It might be my browser settings; it might be WP 2.7; it might be cosmic rays. My WordPress log in gives me a different configuration everytime I log in—sometimes my log-in name with no password, sometimes with the password, sometime the admin log-in with or without the password, sometimes my log-in in lower case, and sometimes a totally blank form. It doesn’t matter whether I check the Remember me box or not.

Homebody

I have just realized that, save for a handful of business trips and visits to my Mom’s, the farthest and longest I’ve been away from NYC without my partner in the last ten years was an afternoon drive to Sandy Hook, NJ, in the off-season, maybe five years ago.

I used to just get out of the house and go. When I lived in Austin, I would get in the car and drive, usually south and west into the Hill Country or farther. I once considered driving to El Paso, but got incredibly bored by the time I got to the Pecos River and turned around. I spent the night in a cheap, but clean motel in Laredo, then drove roughly parallel to the Rio Grande, stopping at roadside picnic benches that warned of rattlesnakes. I stayed in the car.

When lived in Marin Co, CA, and my car was much more feeble, I could at least drive to the beach, if I estimated that I could get there before the car overheated—the joys of limited income—if not, I could take a bus into SF.

When I moved to New York, when I had a few days off I would occasionally buy a train ticket and go. Washington, New Haven and Boston were good expeditions; Springfield, Mass, and Poughkeepsie less so.

I should get out more.