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Look at those legs! This guy is so strong he spans two boxes.<br />
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As you can see, there is are quite a few vertical feet between where we were, and the base of the valley. Stairmaster has got nothin' on El Cajon.<br />
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It has been raining a lot due to an El Nino year, so the grass was quite lush. Love was in the air.<br />
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Once we got up at the base of the climbs, a fierce breeze picked up. Hats were donned under helmets, polypro under shells. We layer like champs. <br />
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A few pitches up, that wall below me is just a bit off vertical.<br />
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This pic was taken after I climbed past Ian and his awesome hanging belay. It is looking down the cliff to the valley below.<br />
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We were treated to a lovely sunset at the end of our adventure. <br />
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I like the simplicity and the elemental, almost guilelessness of the shapes and colours. <br />
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Similar vibe, possibly the same artist. It is representative of local banana palms and offers the daytime partner piece to the above shown evening interlude.<br />
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Holy cow! This is a contemporary utility box MASTERPIECE!!! Look at the ornamental framing, the use of bright colours, the fantastic portraits of foul, the perky comb, the festive and impressive overall vibe. Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner. This one takes the cake. Well, the second cake, since the first cake will go to all the utility boxes we paint with the Texas flag. <br />
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It is a fountain in the courtyard of a fancy pants hotel in downtown San Diego.<br />
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Granted, I am not the world's biggest fan of dolphins and swordfish as motifs in art, nor do I tend to adore tall plastic and metal obelisks, and I have a bit of a bias against the Tuscan La Quinta Inn style of architecture, but really. Come on. This is just so very bad!<br />
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I chipped out with this pile in Ian's crib.<br />
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I am certain IQ is sharing in my delight, as rooting for each other and being thrilled with each other's successes is one of the sweet and steadfast cornerstones in our relationship. He loves it when I win win win. <br />
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Nice, bright designs here. I, of course, love the peacock. What is up with that tiger? I think he is mad that he is placed between two things he would love to eat, but can't get at due to his confinement on the box.<br />
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This box is in Hillcrest. <br />
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The damn kids got to this one, too and tagged it. Grrrr. I feel like the tiger in the above depicted box.<br />
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I find it interesting that this box is showing pictograph and petroglyph style images, and that the top of the box is basically a heading for the sides of the box. What is not surprising or terribly interesting is that this box is in a super over-educated white person neighborhood. <br />
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This box shows people hanging out with dinosaurs. I looked around the other side of the box for Pakune and Sleestacks, but they must be on another utility box that got swallowed up by an earthquake or fell over a water fall on a rafting trip.<br />
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Here's a factoid for you - I was a roller skating waitress at a diner for a little while in college. My hair never looked as good as this waitress' hair looks. <br />
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I'm thinking of painting our own utility box. I've studied the great masters of utility boxes. Maybe it is time to venture forth and leave my mark on San Diego. -On San Diego Utility Boxes. IQ and I are thinking of painting one to look like the Texas flag. Actually, I mislead you, my dear reader. We are actually thinking of painting dozens and dozens and dozens of utility boxes to look like the Texas flag. <br />
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You and I both know this is a totally awesome idea.Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18345447471840584043noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726200396267231276.post-7134795430566423462010-05-04T16:31:00.000-07:002010-05-04T16:31:09.352-07:00Today! International Respect for Chickens Day!United Poultry Concerns wants you to stick up for chickens. <br />
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That said, I now present you with even more of my utility box finds.<br />
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This box portrays a rather industrial-looking building with one heck of an antennae, somewhere in front of a mountain range. While this box lives in North Park, I think it is portraying the San Diego East County government building. <br />
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I think the design would have been more strong had they incorporated the safety label into the building itself, rather than design the building around the label.<br />
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This utility box tells the story of the agrarian life on the family farm being encroached upon, divided up, and parceled out by modern life and highway culture. What was once all pastures is now chopped up by highways stuffed bumper to bumper with cookie cutter identical vehicles. The drivers of these vehicles are emotionally stunted by their lack of connection to the land. This fact is symbolized in the art by the lack of any portrayal or depiction of the drivers. The only wildlife are carrion birds.<br />
