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LEB has a long layover in Denver
tomorrow and I am going to take a few hours off and meet her for lunch.
An immensely cool coworker a) has lent me a booklet about the public art
at DIA (a fascinating study I'm sure) for an après déjeuner
walking tour and b) will lend me her new Subaru Legacy Outback to get
there.
I am borrowing a car to get there instead of driving the Terrapin because
the Terrapin is apparently on its last legs.
So
we might buy a car soon, maybe a Subaru Impreza Outback.
Meanwhile, LEB will come bearing baguettes from JUMB.
I am going to buy a pound of premium butter and whatever homemade preserves
I can steal from wherever I can in this newfangled, berry-bush-less town
and eat.
We just figured out our budget. We should be able to afford shelter, food,
raiment, my expanding list of basic necessities, and the car.
Actually the not hot new car, since the Tercel has a black interior
and no a/c (and in Denver, a mile up without clouds or trees, that's an
issue--I never thought I'd say it) and I hope we can get a paler interior
along with the a/c.
To break the car in, we're going to the Pacific Northwest this summer.
Pro'ly in August. Trees. Rain. The Pacific. Other mountains. Orcas, I
hope, maybe an otter or two. MEWN.
ASZ and his wife. Whomever else
I choose to stalk in the Emerald City.
I had my six-month evaluation today. Didn't have to pee continuously,
a good sign. My Cool Boss told me I had to learn to promote myself better.
I had all these wishy-washy fulfillments of my performance expectations,
and she laughed at me as she crossed out "met goal" and wrote
in "exceeded goal."
Yes, our car, whose model name, Tercel, is that for a male falcon, is
called the Terrapin. It's green, shaped more like a turtle than a raptor,
and then there's Terrapin Station.
Those
baguettes, which I obviously can't stop thinking about, are going to be
fresh. JUMB was baking today in anticipation of sewing (the Ladies' Sewing
and Terrorist Society) chez Charenton tonight and LEB's trip tomorrow.
 The
City (and County) of Denver's new web site is denvergov.com.No
one has yet been able adequately to explain to me why a government site
isn't .gov and why, if TPTB determined that it's a commercial site, why
a more handsome alternative to denvergov wasn't invented. Anyway, this
jpeg is on its front page and I stole it. It's a winter shot taken
from the new central branch of the 'brary, and my building appears in
it. It's not a sharp enough image to show the mountains in the background.
The wide sidewalk in the middle cuts across the belly of the Civic Center,
which has the City and County building at the west end (here at the far
left) and the state capitol at the east. This shot therefore faces west
of north.
Oh,
and by the way, if ever you see a photograph of Denver in which the mountains
loom over downtown in a close-up, it's lying. You have to be a couple
of miles from downtown before you can get that perspective.
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