Archives #021
Monday
– photo by Mitch Waxman
The situation continues to improve here at HQ, after the surgeon who restored my broken ankle removed the hard cast and replaced it with a walking boot/brace. I’ve still got a lot of pain occurring from the aftereffects of the surgery, which is more of a dermatological problem rather than an orthopedic one, but there we are. At any rate, another archives post greets you today, with all posts having originally been published on this date in their respective years.
2012’s offering on the 4th of November was ‘Sinister Swamp,’ which continued the post Hurricane Sandy survey of Newtown Creek which I was conducting with Hank the Elevator Guy.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
I’ve been asked, multiple times, over the years about the odd titles I’d assign to these posts. Literally, I had a book of Lovecraft short stories on my desk and I’d just flip it open. Whatever two word phrase my eyes randomly landed on would become the title of that days post. If you know what Lovecraft named his cat, you’ll understand why I had to be a bit more careful in title selection than just randomly grabbing lingo from the old boy. There’s a vast amount of ugly embedded in Lovecraft’s writing.
2015’s ‘abetted by’ discussed a few things observed during a Working Harbor Committee excursion, and laid out what the difference between a ship and a boat is.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
I’m managing to get up and down the very stairs which felled me, drive the car for short intervals, and do basic tasks like making a sandwich. This walking boot is a ‘get out of jail’ card. I’ll be able to vote tomorrow, which I’m very much looking forward to. Nice thing about living in a swing state is that your vote actually matters.
2020’s ‘stolen fearfully’ showed part of a night time pandemic walk which I undertook in Astoria. Man, I miss those deserted streets.
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Very glad to hear you are recovering! Thank you for including your 2105 “abetted by” post, it brough back memories. My last college summer job was for the Army Corps of Engineers in lower Manhattan, I think in what is called the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building. I was trained to estimate the volumes of material dredged from the bottom of NY harbor based on bottom depth surveys conducted before and after the dredging operations. I got to ride on one of the dredgers during its normal ops. This was in 1969.
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November 4, 2024 at 5:40 pm