn in hell, shitty Steve Madden boots!
That's what I get for buying cheap shoes. You get what you pay for.
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To go with an earlier post about our efforts to live more green, today I'm thinking about how the world food crisis and rising fuel costs impact me directly. Because we own a hybrid car and only spend about $20-25 per month on gas, the cost of fuel doesn't impact us DIRECTLY, per se. But it does affect us indirectly, as it does everyone else, particularly due to the costs of transporting goods thousands of miles by truck, plane, and ship. It is more important than ever to seek out local food and other products. So I'm making that my goal this summer. Of course we will be eating the most local tomatoes possible -- ones grown in our yard, virtually for free. I am going to start getting some of our weekly food from the farmer's market in town, though it's pretty small and I might check out the market on the island which I know will be a lot bigger. I would love to have local cheese and eggs, too. When I'm at the supermarket, I am going to pick produce grown in WA instead of Chile. Many of the items in the typical American home were made in China. There is very little getting around it at this point. Americans are addicted to cheap crap. The cheaper the better, who cares where it came from and how many weeks it spent on a freighter getting here, burning oil the whole way. So I try hard to find non-Chinese goods when I can, specifically American if possible. Yeah, you pay more for this stuff. Because unlike China, we have a minimum wage. Hopefully when we get a new bed at some point this year, it will be one from a furniture maker in Tacoma. It will last forever and only travel 30 miles to get here. It's very very difficult to find affordable new clothing that was not made in China or other distant lands (Sri Lanka, Thailand, etc). So you either budget to buy a few pricey, American fashions, or you do what I'm going to do, which is buy my clothing used. Which is kinda what I always did before I worked at Gap and got my (boring) clothes for 50% off for nine years. What are you doing to deal with inflation and gas prices? Are you changing your lifestyle? Do you conserve energy, re-use things, recycle more aggressively? Anything? Tags: green
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