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Ft Worth water

3:58pm CDT Tuesday 22 October 2002

Janette and I just played around a park for about an hour; she is so much fun! We got some barbecue sandwich and banana pudding from an inexpensive small restaurant with outgoing friendly woman behind the counter who said I ought not climb on the statue of a bull out front, for the artist might come and take me away in irons.

Janette got a picture of me nose to nose with the bull. I had to look up for this; it was a tall bull.

The park beckoned for we couldn't find the art museum. Climbed across a bayou on large rocks designed for that purpose. Blocked the water between the rocks as best I could to recreate the flooding Lisa and I did in Memphis. Not as spectacular for there were 20 other rocks between which the water could flow.

Climbed a set of stairs leading up to a roadway about 40 feet up. I was surprised to find no fence or railing keeping me from climbing up the outside of the steps. I straddled the handrail as I climbed up (left leg on the inside where legs belong and right leg on the outside where birds belong)

Got partway up and was thrilled to see that I could climb into the support structures underneath the bridge!!! So simple and begging to be climbed, I was amazed there was no graffiti all over the underside there. I climbed around to various spots under the bridge and Janette took pictures.

Walked around some miniature park railroad tracks while Janette giggled as I recited Sir Mix-A-Lot's "Baby Got Back." She's funny funny funny.

Saw a cat out by a concrete picnic table, just chilling, and then we saw two more cats beyond him. Then we saw a cat bringing food over to the cats. I was surprised that he left plates on the ground with the cats as he walked back to his car, but then he got on his bike with a can (of cat food?) so I guessed he was off to feed more cats and then would come back and pick up the plates once those cats were done eating.

4:32pm

Holy cow. If I could design the perfect water park for me, it would be a lot like this one in downtown Fort Worth. Imagine basically a funnel with water pouring into it, but the funnel is actually stepped and relatively easily climbable. Some parts less steep than others, and some so steep I couldn't climb up them against the flow of water cascading down. A big pool in the middle (I'd make it so the pool was swimmable and really deep and relatively accessible from all (steep) parts of the funnel so I could slip and just push backwards really hard and land safely in the pool) with a whirlpool in it as the water got sucked down. Wow wow wow. How fantastic!!!!!

I climbed down the cascading slopes and back up the others and ran around the perimeter and tried to climb the steepest ones but couldn't due to their angle and the water pouring down onto me, effectively dousing my shorts and shirt.

and there were like only two other people there! How come all of Fort Worthians aren't there all the time? That place rules!!

Reading to Janette

10:44pm CDT Tuesday 22 October 2002

Janette made bread tonight and while it cooked, I read to her most of the first 6 chapters of Stranger in a strange land, which I have never previously read. According to the preface, this version is from the original transcript, not the one that was originally published in 1960-something.

Pretty good story.

I appreciate that it was written over a long period of time. That helps me have hope for The Past is Now.

The Hunger

2:07am CDT Wednesday 23 October 2002

Janette and I watched The Hunger tonight, starring David Bowie, Susan Sarandon (sp) and someone else. Vampires who grow old and sexualized violence and a monkey eating its mate. And slow during the non action parts.

zzzzzz

3:19am CDT Wednesday 23 October 2002

Tired tired.

I seem to have gotten stuck reading news.google.com and eating vanilla ice cream. Stupid brain sucking and brain enhancing internet and yummy sugary ice cream.

Got to brush my toofies and go to bed.