a new candidate for favorite walk to work
Apr. 22nd, 2004 07:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eubMy walk to work is diagonally across what is roughly a grid, so I've been turning corners haphazardly each day, routing myself within the rectangle of no doubling back. Today I came home by walking down the Burke-Gilman until it leaves the canal, and then turning north -- a block eastwards out of the rectangle, so I hadn't walked there. It's a wonderful row of yards, all different theories side by side. The neighborhood has many good yards, I know, but I was struck by these, possibly because the day is beautiful and the sunset was slicing across and all the wisterias are in bloom.
I am very thankful that I've ended up working in a place that's a beautiful walk from home. It hauls me into the day in the morning, and in the evening for twenty minutes I don't think, just walk.
Also thankful that when I want to go outside to think about SQL, it's two minutes to the canal (I've been shown the nondescript door to the postern gate, not twenty feet from my desk), and what's more, the minute I stopped under the bridge, it went to lift for my benefit. From down there, at the start it's like the roof hovering off, and at the very end it drifts down extra-slowly, like a parachute settling.
There's even a bookstore on the way home, for sufficiently extravagant values of "on the way".
I am very thankful that I've ended up working in a place that's a beautiful walk from home. It hauls me into the day in the morning, and in the evening for twenty minutes I don't think, just walk.
Also thankful that when I want to go outside to think about SQL, it's two minutes to the canal (I've been shown the nondescript door to the postern gate, not twenty feet from my desk), and what's more, the minute I stopped under the bridge, it went to lift for my benefit. From down there, at the start it's like the roof hovering off, and at the very end it drifts down extra-slowly, like a parachute settling.
There's even a bookstore on the way home, for sufficiently extravagant values of "on the way".
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Date: 2004-04-23 08:59 am (UTC)That makes me very happy for you.
and happy in general, i guess.
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Date: 2004-04-23 07:29 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-04-23 10:08 am (UTC)Impinj is a bit west of the Fremont bridge, so my commute along the canal is between there and 2nd NW. (And it's no slower than a within-the-box route, probably because the canal is a diagonal.)
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Date: 2004-04-23 11:10 am (UTC)