Tag: Heimatkunde
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Be your own magnet
Lately I’ve been trying to expand the analog side of my life, after retracting into a digital shell during the hottest part of the NAZI TORTURE. I was functioning in OBEYING ALL ORDERS VERBATIM SIR! NAME RANK AND SERIAL NUMBER SIR! mode. Now I’m trying to recapture the analog/digital proportion that I had before the…
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Yes sir, she’s my puzzle
One neighbor has been playing a puzzling form of music for many months. Not annoyingly loud, just weirdly monotonous. It sounds like tuned bongos or tuned snares. At first I thought it was a school band practicing their marches, but there’s no school band nearby. I never hear any bass guitar or other actual instruments,…
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Gaia is pleased
Part of a Driver’s Dream cartoon from Motor Age 1913: Meanwhile here in Spokane, the screechily Gaian city “government” is tearing down a pedestrian bridge over I-90 as part of its long-term mission to make life miserable for pedestrians. This is pleasing in the sight of Gaia, because it means more dead peasants. = =…
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Super-random thought
On this morning’s walk, my old eyes thought I saw some miniature writing on the pavement. First thought: Micro-graffiti! Neat idea! Turned out to be a piece of plastic food wrapper, transparent with white letters, so it looked like white paint on the asphalt. Still a neat idea. In other forms of art, miniatures are…
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Rats leave sunk ship
Protos continues to track a semi-local connection to the Sammy story: Moonstone Bank chief legal officer Joseph Vincent, a former top banking regulator, has left the financial firm, after being with the bank for just eight months. Vincent joined Moonstone, one of the smallest banks in the country, which gained national attention late last year…
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Launderette
Protos writes up a peculiar story about a tiny bank in a Palouse town that ended up as a node in Bankman-Fried’s crime syndicate. Farmington is a typical leftover small town between Spokane and Pullman. It briefly flourished as a rail terminal, then faded down to the magic number of 150. The Farmington Bank remained…
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Neighborhood puzzle
A week ago I heard an odd noise around 5AM. Sounded sort of like a skateboard but not quite. I peeked out the window. It was a young man pulling an office chair down the street. I could see a piece of paper on the chair. AHA! I’ve done the same thing a few times.…
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Allocation, allocation, allocation
One of the programs in my bedtime playlist featured Bing singing Kokomo Indiana. Got me thinking about songs and cities and states. There were two other popular Indiana songs, Gary and Back Home. Gary and Kokomo are novelty songs, mainly having fun with the syllables, not intended as a tribute. Back Home was a proper…
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Instant sale
For ten years I’d been walking and watching one vacant apartment building in the neighborhood. The renovation process was LOOOOOOOOOOOOONG at the start and fast at the finish. Five years of occasional activity, followed by five months of real work. They rented the apts on 11/25/21. Then they immediately started building two new houses across…
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Rabbits!
On my morning walk through a light dusting of snow, I saw unfamiliar footprints. Not dogs or cats or squirrels. Each set was a trapezoidal pattern. Checked Google, and sure enough it’s rabbits. I remember seeing a few rabbits in that part of the neighborhood 10 years ago, but no actual bunnies or tracks since…
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Raking record
This really belongs in my private daily log, but for some reason I started recording it here, so will continue the tradition. This picture is old; two years ago I finally figured out that raking is easier and safer WITHOUT the ladder. I don’t know why it took so long to try it both ways!…
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The 10-year flip
I started daily walks in Dec 2011, always centered on one place in the neighborhood. My intention was to ‘pray’ the old building into better shape. It took exactly ten years. I’ve been tracking it in the blog at important change points…. = = = = = Some of the notes, sorted by date: Dec…
Polistra's Mill 