A world wide web of LIES

The other day I saw a Cedar Waxwing. Actually, about eight of them, feasting on the berries of a nearby tree. A-anne saw them the day before, and got a picture:

I wanted to get my own, but could not find my zoom lens. I had to settle for the camera in my Mind.

Later that very same day—so much later it was actually night—I saw a screech owl up in another nearby tree. I can’t do the normal owl call, so I got its attention by making high pitched fart sounds. It was really cute, until it clawed my eyes out. (That’s how this story would have ended if I didn’t stop making those sounds!)

Today I finally got my money’s worth from the all-day Saturday pass ($2 for unlimited bus rides).

• 20 Red South: downtown to campus, for pizza and witnessing whimsical conveyances
  
• 100 Yellow South: campus to Savoy, for the viewing of latest “talkie” film involving masked adventurers
• 100 Yellow North: Savoy to Target (this is practically the entire length of this route, from the southernmost to northernmost and took about an hour)
• 20 Red South (again): back to downtown
• 50 Green East: downtown to easternmost edge of Urbana, ostensibly for more grocery shopping but mainly I was engrossed in my reading material and kind of aimless
• 50 Green West: back home (downtown)
• NEVER DOING SOMETHING LIKE THIS AGAIN

Actually, I had an idea once, when I was driving all up and down the Olympic Peninsula. I’d be out in the middle of nowhere, and there’d be a bus stop sign there. Western Washington has a whole mess of different local, county, and community bus systems, so I wanted to see how far I could get, starting in downtown Seattle. I could get pretty far into the Peninsula, for sure, and heading north and east I could probably get close to the Cascades.