Sunday, November 16, 2008 - Clarksburg WV

Vacant diner under stormy skies, across from Wal-Mart, Hazleton PA, Nov 16, 2008

Stormy weather ahead, Nov 16, 2008, Hazleton PA

This has been a mild fall in upstate New York

The mild fall in Columbia County lulled me into thinking I would escape the east snow free this year. But that wasn't to be. Not quite anyway. Some darned fool had to press his luck and head over the Allegheny mountains today. Ah well, it's not far over those beautiful mountains and my time up there where the rain turned white was short lived and only slicked up the road for a few miles.

Still heading for Kentucky

Tomorrow I'm going to continue on down I-79 to Charleston WV and catch I-64 west across Kentucky. That hopefully will put me west of the cold snap this area is experiencing.

When did Wal-Mart become Walmart?

I guess it didn't. I was going to make the switch but in looking around http://www.walmart.com I find the simplified spelling seems to apply only to Wal-Mart's online presence and on their register receipts. As an old hunt & peck typist (typer?) I was all set to drop the extra hyphen and cap. Darn.

Night camp

Wal-Mart Supercenter in Clarksburg WV

Wal-Mart Supercenter Store #1544, 550 Emily Dr, Clarksburg, WV 26301 - (304) 622-1954

Good level parking
Verizon cell phone service- good signal
Verizon EVDO Broadband service - none but 1x dialup speed is reasonable
Locate this Walmart on my Night Camps map
Find other Wal-Marts in the area
Check the weather here

From Knowledge to Wisdom

Wisdom is a product of a process. This process begins with information, proceeds through knowledge, and through what a less gifted poet, Edgar Guest, called "a heap of living," ends in wisdom.

... Wisdom, when it comes, usually arrives late in life. I've known some people who were wise in their early thirties and others who died old without a clue. Most philosophers were of the mind that a person should be at least forty years of age to have enough learning experiences. Now it seems that it is much too young. The step from knowledge to wisdom is the longest one in a person's life.

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