My first "nor'easter"

02.28.2005

My first full, uneventful (which is good) day in Wilmington ended. While Andy was doing his corporate thing, I slept in. Then puttered about the apartment, played w/ the cats, enjoyed the wifi, and waited for him to come home early from work because of the "nor'easter" blizzard.

I've discovered that "blizzard" in the mid-Atlantic East Coast means "flurries" in Michigan. There were 2-3 inches of white stuff down by the end of the day. But schools were closed, businesses let out early, and people, apparently, went home to "wait it out" while the TV news kept giving frequent updates. Did you catch that? 2-3 inches! Then again, these are the people that didn't "go West". Or something.

Andy & I trudged two blocks in the snow (he explained that people here don't shovel their sidewalks, and the city doesn't plow) for burgers & pints at Catherine Rooney's. And had a conversation about our lives, whether capitalism as we know it is being reshaped by modern technological forces (i.e. the "open source" culture), some feedback on the new electoral system design I'm kicking around, and whether or not the pub's waitstaff hated Andy (he's always a bit paranoid about that). Then off to rent DVDs to pass the time — since, you know, nothing was open due to the "blizzard".

We rented a Korean film, Tae Guk Gi, the story of two Korean brothers caught in the madness of the Korean War. Cinematically, it's like Band of Brothers or Saving Private Ryan, but w/ a lot more glimpses of the political context, and the effects of the war on the civilian population. Highly recommend.

Also, an email from someone I grew up w/ in Bolivia, 20+ years ago, who found this site via the six-degrees-of-separation-machine that is the internet. The world's smaller, and smaller.

Tomorrow, I've to call Amtrak & see if they found my return ticket, which I left on the train.

Posted by Miguel at 11:54 PM

Comments

Tae Guk Gi, another one of those war stories that I cried buckets while watching. Esp that last 5 mins when the young bro (now an old man) found a pair of glasses amindst the skeletons and recognised them as his brother's. Tragic.

Posted by: Stephanie at March 1, 2005 01:30 AM

Go ahead, make fun of those of us in the East. You should go experience a noreaster in the metro area around DC. Every time there is a noreaster a "national emergency" is declared. Everything in DC closes down. First in line is the federal government. The streets are empty, no cars, no people and all that with three inces of snow......

Althoug, we had our share of three feet of snow. Let me tell you, it is not fun to dig yourself out of so much snow.

Of course, you must be used to all that snow. I had a friend from Boston. He used to make fun of us and our panic at the snow.

Posted by: MB at March 2, 2005 02:07 PM