Day 3

Wrote down meaningless things in my notebook. I made some t-shirts on CafePress.Com.


Derek explains how ArchEnemys, a fetish clothing store on Water Street in Augusta Maine, got its start as a comic book shop.

Earth Year 2008 Day 2

Lithgow Library & Reading Room serves Augusta Maine on the second day of Earth Year 2008.


Duct Tape Auto Body Repair:Will snow cause an increase in light fender benders and slide-related collisions? The duct tape industry would like to know.


Removing snow from Augusta Maine, after midnight.


The temperature is low, -2.


I stop at the store on the way home.

2008 day 1

The first thing I ate in 2008 was a hand-fried bacon quesadilla.


One New Year's resolution is never to eat at China King.


Augusta Maine crosswalks.


Looking east on Western Avenue in Augusta Maine.
Damons Subs, Augusta Maine.


Sea of Snow: Maine is a sea of snow. And they plow it all onto the sidewalks I walk. Woooo!


Sun Tan City and Pine State.

Last Day of 2007, Augusta Maine

Homeland Security Maine: Steve Arsenault, a Neighborhood Watch commander, patrols a neighborhood of west Augusta Maine. He said the Neighborhood Watch Program, founded by the National Sheriffs Association, now falls under the Department of Homeland Defense.


"In weather like this I try and do my best to help people out in the snow."


Neighbors: Some neighbors relaxing in the snow.


Father Curran Bridge: The Father John J. Curran Bridge is kind of creepy. According to a recent newspaper article he is being accused of sexual abuse, postmortem. And had been accused several times in his life.


Augusta Maine 123107: A view of Augusta Maine from the Father John J. Curran Bridge, Dec. 31, 2007.


Sidewalk Snowblower: A sidewalk snowblower cleans a side of the Father John J. Curran Bridge in Augusta Maine.


But the sidewalk snowblower is needed on Western Avenue on the other side of town. On Western Avenue in Augusta Maine they plow all the snow onto the sidewalk making it impassible without snowshoes. I watched this guy walk the edge of the road (as I once had to, and the next day got snowshoes), an only resort if you are walking with no snowshoes.
The plowing snow onto the sidewalk is so bad, I even had to walk in the road a few times on the way to work, and I was wearing snowshoes.



Hard boiling eggs.


Snowy trail up the embankment to the Kennebec Journal. The path I take to work.


Maine Capitol The beginning of 2008!

Signs of the Times from Augusta Maine

Arby's Ball &: What used to be the "5 for $5 Deal" at Arb'ys, which included 5 roast beef sandwiches for $5 is now $7. They still have Jamocha shakes. And most recently free WiFi.


2-Pack Special: Two packs of cigarettes are now more expensive than 2 pizzas.

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I no longer have a bicycle. I do have snowshoes. I do have a bike lock. I do go to the Lithgow Library & Reading Room w/ my snowshoes.


The Snow Polls: I'm sure the snowman to the left is voting for Ron Paul. Is that strange?
On my way home from work I saw him holding a Ron Paul sign. I'm not sure who the snowman on the right is voting for. Neither are they.


Joe Phelan, Kennebec Journal photographer, made sure the papers of Augusta and Waterville Maine had news on Sunday. The wire service was down. Joe, overhearing the problem, requested the master key. Went to the roof. Cleaned the snow off the satellite dish. The news lives another day.

Frozen Bleakness

A horseless carriage.


A flying machine takes advantage of the cold frozen air. Fuel is expensive, and especially flying around. In cold temperatures fuel is more dense, making it cheaper by the gallon.


I saw a springtime landscape. A beautiful springtime landscape.


Fallen apples in the snowfall.


A police truck in Augusta Maine.


Development on Western Avenue Augusta Maine, 122807


You won't believe your eyes.


Wood chip truck, Augusta Maine.

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Grate! Just Grate! More snow. It doesn't bother me much but it really makes it a hazard getting around whether you're driving or walking. While walking, it is more dangerous you will be hit by a car.
A couple inches of snowfall seems like nothing anymore. Please send more snow! How will I be inspired otherwise? (Plus the mercury levels are driving me crazy.)


Domino's Pizza is the only place that delivers past 10 p.m. on weekdays in Augusta Maine. I've ordered from there twice I think. They have anchovies.

Shut-in

Moscow on the Hudson:


I hardly left my house for 3 days. I celebrated Christmas on my phone in the frozen bleakness of Maine. (The weather was actually sunny and mild.)
I watched movies from Lithgow Library & Reading Room. Including Moscow on the Hudson.

Charlie Wilson's Christmas Special

This Christmas I went to see the movie Charlie Wilson's War. It was cool because I've been to Afghanistan and I've met Charlie Wilson before. (I told him my unit found a crate of Stinger missiles that he sold to the Afghans, in the hangar at Kandahar International Airport.) Here's a picture I took of Charlie Wilson and John Murtha in Washington DC, March 2006. They mention John Murtha once in the the movie. And learning from the movie, it seems he actually held a large part in funding the covert war in Afghanistan.


Here is a scene from the movie. It's shaped like Pennsylvania, but definitely Afghanistan.


I took pictures at a party in his honor at the Rayburn Building on Capitol Hill. This photo is the real Charlie Wilson who is played by Tom Hanks in the movie.

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Leaving work, I feel like an explorer.