Friday Night Chasing the Train

 

Today I worked from home and did laundry, so I took a photo of the two T-shirts Travalon bought at Irish Fest.

At first it was very rainy today, and then it was very humid, so I didn't spend much time outside. After work I danced around the house to music and then did DuoLingo.

When Travalon came home, we went to the rail yard, and we could see some really cool clouds from there.

A train was just pulling out of the yard, and Travalon got a couple of shots of graffiti.

We went to the place off of Fair Oaks, but the cars there have all been there for a long time. Then we tried to find the train that had just left but never found it again. We went by Muso, where they were having improv tonight, but that didn't interest us. We went by the East Side Club, but there was a performer with a $5 cover charge, and we hadn't brought our membership cards to get in free, plus the parking lot was packed. So we went to the Northside Lounge and sat outside with some fancy drinks, talking about our travels to foreign lands. That made me feel like I was in college again. Some people said they liked Travalon's Dubrovnik shirt, and other people said they liked my "Is Potato" shirt and my hat from Africa Fest. 

Speaking of train graffiti, here are screenshots from the longer video recently posted on social media.

I love how colorful some of these are. Stay tuned for more screenshots from Travalon's videos.

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Beautiful Evening at the Elks Club

 

Today did not start off fortuitously. The traffic was so bad that I was half an hour late to work, and then there was a cloudburst just as I got out of the car, so I was soaked. I walked slowly with Hardingfele at lunch, since she had hurt her toe, and I didn't bring my sunglasses because it was so overcast... and then the sun came out. As I was waiting for the shuttle, I suddenly realized I hadn't locked the breakroom or the copier room, but really, what are people going to steal - a ream of paper and some paper plates? Anyway, so many people were still around that it just didn't occur to me. Usually I'm the last one there.

However, things got better in the evening, when I joined some Shamrock Club buddies at the Elks Club for the monthly Irish session. Famie and Celtic Lass were there, and Travalon joined us when he got done with work. Here is a selfie Celtic Lass took of her and me.

And I love this shot that shows all of us (except Celtic Lass, who was taking the photo), the musicians behind us, and the lake beyond all of us.

The craziest part is that Celtic Lass introduced us to a hairdresser who used to cut my hair when I was in college. She moved to another studio not as close to campus, so in my mind she might as well have moved to Philadelphia, since at that time I had no car and didn't know the city, and back then students didn't get free bus passes. I've been going to my current hairdresser ever since this other one left, but I remember really liking this one. Anyway, it was a beautiful evening with wonderful people and excellent tunes.

Travalon said that I didn't post enough photos of dunes from his trip, so here are photos of dunes:

These are only some of his photos of dunes, but you get the idea.

This post wouldn't be complete without some train graffiti, so enjoy these from a train that went through our town yesterday.

I still have lots more graffiti to post, from a longer video of a local train and also the videos Travalon took a few weeks back. If you love train graffiti, keep checking back!

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