retropost. Not sure if this was the right date...

(All I have in my memory to locate this by is that Eor was asleep. I think.)

Today, Derien travelled 1.12 miles on the journey from Bag End to Rivendell.

Continued on the journey to Rivendell

A total of 69.48 miles along the way.

Generated by Eor's Walk Tool inspired by Eowyn Challenge.net

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I posted on Facebook:

The good news is, I didn't have to pay on my car repairs today. The bad news is, that's because the repairs are not finished. One of the parts isn't available and I have to take the car back next Friday at 9am for another two hour session. But hanging around in Portland for four hours, today, gave me the opportunity to bump into an old acquaintance who it was good to talk to. :)

The other good things about waiting around Portland for four hours - I found out Perx-U-Up Cafe has a couple of gluten free baked treats, but don't get their breakfast pizza (not gluten-free). I found out that at Whole Foods they did not seem to have gluten free baked goods in the cafe. And I wrote in my journal AND (possibly) on my Pseudo Victorian Boys. About three handwritten pages of Ethan babbling on while Tom can't talk. I don't know. :)

I felt bad Eor alone for five hours, but he's doing better, already, and began hobbling around trying to clean house, today.

Now I need to make garlic chutney, and then I need to sleep, tonight. I lay awake last night wishing I could reboot Parker Lewis Can't Lose with Parker as a female and less magical realism.

Frankly, I'm getting a little pissed off

Amedia posted about driving in Texas now that the speed limit has gone up to 75, and I was thinking how dangerous that sounded, when I heard that in fact there's a bill that's being considered in Maine to raise the speed limit on 295 (between Portland and Gardiner) to 75. It's currently 65, and I've heard people say that it's considered some of the most dangerous highway in Maine because of the number of accidents that occur. Imho this may have nothing to do with the road itself, but a lot to do with the fact that it's more crowded that most other roads in Maine, and that in the summer there's even more people, and a lot of them are tourists who don't know where they're going. Back when I had to be at work at 11am I formed a habit of leaving an hour early to make my 20-minute drive because there were accidents so often that my Supervisors stopped accepting that as an answer as to why I was late.

Of course the speed limit up North has been 75 for a long time, and they seem to think they drive better, but the roads are so empty that there's usually little for them to run into. Even so, there was a really horrific accident a few years ago in which two mothers and all the kids in both families were wiped out because they were going 90 in an SUV and lost control. Raise the speed limit and the multitude of accidents in the Portland area are going to be much worse accidents.

Even better, they're doing work right now to shorten some of the on ramps that don't have enough accidents. After putting out a bond bill to vote so they could repair bridges. If they have the money to change those on-ramps that are perfectly fine they probably already had the money to repair those bridges, we probably didn't have to put out bonds for that.