Thursday, April 30, 2009 - Pampa TX
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Big sky lunch break, US60 east of Panhandle TX, April 30, 2009
Now to work on sharing my pictures
It's time to get to work. Quite unexpectedly there is a FAST internet connection here in Pampa over Verizon's Extended Network. I've had glimpses of a fast connection occasionally on Verizon's Extended Network but it has been fleeting at best. I get the feeling the network speed gets throttled back as soon as it discovers I'm on as a Verizon EVDO customer. Can that be?
[Time passes] Ok, let's try this. I'm not really happy with it but it will do for a first go.
Night camp
Wal-Mart Supercenter in Pampa TX
Wal-Mart Supercenter Store #600, 2801 No. Charles St., Pampa, TX 79065 - (806) 665-0727
- This store has a nice, level parking lot.
- Verizon cell phone service - Extended Network - very good signal
- Verizon EVDO Broadband service -via Extended Network - surprisingly fast service
- Find other Wal-Marts in the area
- Check the weather here
Waiting
I remember walking in art galleries, through the nineteenth century: the obsession they had then with harems. Dozens of paintings of harems, fat women lolling on divans,turbans on their heads, or velvet caps, being fanned with peacock tails, a eunich in the background standing guard. Studies of sedentary flesh, painted by men who'd never been there. These pictures were supposed to be erotic, and I thought they were, at the time; but I see now what they were really about. They were paintings about suspended animation; about waiting, about objects not in use. They were paintings about boredom.
The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood