Acquisition: GPS Receiver. As an early birthday present for myself, I was given liberty to splurge on a GPS receiver. Not the one shown here, though. Mine has a little crack on the screen from the first day I used it, when I was staring at myself walking through the world on the screen instead of looking forwards as I walked through the real world. I tripped over a wire, and tumbled forcefully down, my weight on my palms and the gadget in my palms.A similar incident happened the second day I played with it, but fortunately it was only my shins, and not the gadget, that got banged up this time.
Why a GPS unit? Geohashing, of course.
Why a GPS unit? Geohashing, of course.Divestiture: I got a new pair of glasses recently, and it occurred to me that I have never, since college, thrown a pair of glasses out once it was replaced.
I kept three, and was able to donate the rest to the Lions Club, who will presumably find someone with even less style sense than me to inflict them on.
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As it happens, I took the GPS unit on the cliffside trail to the top of Multnomah Falls yesterday. Fortunately, I had two alert companions to keep me from walking out into open space while staring enchanting at the little image of myself walking on the screen.
Ooh, broke it on the first day! Very auspicious. I have all my glasses too, except for my very fist pair. Somewhere.
oh man... I only keep two spare pairs of glasses (and actually, I'm currently down to one back up pair). Gotta get rid of the evidence you know. ;)
It just cracks me up to no end that you had a mishap by looking at yourself on the GPS instead of in the real world.
And I was looking at your glasses to see if I saw the ones I remember you wearing ... I think perhaps I do but you are amazingly consistent in your basic "wire' choices. Never any plastic for you?
i am totally tickled by the logo (?) for Acquisition & Divestiture. :)
fingers: Actually auspicious? Or ironically auspicious? I can never tell with you...
Jenners: What you see is what I've had.
gl.: Me too! I am the king of Microsoft Paint!
Kept? Three? ??
No, no, no, ACTUAL auspicious, the real deal. But of course, you have to say "suei suei ping an" right after you do it, and you may actually have to have broken it into pieces for that to work. And it might have to be on the first day of the year too. I'm a little fuzzy on the ACTUAL details of this. But we're still "friends," right? (I'm feeling mighty sheepish about that!)
I am glad to say that I do not have every pair of glasses, as they would number around 50 pairs, starting with the (nearly deforming) pinkish plastic pair issued by the US Army Dispensary when I was 9. (I had apparently needed glasses for quite some time. I had never realized that the chalkboard had SOLID lines, as they appeared to be dashes to me; I thought part of the trick of school was to figure out what was up there by kind of 'connecting the dots.')
At least two pairs were those cats'-eyes kind with the big corners; it went with the tail fins on the Belchfire 8.
Now we need a blog post featuring three pictures of you in each of your three remaining glasses. Perhaps you can find the perfect facial hair pattern for each.
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