been working on a new esl site, a place where I can link to my work and to what could become a new novel, as soon as i get organized. lots of links will come from here. Lots of links will go directly here. it's an old backwater but has a good url and a completely ESL perspective which will help me remember my career with a good clear glass.
my first step was to put squares on it, but the sharp observer will notice that the squares are the same as the ones on my professional site, and that's because they go places that are vaguely related to my teaching or esl in general. i have squares here and also at my grill site.
another truck accident happened near scattergood; this time a single truck flipped and burned, at mile marker 257, best i can figure, just east of where delta road crosses i-80. several developments here. i am still tracking down whether the comments of someone i met at scattergood in the eighties is relevant. they said, basically, that ancestors of nixon and hemingway resided in the cemetery; that because of the cemetery, they had move i-80 over; because they had to move it, they had to put a curve in it and run it on a hill; and that it could be the only curve in the interstate in the whole state of iowa. now my guess is that curve is just east of delta road, but stare as i do, i can't pinpoint it exactly. another commenter pointed out that the wind hits the road at a different angle right there, whereas in the entire rest of the interstate the wind comes right at you, right there it doesn't. so it's really a matter of what you get used to and whether you feel like you can keep going 70 on an icy interstate when you have no evidence that the road will ever turn or curve. now in the "mass casualty event" of about december 12, right before my surgery, there were accidents in a six-mile stretch on both sides of the road, somewhere east of west branch, and i never was able to place exactly where. but i'm getting the distinct impression this isn't just an only-one-time thing. fortunately nobody has died that i know of. but commenters did say that west branch was kind of like the befmuda triangle of i-80.
it's very cold here, and the snow blows around a lot, and even lands sometimes but doesn't seem to stick much or make solid ice to confound us on the galesburg streets. i, still being sick and all, get steadily more militantly against any driving at all, out there at night, after ten or before it. just getting tired of it. i want to stay home like an old fuddy-duddy, car in the garage, all things locked, sleeping in at every opportunity.
my first step was to put squares on it, but the sharp observer will notice that the squares are the same as the ones on my professional site, and that's because they go places that are vaguely related to my teaching or esl in general. i have squares here and also at my grill site.
another truck accident happened near scattergood; this time a single truck flipped and burned, at mile marker 257, best i can figure, just east of where delta road crosses i-80. several developments here. i am still tracking down whether the comments of someone i met at scattergood in the eighties is relevant. they said, basically, that ancestors of nixon and hemingway resided in the cemetery; that because of the cemetery, they had move i-80 over; because they had to move it, they had to put a curve in it and run it on a hill; and that it could be the only curve in the interstate in the whole state of iowa. now my guess is that curve is just east of delta road, but stare as i do, i can't pinpoint it exactly. another commenter pointed out that the wind hits the road at a different angle right there, whereas in the entire rest of the interstate the wind comes right at you, right there it doesn't. so it's really a matter of what you get used to and whether you feel like you can keep going 70 on an icy interstate when you have no evidence that the road will ever turn or curve. now in the "mass casualty event" of about december 12, right before my surgery, there were accidents in a six-mile stretch on both sides of the road, somewhere east of west branch, and i never was able to place exactly where. but i'm getting the distinct impression this isn't just an only-one-time thing. fortunately nobody has died that i know of. but commenters did say that west branch was kind of like the befmuda triangle of i-80.
it's very cold here, and the snow blows around a lot, and even lands sometimes but doesn't seem to stick much or make solid ice to confound us on the galesburg streets. i, still being sick and all, get steadily more militantly against any driving at all, out there at night, after ten or before it. just getting tired of it. i want to stay home like an old fuddy-duddy, car in the garage, all things locked, sleeping in at every opportunity.
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