magicbeans. nothing if not awkward.

yesterday's calls to flea markets led to a field trip today. dave.z had written down a bunch of directions but hadn't really distinguished between or labeled them. so we set out without a very sure idea of where we were heading.

after an hour and a half, a handful of wrong turns, and two sets of gas station directions later we arrived at one of the worst flea markets we had ever seen. it was big, and has been around since 1974, but there was virtually none of the old junk that you'd expect to find at a flea market, and just lots of cheap newish junk that no one really wants. there was one booth with lots of old records, some nice stuff, but most of it was mildewed and such, i don't have a working record player, and i'm not going to be bringing any vinyl with me to italy.

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a very small sushi night.

and later on the phone with daniel. computer stuff. the future of the internet. of linux. perl. the next big thing. i don't really have anyone around here to talk computers with, so it was nice.