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I'm in Ithaca, very comfortable in my friends' guest-bedroom, glad I brought my laptop, because they have wifi. We've finished our movie (March of the Anthropomorphic Climate-Challenged Species; which was as good as I was hoping). And we finished our talking-till-late, and I'm just about ready for sleep.

My host D's fly-fish tying hobby makes much more sense to me now. It's not about catching as many fish as possible, really- it's about the comunity they've built, where they will make these tiny pieces of art, with rare feather-bits and irridescent strands which catch the light precisely the same way a bug would. And then they trade them across the continent to each other.

The ride down in bats22's car was uneventful and he's certainly good company. Discovery the first: Easypass/Fastlane doodads are terrifically convenient. They don't add to the price of the trip, and save minutes (possibly many minutes) at each toll booth, as well as saving you from rooting arond for reasonably-exact change. If I ever move back to the US Northeast, I'm going to want one.

( Shell Game? )

( Smelly house-guest hints )