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While this isn't a utility box per se, it is a street light, and street lights are part of the overall utility infrastructure. It is a stretch, but I'm going with it. <br />
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This very cool looking stenciled bit of art is on the base of a street light outside and Italian coffee shop in North Park where I had a really lousy chai and a really awesome pastry. Anybody know who this is supposed to be?<br />
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Aquatic theme, lots of eyeballs, Mac the Knife.<br />
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Our census worker training sessions met in a temporary building, unironically referred to "The Outhouse", situated behind a union workers' meeting hall. Our outhouse sported dark faux-wood paneling and metal folding chairs which created a cozy rec-room pizza party vibe. The cool vibe almost, but not quite, cancelled out the musty veterinarian office odor wafting up from the wall to wall indoor-outdoor carpet. That carpet really tied the room together. <br />
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When covering a training module regarding personal safety, our instructor gave us the very reasonable guidance to avoid areas that are known to be dangerous or areas we feel could might even maybe possibly be dangerous. Don't go into apartment buildings where the hall lights are burned out, don't go into condemned buildings, don't do your work after dark, don't get yourself tangled up in the fangs of a fierce attack dog. All of these points are valid and reasonable. <br />
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One of my fellow census workers then asked, "As a census worker, can I carry my firearm?"<br />
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Two points: 1) I don't know! <i>CAN </i>you? It is <i>MAY</i> I carry my firearm, little Mr. Poor Grammar Militia Guy! 2) Really?? Are you <i>really</i> asking that question? Why on God's green earth would a census worker <i>need </i>to carry a firearm? <br />
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Seriously, we are counting people in households. We are not on the SWAT team. The gun carry question then metastasized into this fellow informing all of us at census training of our constitutional rights, his concealed carry permit, and the California law that allows all of us to carry unloaded weapons, which we all know are really really useful. This topic was workshopped for a good twenty minutes, handbooks and training manuals were checked and rechecked, phone calls to superiors were made, and the conclusion was reached that since the census training manual does not explicitly overrule our constitutional rights to keep and bear arms, then it looks like we are good to go on the weapons carrying. Good to know.<br />
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One of my fellow census trainees then asked, "What if you go to a door and some guy is killing some lady?"<br />
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Excellent question, to which I ask, "Do you really think if somebody is murdering somebody else they will come to the door to answer your census questions??"<br />
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Knock! Knock! "Hi, I'm Joe from the US Census! How many people are in your household?"<br />
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"Well, it was 2, but now we are down to 1."<br />
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"OK, thanks! Hmm, since you are killing that lady right now, I'm wondering how many people were in your house as of April 1, 2010?"<br />
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"Oh, I see! Since I just killed this lady today, it would be 2 total in household back on April 1, 2010."<br />
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"Thanks for your participation in the US Census! Goodbye!"<br />
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I imagine more gems will present themselves soon enough, and I"ll be sure to tell you all about them.Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18345447471840584043noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726200396267231276.post-76246795609007967852010-04-27T18:51:00.000-07:002010-04-27T18:51:00.551-07:00Tito Gaona Utility Box<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MZKa8BC7kwE/S9OgQFmRJ6I/AAAAAAAABf4/KitMkPqSEIw/s1600/IMG00010.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MZKa8BC7kwE/S9OgQFmRJ6I/AAAAAAAABf4/KitMkPqSEIw/s640/IMG00010.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />
Who doesn't love a circus on their box?Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18345447471840584043noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726200396267231276.post-25912695137052098822010-04-26T18:11:00.000-07:002010-04-26T18:11:00.880-07:00You Can't Hold a Good Utility Box Down<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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While this first picture isn't really a utility box, it is a concrete pylon that has been beautifully rendered into a luscious depiction of California Poppies. The artist's use of complementary colors in delicate, almost pastel hues lends a softness to this hard and dried up corner next to a car repair shop. This photo was taken in North Park.<br />
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Wow. While I do like the multi-culti depiction, this one just makes no sense to me. Is that a piggy bank, or is it a plastic shopping bag? Or the weird love-child of a piggy bank and a plastic shopping bag? This gets the WTF award out of this particular batch of utility boxes.<br />
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The dog playing with a ball is sporting some large and blank Special Moments eyes, while the other dog looks like he is wearing glaucoma glasses and a circus dog tutu-like collar. <br />
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I am willing to be that these 2 sides were done by the same artist who was exploring different techniques and motifs.<br />
