Some random photos from a week of holiday travelling. As I write this, I’m in Lynchburg, Virginia, as my dad had a doctor’s appointment this morning, and he needed someone to take him.
We had a minor disagreement over when my mom died. It was last Sunday. He told someone at the office it was Tuesday. In the grand scheme of things, not a big deal. I barely know when I am, and it was a confusing and strange few days.
I wrote yesterday a little bit about the trip down. Nothing major, just about seeing the barest sliver of the moon just after sunset as I made my way south to Charlottesville.
I used to go through Charlottesville routinely when going to visit my parents, but the stretch of 29 between Walmart to the 29-250 bypass is just super gross anymore. There was a massive traffic backup to Rio Road as someone was trying to turn into a restaurant in the little stretch of road right before the bypass.
So, random photos!
Saturday evening I attended a “Blue Christmas” service at the Episcopal cathedral in Harrisburg. I’ve gone to Christmas Eve services for about the last decade, but because of travelling this year I don’t think I will, and the “Blue Christmas” service is geared toward people grieving or dealing with losses, so it seemed appropriate.
St. Stephen’s may be one of the most photographed churches in my collection — it’s directly opposite Harrisburg’s baseball stadium on the Susquehanna, and I’ve walked past it countless times (notably, this time in September) — but I’ve never been inside. It felt vintage and smelled old.
There was a Christmas tree at the back of the sanctuary.
One of the hymns sung was “In the Bleak Midwinter,” and I started crying during the singing of it.
Parking in Harrisburg cost me an arm and a leg, though.
I love tking photos of the “LOVE” sign at the Virginia Welcome Center on Interstate 81 north of Winchester.
My “scenic route” took me past Dinosaur Land!
I couldn’t tell you the number of times I’ve been past it on 340, but this was the first time I went past it on the cross road, 522.
There was an impressively lovely Christmas tree at the cardiology center this morning.
The last time I was here was not quite a year ago, a few days after Christmas. It was not a good day. Oh, my dad’s appointment went fine. But it was not a good day.
On the one hand, the WMX window manager for Linux has a super low memory footprint, which is great for a rehabbed Chromebook with 4 gigabytes of ram.
On the other hand, a Chromebook only has one “mouse” button, and WMX really needs the scroll wheel and two mouse buttons.
It’s all a trade-off. And I am famously weird.