653 miles, 11.5 hours. Our little Echo got almost spot-on book values the whole way at 34 miles per gallon. And the MacBook did well, too: on battery, I roughed in 19 pages of a paper I’ve been trying to write in fits and starts since this summer. (Mind, I did over half the driving, so that wasn’t 12 hours of battery.)
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And then I got home and took this sound-effect quiz. Why? I don’t know. I missed a few, which disappointed me. Clearly, my sound-effect-fu is wanting.


Y’know, I’ve known for years and years that you and I had bizarrely parallel educations through college, and yet seeing Columbia Station mentioned anywhere online, much less on the blog of someone I know from somewhere else, still seems peculiar.