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Adjacent to the above pictured utility box we find this other multi-culti family and earth themed utility box. The colors are bold, and all the people portrayed have weird noses and no eyelids (with the exception of the older gentleman in the bottom left of this utility box) yet are cute and not too weird or creepy. The overall effect is a charming and eye-catching utility box. The Keith-Harring-esque style works well here.<br />
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The little angel is chubby, eyelid-free, and sporting quite a leaf. <br />
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While the colours have faded and the details have flaked and weathered a bit, the spirit and joie de vivre of this utility box shines through. <br />
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The fun Vaudeville-ey pictures really spice up this corner of El Cajon Blvd. I do love the curvy dame in front of the mic, and the jester who keeps 5 balls in the air through rain, foul weather, or 148 blearily sunny San Diego days each year.<br />
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The back side sports a grumpy looking Chaplin-like ringmaster, and a little girl with the bunny she just pulled from the top hat. Or maybe she is trying to stuff the bunny into the top hat. One mustn't assume.<br />
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I love this utility box. It could be may favourite on in all of San Diego. I am a sucker for the Vaudeville theme. But, you know, I really love <i>all</i> the painted utility boxes. They may be bush league, but they are a delight. Who would have thought that such a conservative military town would have such an widespread and unsung cultural and artistic bounty such as this?Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18345447471840584043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726200396267231276.post-14843879338756862122010-04-24T20:05:00.000-07:002010-04-24T20:50:56.166-07:00Why oh why am I driving a Toyota?? Pics from the Lowrider Show<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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Why the heck am I driving a Toyota??? It is fuel efficient, paid for, compact, easy to park, and it has no soul. None.<br />
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IQ and I went to the <a href="http://www.chicanoparksandiego.com/">40th Annual Chicano Park Day</a> festival and Low Rider Show. Good Lord! There were panty-droppers everywhere you looked. This is one super awesome event that truly put all of Texas to shame. <br />
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Here are some highlights from what we saw:<br />
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No semi-nude babes adorn the front of my car.<br />
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Gorgeous hood ornament. Do you think I could special-order one of these for my car?<br />
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Sweet paint job on an old caddy is way cooler than my gray Yaris. <br />
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Here is an exuberant, yet not overwrought, art-deco inspired box near Hillcrest. It is caddy-corner from a Starbucks that serves stale cupcakes.<br />
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Here is the back side of the same utility box. I like how they seemed to incorporate the actual shape of the utility box with the tall building motif.<br />
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This box has a nice vibe reminiscent of 70's colour block/flower power pieces. It is simple, has little depth, but dresses up the utility box nicely.<br />
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This box is right outside a school playground in Hillcrest. It looks to me like what a grown-up envisions when they think of art done by kids. It is fake kid art. <br />
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This utility box is also outside the elementary school in Hillcrest. Some not so clever vandals changed it up some, leaving it almost as cryptic as it was pre-tagging. <br />
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What kind of an angry animal is that? The head shape suggest a kitty, but the teeth are not cat teeth. This critter's dentition is totally lacking in incisors or canines, and the whole set of teeth look more like an herbivore's teeth. <br />
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This is the partner piece utility box of the mysteriously-toothed kitty creature utility box. This critter is less fierce looking, and kind of looks like a skunk or maybe a cartoon of a sports fan who has painted their face. The teeth on this one are so indistinct they offer no help in identification.Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18345447471840584043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726200396267231276.post-50091838893944163622010-03-06T10:41:00.000-08:002010-03-06T10:41:17.256-08:00Worst Highway On-Ramp Ever<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MZKa8BC7kwE/S5KYdKIWPBI/AAAAAAAABdw/VX8JEWxnxr8/s1600-h/IMG00220.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MZKa8BC7kwE/S5KYdKIWPBI/AAAAAAAABdw/VX8JEWxnxr8/s400/IMG00220.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>The historic Highway 110/ Pasadena Freeway not only connects our favourite and most used highway, The 5*, with our second or third favourite place to get pie, Pasadena's Pie n Burger, but it also has the most terrifying and ridiculous on and off ramps EVER.<br />
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The Pasadena Freeway was established in the era of the Model T. As an aside, and we do love our asides here at Far Flung, the Model T got 30 MPG. The Honda Civic also gets 30 MPG. Hummers get 12 MPG. Moving on, the 30 MPG Model T also had a top speed of up to 40 miles an hour, which is still a lot faster than the speed of cars on this freeway during morning rush-hour. Back in the non-rush-hour days of the Model T, the road was shared with horse carts, so the car speeds were probably slower than 40, but still faster than today's rush-hour stand-still. Nowadays, highway speeds during non-rush-hour times are usually in the 70's.<br />
