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dragonlady7via http://ift.tt/2qBcx22:eveiya replied to your post “Here’s the thing about my 300-mile, straight-line, virtually-no-hills,…”
I hadn’t realised until I looked at the Google map link but in Buffalo and on that road you are actually as close to my aunt and uncle in Ottawa as you are to New York City. Anyway I enjoyed your landscape painting with words here. ♥
Oh yes, Ottawa is quite close, and NYC is really far. I have been meaning to go to Ottawa for literally decades. I’ve been to Montreal precisely once, for a matter of hours, and Toronto many times, but I’ve never made it up to Ottawa, and I keep meaning to. It’s supposed to be really lovely.
I mean, the geography in general is really nice. It’s just. Some of those beautiful remote places, there’s nothing to do.
So while sometimes I wish the farm was a little farther from the highway… mostly, I’m glad to be able to roll down to the city in under ten minutes. Expands one’s options a lot, it does.
I’m glad it conveyed something at all. It was so beautiful, and I was so taken with the whole experience at the time, but I just couldn’t distill it concisely into anything when I finally sat down with it. One of these times, I need to make the drive with my camera out and actually stop at all the scenic overlooks and such– but here’s maybe number five of the top ten dumbest things about the Thruway: they really don’t have any of their rest stops timed for good scenery. They’re just wherever they felt like putting them. There might be a single place you can pull over to look at the scenery, and they just added a second thingy where you can stop and look at the old Erie Canal bed but it’s never open.
It’s very New York. We’ve got a lot in common with the City, but the City doesn’t really know it– but there’s just some common aspects of culture, maybe united in our semi-ineffective bureaucracy and such.
Oh, a bill to move the state onto a single-payer healthcare plan passed the Assembly, so I’ve written to my state Senator, and in so doing discovered that he’s embroiled in a scandal, so that’s swell. I’m planning to write to the local senator for the farm but I literally don’t even know who that is.
If we pass this bill, we’ll beat Vermont to it. Governor Cuomo would love that feather in his cap, but– isn’t it sad, that’s our bar for our politicians to meet to be effective, is to look cool– ugh. Hey, I would fight a badger in a pit for Cuomo if it was him vs. literally any Republican at this point, so. I hate him, my whole family spits when his name is mentioned, but at least you can appeal to his vanity to get laws passed sometimes. (Half the time they’re incoherent, and three-quarters of the time any funds just get misappropriated to friends of his, and literally dozens of people are in prison over this, but he also hasn’t personally offended our international allies or to my knowledge assaulted anyone, so, he’s like a goddamn angel.)
I hadn’t realised until I looked at the Google map link but in Buffalo and on that road you are actually as close to my aunt and uncle in Ottawa as you are to New York City. Anyway I enjoyed your landscape painting with words here. ♥
Oh yes, Ottawa is quite close, and NYC is really far. I have been meaning to go to Ottawa for literally decades. I’ve been to Montreal precisely once, for a matter of hours, and Toronto many times, but I’ve never made it up to Ottawa, and I keep meaning to. It’s supposed to be really lovely.
I mean, the geography in general is really nice. It’s just. Some of those beautiful remote places, there’s nothing to do.
So while sometimes I wish the farm was a little farther from the highway… mostly, I’m glad to be able to roll down to the city in under ten minutes. Expands one’s options a lot, it does.
I’m glad it conveyed something at all. It was so beautiful, and I was so taken with the whole experience at the time, but I just couldn’t distill it concisely into anything when I finally sat down with it. One of these times, I need to make the drive with my camera out and actually stop at all the scenic overlooks and such– but here’s maybe number five of the top ten dumbest things about the Thruway: they really don’t have any of their rest stops timed for good scenery. They’re just wherever they felt like putting them. There might be a single place you can pull over to look at the scenery, and they just added a second thingy where you can stop and look at the old Erie Canal bed but it’s never open.
It’s very New York. We’ve got a lot in common with the City, but the City doesn’t really know it– but there’s just some common aspects of culture, maybe united in our semi-ineffective bureaucracy and such.
Oh, a bill to move the state onto a single-payer healthcare plan passed the Assembly, so I’ve written to my state Senator, and in so doing discovered that he’s embroiled in a scandal, so that’s swell. I’m planning to write to the local senator for the farm but I literally don’t even know who that is.
If we pass this bill, we’ll beat Vermont to it. Governor Cuomo would love that feather in his cap, but– isn’t it sad, that’s our bar for our politicians to meet to be effective, is to look cool– ugh. Hey, I would fight a badger in a pit for Cuomo if it was him vs. literally any Republican at this point, so. I hate him, my whole family spits when his name is mentioned, but at least you can appeal to his vanity to get laws passed sometimes. (Half the time they’re incoherent, and three-quarters of the time any funds just get misappropriated to friends of his, and literally dozens of people are in prison over this, but he also hasn’t personally offended our international allies or to my knowledge assaulted anyone, so, he’s like a goddamn angel.)
