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Cleaning...
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And cleaning now, cutting a swath through the dust and grime, the bathroom, wafts of urea drifting into the kitchen, it's been needing a cleaning for a while.
A couple of months at least...
And so I do it, buy some new light bulbs, it's bright now, and the brightness illuminates the fantastic job I've done, dig out a new toothbrush, a mere 20 minutes worth of work, close the door and set about clearing a spot for the vacuum, there's still a lot of stuff to be sold off, my pack needs to be lightened, the time draws ever nearer...
Pokemon-Go
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Coming home from a day with my daughter, 8:00, stop at the Kalamata Grocery...across the street, in Connaught Park, there's about 50 people standing in a circle, phones out and extended...briefly I wonder WTF, but the penny drops...by the time I get back to take a photo the crowd is dispersing.
It's surreal, this, a whole other level of engagement/disconnect from the world around you...
Pokemon-Go thing, it's quite the new craze, and I'd be curious to try if I were a bit more of a nerd and didn't give a damn about the EULA, (which is terrible, but people have long grown used to the idea of no-privacy). But it's the start of interesting things, Augmented reality, layers superimposed upon layers, there were always these layers, but it demanded a sound and reflective mind to find them, now, anyone with a cellphone and a good data plan can roam their neighborhood catching Pokemon, but there are ever the countless invisible layers they miss...
Diamonds or Not?
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I'm pretty sure I'd recognize this if I found it in my pan. Clearly a diamond. But the vast majority of diamonds don't conform to what we think they should look like, any more than the vast majority of plenty of fish dates even vaguely resemble their profile pictures.
I've interspersed a few pictures of diamonds with some of the rough material I've picked from my concentrates. See if you can tell which are real diamonds and which are rod's imaginary diamonds. (perfect, by the way, for imaginary girlfriends. And at a fraction of the price of a real diamond you can celebrate your commitment to celibacy with the symbol and ceremony you deserve...).
Tiny Gems
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Cleaning up concentrates, with glasses on, picking out a multitude of tiny gems...
Some of the quartzes possible river worn topazes, the abundance of garnets, a few I don't recognize...
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