thinking i had no assets to liquidate when i realized i was staring at one. television. the 70″ behemoth cost me $3k but goes for about $1.5k today, if craigslist and ebay postings are to be used as a barometer. it’s the sort of thing i would be fine with parting with, as i can always get something like it again when i start making money. i feel whiffs of regret at letting an electronic chess set go some months ago, as it was closer to unique than anything else i have that would be worth anything. i like the TV, though, so it’s staying for now, but it is definitely a credible and acceptable (to me) thing to do.
walked about 9 miles today, according to phone’s GPS, which i think lies. sometimes you have to stop taking pictures so you can actually look at things and, in the case of calvary, hear it. it is quiet there, except that it is not. noise from two major highways is constant. it’s even worse at New Calvary, where i happened to end up today. but at Old Calvary there are certain spots inhabited by acoustical phenomena which allow one to hear sounds from the Kosciuszko Bridge deflecteed off the tombstones of Section 1 West. this occurs at a specific spot in the valley of mausoleums, that valley crowned by the mighty Johnston Mausoleum. when you look toward Manhattan from certain spots at Calvary it looks like the island of skyscrapers is drowning in tombstones. from other vantage points it looks like it is rising up from all that. today the tombstones felt alive to me, like they were playing games.
i entered the Chapel, turning back around when i noticed that a man was in there by himself, looking odd in a way i can’t quite articulate. i thought may have been a priest (the weekly mass was held earlier in the day) but favored him being something else. he looked nervous, rail thin, and dressed in what looked like an $8 suit. the chapel itself gets tepid praise in some circles but i find it to be dingy, musty, and uninspiring. i have never attended the weekly mass there, i guess i should.
realizing that line breaks did not work as i had thought they did i am trying to manually insert paragraph breaks. should check the settings for the email gateway, maybe it is expecting raw html.
coolest thing i spotted today was the Kosciuszko rising. the new Kosciuszko, that is. the rickety, noisy, downright frightening bridge of today is finally being replaced, the new bridge just a few dozen feet to the east of the current one. really looked cool.
exiting 3rd calvary en route to 2nd and then Queens Boulevard a gentleman in an SUV asked if i knew where Section 48 was. that’s in Old Calvary, i replied, adding that i had no idea how to give good driving directions from where we were, as i am not fluent with the street names and numbers such that i could give good directions. he and the passenger with him seemed nice nd sane, and after he drove off i kind of wished i’d invited myself into the back seat to guide him there. i had no reason to be going the direction i was going so heading back to whence i came would have been all the same to me.
the stiff winds and dramatic cloud formations had me feeling like i was at the beach today. Florida beach. thundrestorm clouds.