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I tell you this not only because it is an interesting factoid, but because it puts some things in perspective. I could go off on a rant about fuel efficiency, but instead I give you this: The on- and off-ramps have not gotten any longer, straighter, or better since the early 1920's. Go ahead and read that again. Given the increased usage and speeds on The 110, it is amazing that length and design of the on- and off- ramps have not changed. <br />
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The off-ramp is about the size and angle of a parking space at the grocery store.<br />
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First off, the word "gizzards" as seen stenciled on the curb. It was not repeated anywhere in a 2 block radius. I checked. <br />
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Might this be marking somebody's parking place? Maybe it is the parking spot of The Gizzard Fairy, that mythical folktale hero who delivers giblets to all the good little gravy making boys and girls of the world? <br />
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Next up on our short tour of text in unlikely places is the stenciled graffiti on the uppermost corner of this 2 story industrial building in Tustin. If you can't read it in the picture, it says "Fart Barf". If that is someone's tag, I am really sorely disappointed in their creativity.<br />
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Finally, we have this concrete lawn pig that has the name "Bobby" painted on it in, after close examination, appeared to be white-out. Maybe the pig's name is Bobby. The flamingo did not wear a nametag. <br />
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Send us your unlikely text in unlikely places, and I'll make another post out of it!<br />
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Happy Groundhog Day, team Far Flung!!<br />
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The prophet has spoken. -Or growled. -Or whatever it is that groundhogs do. Phil has done his job, and seen his shadow. Six more weeks of winter. Here in SD, I guess that means six more weeks of wearing a long-sleeved rather than a short-sleeved T-shirt. <br />
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Your Groundhog Day cards are in the mail (unless we don't have your address, in which case give it to me and I'll send you the best Groundhog Day card you have ever received, designed by <a href="http://www.aristiles.com/">Ari Stiles</a>, graphic designer, yogini, artist and human extraordinaire), and to keep your cyber-experience groundhogged up, check this link for the official <a href="http://www.groundhog.org/">Punxsutawney Groundhog Club</a>. You can watch the <a href="http://www.pacast.com/players/cmsplayer.asp?video_filename=020210_feed_dced_ground_live.m4v">video</a> of Phil's prediction! You can <a href="http://www.mypunchbowl.com/ecards/partner/groundhogday">send e-cards</a>! I, for one, am happy to see they are finally getting on the bandwagon. I've been sending Groundhog Day cards for more than 10 years now, and am glad the benchmark Groundhog Day club is finally getting their acts together to do so, too.<br />
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Spread the Groundhog Day love, and enjoy 6 more weeks of winter!Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18345447471840584043noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726200396267231276.post-86821093368111949722010-01-20T15:23:00.000-08:002010-01-20T15:23:46.137-08:00San Diego Finaly Gets Some Weather!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">For two days now, San Diego has NOT been 70 and sunny. We have actually had a little rain and lots of wind. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Our neighborhood, <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=5091+Niagara+Avenue,+San+Diego,+CA+92107+(Ocean+Beach+Pier+Cafe)&daddr=4765+Voltaire+St,+San+Diego,+CA+92107-1733+(Ocean+Beach+People's+Organic)&hl=en&geocode=FSW48wEd38oC-SHi3iw4IaFjMilFevpkOqregDEYkGtEGMC2HA%3BFZ-38wEdawUD-SHDWQcOawKV8w&mra=pe&mrcr=0&sll=32.769234,-117.250557&sspn=0.081409,0.154324&ie=UTF8&ll=32.747977,-117.251716&spn=0.020357,0.038581&t=h&z=15">Ocean Beach</a>, is a wide swath of beach community butting up on ocean and one side and topped by the San Diegito Estuary. In the past 2 days our 'hood has been transformed by Mother Nature from a picture postcard beachy palm tree oasis into a windswept, soggy harmattan littered with blown-off palm branches and battered by super hight surf.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Our <a href="http://obrag.org/?p=16896">mediocre neighborhood paper</a> has some good photos taken by folks in our neighborhood: </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Shown above is a pretty typical medium sized day at our pier down a few blocks from Far Flung Headquarters. Take note of the cafe on the pier, and where the water is in relation to the pier down below the cafe. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Here is the massive wind and storm swell driving over the TOP of the pier. Take note of pier cafe here.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Ladies and gents, that is some high surf. Far Flung Headquarters is sitting tight, a good third of a mile inland and maybe 20 vertical feet up from the beach. We are enjoying the meteorological variety this is providing. It sure is nice to have a break from the oppressive sunshine and get some gusty, crappy weather for once!</span></span><br />
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</span></span>Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18345447471840584043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726200396267231276.post-79535412552443091532010-01-18T20:20:00.000-08:002010-01-18T20:20:22.833-08:00Where? Right here.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MZKa8BC7kwE/S1UykZncMhI/AAAAAAAABYw/TT2_dnzyh5A/s1600-h/P1161982.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MZKa8BC7kwE/S1UykZncMhI/AAAAAAAABYw/TT2_dnzyh5A/s640/P1161982.JPG" /></a><br />
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Right here. There it is. What, you may ask? Who knows, but it is right here.Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18345447471840584043noreply@blogger.com1