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Bicycle train ktru

7:20pm Saturday 9 February 2002

Fabulous day today riding my bike around. I'm actually quite tired as a result, and I may not write a ton about it.

Basically I rode to Hermann Park and waved to peeps on the little train, then rode further out Fannin to see the new train tracks for Houston's first mass transit train in a long long time. Fun to ride on the bumpy dirt where the tracks will be soon.

Got an amazing cool picture of the rails all lined up on Fannin going underneath Holcombe.

The rails have been welded together to be hundreds of feet long; I wonder what it takes to coordinate moving them into place??

I found an intersection of dirt at San Jacinto and some other street near the museum and circular fountain at Main St and Montrose.

Same intersection looking the opposite direction.

Banged a bruise into my knee on the way home as I rode quickly through the bumpy dirt on Shepherd. Got a couple of pics of it as well.

The weather was perfect 70 degrees and clear blue sky. Beautiful.

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I'm at KTRU now getting paid to write journal entries, learn Japanese, broadcast the basketball game.

I got to see the super cute Jessi who is in the shift before mine again this semester. Yay!

Oh, before KTRU, I noticed this new concrete base looking thing outside the RMC. I wonder what it will be for.

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After KTRU is ultimate frisbee at UH for the first time in months!

Spots adventure

10:39am CST Saturday 9 February 2002

I am outside now right at the end of the medical building parking lot which is across the street from my apartment complex. I have brought Spot out here for his first walk in a long time - basically since I moved in with Wende in April 2000.

Spot was pretty scared of all the traffic on Greenbriar and I thought we were going to have to abort the mission as he got away and nearly jumped back over the wall into the complex. I caught him as he tried to run past me (I only caught him because he was trapped in a cat sized trough between the wall and the curb of the sidewalk.) We made it across the street and parking lot without further incident.

I told him I would sit right here while he explored around and he ran straight underneath a hedge and has made his base underneath the hedge and a truck parked in front of the hedge. He is 3 parking spaces away from me now, crouched underneat the truck.

I have just written out a simplified version of Little Red Riding Hood for ("Lee-eh") to sign in ASL on the last day of class (our final exam of sorts). Now I need to find a story for myself to sign.

Maybe I'll sign the story of Spot and I that we are experiencing now. Yes. That's perfect.

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As I collected my stuff, I began calling Spot, "here Spot. Com'ere Spot." snapping my fingers and such. I think this made him feel more comfortable for he started to explore more than just the hedge and the truck. Soon he hopped off the curb and visited the building next door. Sniffed around at first and then slipped between the bars of this securely locked gate.

What a wonderful irony. Just as I'm ready to go home, Spot decided to explore some more. He pawed around in the flower bed, and he may have left some fertilizer for the flowers.

I eventually coaxed him out and carried him home.

Once we got inside the complex, he got away again, but only briefly. I hope Spot enjoyed his great adventure!