Sunday, January 18, 2009 - Oliver Lee Memorial State Park, Alamogordo NM
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New soles on the old slippers, January 18, 2009
When I made these slippers 3 years ago I went to the effort of figuring out how to them from one piece of leather and the leather I used (a lightly sanded leather like nubuck) was not very tough. With some patching I managed to get an extra year out of them but they were now way past the need for new soles. Yesterday I put on some tough old horsehide. Gaudy be danged - let them soles LAST!
Night camp
Site 7 - Oliver Lee Memorial State Park, Alamogordo NM
- Verizon cell phone service - good signal
- Verizon EVDO service - very good signal and access speed ( I have to qualify this - during my January 2008 visit the signal and access speed was excellent - in January 2009 it was practically non-existent during the day and slow at night with unpredictable short periods of excellent access)
- Go to Oliver Lee Memorial State Park website
- Go to Oliver Lee Memorial State Park on my Nightcamps map
- Check the weather here
I Mourn the World in Which I Live
And for doing all this I will hate myself. I mourn the world in which I live because for me there is no place unless I compromise. All I can do is gather up the shattered remains of my hope and love and in the debris of the world keep at least one small blaze of poetry burning....
an anonymous participant in one of Murray's Harvard psychological stress tests in the 50's, also undergone by Ted Kazynski