Halloween and Blog Progress

31/10/2010

Well, progress is a little slower than anticipated - looks like I'll be adding to this record for a little longer yet. Makes sense that I didn't get much of it done on the road. It's mostly picking through and prepping photos that takes the time.

Also, if you're checking back later for articles of interest, I thought I'd flesh out my tag system:

• Anachronism (like Halloween in this case) - a post containing description of something occurring on a particular day that doesn't fit in with where I'm up to in my travel record
• Travelogue - a basic "went here, saw this" post. Generally, if I did something on a specific day it'll be either this tag or the first.
• Curiosities - may be standalone or alongside a "travelogue", but basically saying "I noticed a funny thing today".
• Eng - some form of relation to engineering
• Notes - a post that exists purely to list/itemise disconnected observations or "Curiosities"
• Meta - a post about the blog

So... Halloween. My first real experience of it, save for the time a couple of groups of kids showed up at Drummond St and nobody knew what to do. Chris said "Wait, I just might..." and then disappeared, reappearing several minutes later with a tin labeled raspberry drops. Upon the triumphant opening of the lid, it became evident that the sweet red spheres had undergone significant polymerisation. With the Drummond St residents looking somewhat dismayed, the contents were still offered to the semi-patient kids somewhat sheepishly. I forget the resolution however.

But this time, it's real American Halloween! Our lovely landlords/upstairs residents suggested we might like to try our hands at pumpkin carving. What follows is a brief photographic depiction of the process.

Intro

Essentially, due to the fact that traveling doesn't allow much time for writing and recording I took brief notes daily I hope to decompress them here.

First up is California...

(Oh yeah, and click headings of traveling posts for google maps recordings. You should see a tinyurl on mouseover - not this post.)