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Conversation today:

Berck:

I don’t know what’s with the wrecks.
every freaking morning.
this morning, I got off the interstate at uintah.
wreck at GoG and Nevada.  Got past that, got back on the interstate, another wreck past Woodmen
exited Woodmen
another wreck on North Academy.
1.5 hours to get to work.

 
Jonah:
I told you there was a wreck at GoG and Nevada.
The wreck past Woodmen was new, though.

 
Berck: ….and the one on academy.

 
Jonah: yeesh

 
Berck: academy was awesome, looked like a semi crashed into 6 cars stopped at a light, smashed them all into each other.

 
Jonah:
holy crap!
apparently no injuries, though

 
Berck:
did you find a news article about it?
I was going to link you, but didn’t find one

 
Jonah: Just this https://www.facebook.com/kktv11news/photos/a.81766448380.78881.44428318380/10152633792413381/?type=1

Berck:
THAT’S ME!!!
I’m in that photo!

 
Jonah: ha!  so you are!

 
Berck:
that’s so awesome.
and you didn’t even notice.

I made a quick trip to Barnes & Noble this evening after work to pick up a book.  I was hoping it would be quick, but they’re repaving almost the entire parking lot, so it’s nearly impossible to get to.  I eventually found a spot in the back and weaved my way through the maze of yellow tape and traffic barrels up to the front door.  Guys in hardhats operating heavy equipment were working out on the fresh pavement.  The acrid smell of asphalt was in the air.

All Barnes & Nobles are apparently identical all over the country.  They all have the double doors that open to a foyer.  I passed through the first set and was faced with the heavy wooden doors that open into the store.  The smell of asphalt was replaced with the scent of coffee.

And I was transported.  Back 20 years, half my lifetime.  The same doors, the same aroma. Beyond those doors I would find laughter, conversation, friendship, and love. All I had to do was open the doors.  I paused.

Not all Barnes & Nobles are identical.

We’re watching the first episode of Garfunkel and Oates tonight (“The Fade Away”), and Berck pauses the show and backs it up and says, “Is that where I think it is?” It shows this street scene in Old Colorado City on Colorado Avenue at 26th Street (accross the street from Old Colorado City Creamery to the west and Pizzeria Rustica to the south):  https://www.google.com/maps/@38.8481307,-104.8641604,3a,75y,91.35h,81.57t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s_gVUFngy3nnM0hcF2It1bw!2e0

The show takes place in Hollywood.  Apparently, Fred Savage thought Old Colorado City was a perfect street view.  (Well, it is.)

Finally, after too long off (admittedly, much of it for OSH, and that shoudln’t count against us, right?), I managed to get an hour in this evening after work. Riveted the rear spar to the right elevator.

Berck: 1 hour.