Chehalis Western Trail in Olympia, WA.
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Drove out to Big Cypress last night to try to shoot the Milky Way, but the weather didnāt quite cooperate. Looking at the weather there was a storm front that was supposed to pass a through around 9-10 pm, and then the skies would be clear for a few hours. If it cleared up fast enough I thought I could get a cool photo of the Milky Way with my favorite cypress tree Surrounded by water with the stars reflecting around it. Unfortunately by the time the clouds cleared off around 11:30, the Milky Way had passed by the alignment that would work. So no photo. But I did witness one of the cooler sunsets Iāve ever seen driving out to BCNP. As the sun was dropping toward the horizon it lit up the underside of this storm cell and illuminated the underside of the storm with red-orange light, and because the rain was so think, it diffused the sunlight, and softened the glow enough that you could see the sun clearly as a red-orange ball. Unfortunately I didnāt have my real camera out to take a photo, so I just grabbed this shot with my iPhone:
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I have a couple of Pacificos in the fridge. Iām not a beer snob so 
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Iāll take a Pacifico over any other beer after 15 mile bike ride in the heat.
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Thanks for the info on the varnish clamsā¦I wasnāt aware.
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Iām doing clams linguine.
Also, is we ever make it past covid, I really think we should have a PNW meetup.
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Not over its banks, thanks to the system of flood control dams built after the devastating 1938 hurricane. Hereās a picture of the Contoocook, which flows into the Merrimack, from a couple of weeks ago. The Army Corps of Engineers had released some water from the dam upstream without warning the downstream interests, and it flooded significantly in places. In general though, the system works really well.
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15 minutes of this view. Now watching train roll backwards through intersection. Debating turning around and taking alternate route, which I know has fucked up traffic. Bad idea to go out today.
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Iām staying in a place like one of those Progressive commercials. These are all the pillows I had to take off the bed to sleep on it.
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Iām watching old school cable TV like a shlub - scrolling through a guide that shows 4 channels at a time, no pausing, no FFing through commercials, HD NBC hidden on channel 704 while SD NBC is channel 4. How did we ever put up with this?
I think I put up with it because Iām not familiar with the streaming world, thus donāt know what Iām missing. There is an ad on the movie Iām watching now. Peopleās contentment is usually relative to what they have experienced rather than any objective measure. I also have vague fears that I will lose access to sports.
That was my tv experience until last week. I cancelled it and now Iām doing broadcast tv supplemented with free streaming Pluto tv and free for the moment Peacock. Since I can manage at best 50% attention, Iām fine with this.
Re my previous post itt, the train cleared the intersection 5 minutes later. The wait didnāt pay off though bc the road was closed at the next intersection.
So just to clarify - in 2021 the two of you have old school cable with no DVR and a guide that looks like this?
Shit I just realized I missed Pardon the Interruption on ESPN2.
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The color scheme on my guide is mostly blue.
Since my last post I started researching. I found out my cable includes Peacock. I also found out there is no legal way around cable to watch the White Sox.
Thatās what we have. I wish we didnāt even have that.