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The Caios of Incredulity

The ides of March!

such a complex and not easy to summarize story. But we still have it. We have it as myth, as legend, at the statue of Pompey, for whom G. Ceasar weeped . . . Ceasar was murdered.

so that was how many years ago? And I've studied of late details of the world that I had previously blissfully ignored. And come to fancy learning about old buildings and old places and the people who made towns and why they were where they were and who was there, and when did they leave and why do some places get abandoned, and who is left behind. And who are the real heroes? or are any more important than any others?

See the world in your living room

travel videos and vacation place walkthroughs

It's a great way to pass time, but you can't do it everyday. I watch 'walk about' videos of foreign localles. I've 'travelled' to very very many different places. It's a fun hobby to watch them and I like to screen capture and read the signs and plauges and monument even to the point of using the translate to translate from Latin to English. It doesn't do that good a job it's better to find someone's real tranlation and what is very clear to me is that there are free books (yes free!!!) that you can just download and read. So I do that too. Usually these are 100 years old so it's quaint, you know, you get an antique point of view and a lot of gossippy hearsay about things. And you get the names and places and the iternerary and the whole dealeao of the travel writer wrapped within that antique point of view, perhaps not quite getting what is really going on at a place, not really understanding the people.

The walk throughs are cute but, too, you need to say 'who is doing this?' and is it in a style that is useful for me. I don't mind the 'oh it's too close' because I understand that most people imagine watching on a smaller screen. So that would be the right size. But for me the 'no face at all' videos are OK for latenight , like your on a hike. You woke up at midnight after typing furiously all day . . . and doing stuff, and worry, and say "I need a break, let me find me a video". I'm not plugging anyone because I just like to keep it more private. It's more intimite that way in some sense.

And from time to time if it's real you see real people in the doorways of a Cantina and it's a guy with great big shaggy hair and he's got a giant smile and he's there with full cheer. No mask. With his compadres. Guy to the side on a cell phone fiddling like people do. A bunch of other people. and the view of some distant store in the early evening. Go on in and have some wine. I read another travel story about some bonvivant English guy in the Austrian Alps? No it was the former Austrian Alps and it was the Itallian alps and he goes on and on about taking a long hike between monestaries. That is a little book I picked up in a thrist shop. Fun little thing. He explained a lot about the lifestyle of those high mountain places. The people all store their wine in the same choice localle, sometimes a cave. And the walk he describes has him and an English friend, an Italian Signorina, and two Italian men who were clowning around 'at the precipace'

And PS to all of you who are all 'oh at the precipace', the joke is that it's not a dangerous place unless you are a fool. So the travel author explained about how his two young men friends, clowned as if it were the dramatic sad part of sorrowful despair, like an operetic drama, and they were going to throw themselves off the cliff. But they didn't. They wondered on throught he high land trail to the next little hamlet with it's Cantina and the locals there to share the wine on what was probably a holiday or feast day. And the writer describes the ruins of estates and castles that are along the route.

So I could take that little book (thought I haven't done it with that book yet) and find all those places in a walkthgrough or travel video and see the sights that the travel writer saw in the 1920s. I did that with a book on another part, farther south of there, and saw the town at the Straights of Messina and also one where there is a temple of Hera on a point of land (that the author never got to go out to on account of getting sick at the lodging house)

Now that travelling isn't as easy I could reveiw my own cache of travel photos, and my own writings on the places where I used to wonder, through the SouthWest from time to time, and then Seattle for a few trips (and that whole rainy part and the long road to nowhere places where you never see anyone but you know that they see you . . .

And then California and etc, which I have pictures of else where on these pages.

DC

For example DC was always one of my places to go on a whim. I used to enjoy the long car ride through the wild lands of New York and Pennsylvania. I learned to avoid New Jersey on the way down, but go through it on the way up. When I heard about traffic in Jersey being poltically blokcered, I made a point of bypassing it.

But DC was always easy. I'd go there and I'd stay in York the night before. Then get up early, get right into the city in the AM. Handful of quarter dollars (I'd buy a couple of rolls at a bank) to feed the meters and , seriously two hours is enough time in one spot.Sadly though the electronic metering makes it more difficult to do that. And in a lot of places in DC you used to be able to park for free. There is very limited parking there now. So I'd park usually over by the Bueuro of Printing and Engraving and I'd walk over to the Washington Monument. I'd go to the WWII memorial. I'd saunter down to the Lincoln Memorial. I'd photograph the scene, travel photo type photos. I have cherry blossom pictures somewhere. I'd take shots of the Lincoln statue. You can see them on this page (I colorized them) I also made them shake.

And it is that time of year that it's the best time fo year to go there, about a week and a half from now is usually a perfect blooming week. Yet, for some reason I don't think it's going to be the same. I think I'll stay away.

6:34 PM EST Mar 14 ,2021

supposedly there will be a presidential speach in just a short whilee . . . , so if a feed breaks in don't be surprised by that, so I have read at another site, but not Parlor or gab because they don't seem taa-work anymore

12:50 PM EST Jan 11 ,2021

Who won?

the stripe club at the top of the pyramid at the cap of the obelisk at the end of the old regime . . .

alright, heres the bit, a well known interviewer (like Jerry Sienfeld or other equally well liked famous hollywood person ) uses the following approach in a bit:

"i've been asleep since . . . mid October, who is the president"

and I dare anyone famous to go do this bit out in the streets and live stream it with random non celebrities giving their unfettered opinions on the matter . . .

Whatever. Life goes on.

No worries.

Vote for Donald Trump! 2024 (if he's running)

Go Donald Trump!

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Be Praiseful and Thankful to The Lord!

July 12, 2020

change yourself

And the world changes around you

November Glooms and fog . . . are months away!

It's July, it's been humid. Very hot some days. The oppressive humidity hits you as you leave the house when the storms are here.

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I know I know I know I know!


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Here is today's pretty poem:

  

Say you say you say you said
will it matter
when you're dead?

I don't know just what to say
but I'll say it anyway.

I don't know 
where we went wrong
I wrote my sarrows
in this song
I thought by now 
that I'd be strong
I hope it doesn't
take that long.

Say you said you said you say
will it matter
anyway?

I don't know where we went wrong
I turned around and you were gone.

I don't know the reason
for your buddies leaving
but love's not out-of-season
gotta keep believeing
in Love!

  a ballad

    

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Be nice to yourself and others. What other choice?

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Wake up!

 
 
 

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♥♥ Praise ♥♥ the ♥♥ Lord ♥♥ !!

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