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ellarienThere are still barrel cactus flowers on campus -- mostly rather pleasantly yellow-orange ones. I'm still adapting to the warmth and brightness, and not adapting particularly well to the timezone. By this stage in September, the edge is starting to come off the summer heat, and mornings and evenings can be quite pleasant.
The skeleton of the old hospital next to my apartment complex has still not disappeared, but there's now a nice picture on the fence, illustrating what is supposed to be there by next summer. That also appears to be a two-storey building, so maybe they're going to reuse the old framework, but it seems unlikely around here, where buildings are knocked down far more often than they are reused.
It turns out that the Tucson bus system, which I usually describe as rudimentary, has won a national award in the 4-30 million rides/year class. That isn't all that many in a city of somewhere well over half a million. Still, the buses are in reasonably good shape, with three wheelchair and two bicycle spaces each, the drivers are friendly, and the service is mostly reliable.
Old Laptop has an 11Gb hard drive, about 90% full, and runs Win98. I have two external USB hard drives -- one pocket-sized and portable, the other a table-sitting 150Gb. It turns out they can't both be connected at the same time, so transferring files directly from one to the other is out. I know I'm fortunate to have a spare machine at all, but I can't help wondering how many other frustrating limitations I'm going to run into in the next week or three. There are reasons why this machine was relegated to Old Laptop.
(And now the CD drive is refusing to open, which tends to happen when it's been in use for a while.)
The skeleton of the old hospital next to my apartment complex has still not disappeared, but there's now a nice picture on the fence, illustrating what is supposed to be there by next summer. That also appears to be a two-storey building, so maybe they're going to reuse the old framework, but it seems unlikely around here, where buildings are knocked down far more often than they are reused.
It turns out that the Tucson bus system, which I usually describe as rudimentary, has won a national award in the 4-30 million rides/year class. That isn't all that many in a city of somewhere well over half a million. Still, the buses are in reasonably good shape, with three wheelchair and two bicycle spaces each, the drivers are friendly, and the service is mostly reliable.
Old Laptop has an 11Gb hard drive, about 90% full, and runs Win98. I have two external USB hard drives -- one pocket-sized and portable, the other a table-sitting 150Gb. It turns out they can't both be connected at the same time, so transferring files directly from one to the other is out. I know I'm fortunate to have a spare machine at all, but I can't help wondering how many other frustrating limitations I'm going to run into in the next week or three. There are reasons why this machine was relegated to Old Laptop.
(And now the CD drive is refusing to open, which tends to happen when it's been in use for a while.)