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Ryan Matthew - Oddities
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Some very good photos of a collection of curios and oddities, as assembled by Ryan Matthews.
Cool.
Link: Ryan Matthews
8 Amazing Garage Sale Finds
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This from Mental Floss - 8 Amazing Garage Sale Finds. More the kind of treasures I'm likely to happen upon...
Link: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/96415
Although, in truth, I think there have been far, far better finds. They just haven't been reported...
Whitehorse to Skagway
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Having explored Whitehorse - or as much as the deadline would permit - we're off to Skagway. Alaska.
It's a short drive, and we break it up with light amusements. The Yukon Suspension Bridge, a trivial (and missable) tourist attraction on the highway.
I'm excited by the rocks - lots of hard rock, mica schist, the promise of more interesting minerals to come.
Now the drive - Whitehorse to Skagway - is short - perhaps 2 hours - but it's beautiful. The first hour flies - stop at the suspension bridge, wander, into car, but here the terrain changes.
We drive between increasingly high coastal mountains, beneath us a low valley, glacially carved from the granite, adorned with thousands of dwarf pines and tiny lakes. It's a surreal scene. And I take pictures, but none would do it justice.
A valley, between two giant mountains, filled with pine trees - (?) perhaps a foot high, "lakes" as small as a foot wide, thousands of them, you feel - as you look upon it - as a giant....
The road climbs into the mist and drizzle - the view vanishes, hopes for a grand photo vanish. over the White Pass - visibility - perhaps 50 feet, rain, drizzle, up, up, up, then finally down.
Out of the rain and mist and into Skagway.
The Problem With You Is....
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Now I've had this conversation before, a few times if memory serves, but she's not letting it go.
She's generous with her unsolicited criticism, inventorying my faults, some real, most imagined, her unending list of trivial complaints, when asked what she wants (more money perhaps?) she changes her tack.
She has vicious little oratories on the high road of the exemplary path she's taken, I should profit by her example, learn from her.
"THE PROBLEM WITH YOU IS..."
and she starts again, taking liberties with a friendship based soley on the mutual interest of our child, she lectures, prevaricates, I try to look interested, don't contradict her or point out the many blind alleys she roams down, it's mind numbing and tragic all at the same time.
I'm well aware my faults, both real and imagined, but to have to listen to the inventory of them by a vindictive ex, sometimes it's too much.
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