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Wednesday, December 10, 2008 - Twiltley Branch Campground, Collinsville MS

Water on the floor by the door, Dec 10, 2008, Twiltley Branch Campground, Collinsville MS
Water on the floor by the door, Dec 10, 2008, Twiltley Branch Campground, Collinsville MS

It's a long way to the bath house from here

Maybe half a mile. Certainly farther than I wanted to walk through the woods in a blowing thunderstorm. I was tempted to hunker down here at Site 39 and hope for the best. In the end that's what the other three campers here did but since the Campground Attendant came around to warn us to take shelter an hour or so before the storm I felt I didn't want to risk having him come by at the height of the blow looking for me when I didn't show up at the bath house. So I unhooked and drove over, parked as far from big trees as I could, and ended up staying camped there in the road all night. That gave me a chance to do my laundry this morning before heading back to Site 39.

These darned leaks are driving me nuts

I've pretty well run out of ideas about where these leaks are coming from. I'm collecting my thoughts at A Tale of Two Leaks.

Night camp

Site 39 - Twiltley Branch Campground, Collinsville MS

Skepticism is Helpful

If you want to notice things that seem wrong, you'll find a degree of skepticism helpful. I take it as an axiom that we're only achieving 1% of what we could. This helps counteract the rule that gets beaten into our heads as children: that things are the way they are because that is how things have to be. For example, everyone I've talked to while writing this essay felt the same about English classes-- that the whole process seemed pointless. But none of us had the balls at the time to hypothesize that it was, in fact, all a mistake. We all thought there was just something we weren't getting.

The Age of the Essay, Paul Graham, September 2004

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