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[joebanks]

We are taking a two day trip to West Virginia tomorrow. I've become such a homebody, or an agoraphobe? That going anywhere makes me uncomfortable. But West Virginia is a special case. I like mountains, but not the highways that run through them. Deer are getting frisky and the highways become littered with mangled carcasses; what happens to the vehicles, where do they end up? Trying to make the best of it in a sometimes troubled marriage. Thinking I should remind my son where the will is.

What did Gary Seven say about dying in car crashes?

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[rafqa]

Good memory.

The Beta 5 tells Seven that agents 201 and 347 were killed in an automobile accident ten miles north of McKinley Rocket Base on Highway 949. Seven laments the uselessness of dying in such a manner and asks if the facts are verified. The computer does confirm this, noting that the description of the agent's bodies is accurate.

(Memory Alpha "Assignment Earth.")

Lots of reasons not to want to strike out into the wilderness these days, not necessarily straight out of DSM 5. Always a good idea to remind your kids where things are IMO and a trip is a valid impetus. Is there a destination, or is it just an excursion?

I was on the train through the hills of West Virginia one spring, so beautiful. Sorry about the deer--hope you avoid each other. Cars *sigh* .

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That's where we went, to ride a train. Cass Scenic Railroad. That was good, but there were other weird circumstances. My brother-in-law has life long friends that stay in Cass every year. There was an old company town and the houses are rented out by the state park. We were invited. The bedrooms in these workers cottages are all interconnected like adjoining hotel suites. Our bedroom could not be reached from a hallway, but only through either of the two other bedrooms; it was landlocked. My brother-in-law and I don't have the greatest relationship and I don't even know this other couple; a little awkward.

Unfortunately my schedule always makes things difficult. Most days weather I work or not, I wake up at noon and go to sleep between 3:30 and 4 AM. Because we were planning to leave Saturday by noon at the latest, I didn't sleep well. The drive is five and half hours in you only stop for gas. Saturday night, I try going to bed by 11 PM, barely sleep all night and we are all collectively up early. We go on the train, get back and eat, collectively. I'm so exhausted, that I'm asleep by 9 and wake at 4:45 Monday morning. We have to drive back because I have to start work at 6PM Monday and here I am, my schedule has been flipped twice in 48 hours.

But the train ride was worth it.

[rafqa]

Well, I hope it was beautiful. Fall color viewing? I would hate an arrangement like that--I need privacy and defended space. Those poor people they were built for!

It's really hard to half to change a schedule that drastically. I think there are studies about people who have to rotate shifts, to their detriment. When I'm working, even though I don't work every day, I have to keep waking up at 4:45, and I never get enough sleep. It affects my short term memory.

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between dry weather and the overcast, the colors were not brilliant. Close up in the woods there were bright spots, but I was hoping for brilliantly colored mountain sides and that we didn't have. I did not realize the drought and dry conditions spread that far south of us. Maybe it's the entire east; I'm not sure.

The houses were built in the very early 1900's; they're solid but yes not a lot of privacy. My house had a similar purpose when it was built; it was a rooming house for railroad workers. At least each room has its own access.

I always run into this with medical appointments; anything that has t do with the daytime world. I do not understand the cruelty of a rotating shift.

How is the baby?

[rafqa]

Saw on Instagram--it was lovely, but not breathtaking. When I went through there was redbud and dogwood.

That's so interesting about your house!

Yeah, rotating shifts are crazy, but there were people around here that worked them their entire working lives.

Oh, she's so cute. She's lost most of her newborn dreaminess--very attentive and responsive (even as a newborn, she was pretty alert). I'll send a new round of pictures.