\t\t\t\tSitting on a park bench. I can barely see the words I am typing, on account of the sunlight and glare. I was exiled from the library on account of overpopulation.<\/p>\n
\u201cSitting on a parkbench\u201d was a line my sister used to gross me out, because I knew what came next: \u201cSNOT RUNNING DOWN HIS NOSE.\u201d It\u2019s a Jethro Tull song, Aqualung<\/cite>. I found that line to be repulsive, as were (and are) all things snot-related. All she had to say was \u201cSitting on a park bench\u201d and I would cover my ears and make noise to drown out the sound of her next words, which most of the time she never actually uttered. She didn\u2019t have to.<\/p>\n It is too cold to sit here long. I intend to inspect the hard drives momentarily. Tide is low, so they should gleam.<\/p>\n As a friend suggested last night, it may be that whoever bought my framed prints did so for the frames themselves, which unlike the photos they contain are actually pretty handsome. I don\u2019t care.<\/p>\n I sent a testy message to the Astoria Post. Earlier this week I sent a link to my story about the LinkNYC monsters coming to Astoria. They turned around and wrote a story about it, without even a grunt of acknowledgement to me. I didn\u2019t expect them to link to me necessarily but a simple \u201cTHX!\u201d would have been appropriate. Instead just nothing. And the story was not entirely fact-filled. The comments were in line with my feelings, though. That these Link devices attract loiterers and are almost completely unnecessary. Happy to see I am not the only lowly citizen who feels this way.<\/p>\n \u2026<\/p>\n I was wrong to think they would gleam. I remembered when I assayed the area that I think all 4 of the hard drives landed with the darker side facing up, and that at least 2 of them landed in between rocks, making them difficult to spot. In fact I only saw one. For as certain as I was that I would remember exactly where they were I conclude otherwise, that I might never see more than the one I found today.<\/p>\n I can\u2019t imagine that anyone spotted the hard drives and collected them. I mean I can<\/em> imagine that but it\u2019s almost impossibly unlikely. \u00a0The risk, if there is any, is that someone would restore the drives to use and mine my data, and I have no idea what is one those drives. I think those drives go back to the Vista and Windows XP days.<\/p>\n At the ghetto coffee shop, 5:15 but feeling like the day is just starting. Times flies when you sleep \u2018til 2. Days wrenched asunder of late, not that I was on any kind of 9-5 routine.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sitting on a park bench. I can barely see the words I am typing, on account of the sunlight and glare. I was exiled from the library on account of overpopulation. \u201cSitting on a parkbench\u201d was a line my sister used to gross me out, because I knew what came next: \u201cSNOT RUNNING DOWN HIS […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-text","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-1QW","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}