this lane endsI've been spending most of the last couple of weeks working, playing Diablo II and driving around. Driving around is the most fun. I really like exploring. I've been wandering around the parts of this town that are too far away to walk or bike. I've also been going a bit further. Saturday, I took to wondering where Northfield Dr went and ended up in Guelph. So I explored Guelph a bit. I like the downtown. They've got some fabulous architecture... Much nicer than Kitchener, where their first inclination when they see an old buiding (that hasn't burned down yet) is to tear it down and build a mall that no one wants. Driving is still a bit tense, though. I only like it if I'm the only car on the road. This doesn't happen very often. One irritating complication I've found around town is that, while there are lots of 4-lane parkways to get you around places, they have this annoying tendency to merge back to 2 lanes just as traffic really picks up. Or "right land must turn right" or "left lane must turn left." They never give you enough notice (and heaven help you in winter, when the snow and slush cover up the little arrows on the road). Which is one of the reasons I'm doing all this exploring stuff. I want to expand the map in my head. Owning a car has also helped me to become a more efficient consumer. I've bought stuff in the last couple weeks I've been meaning to buy for months, but never thought it was really worth the effort to lug all that junk home. Now I can happily accumulate all sorts of stuff. That's good. At least that money isn't going into gasoline... I just ticked over 1300km and I've only put $40 into it ('course, it came with a full tank, only half of which was burned off on my trip back from Belleville). comments:
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