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It was a good weekend. On Saturday, Ryan and I went out to scope out some moving sales and ended up scoping out a sizeable chunk of the surrounding countryside. The moving sales were almost all cleaned out by the time we arrived in the late pre-noon, but I did manage to score a copy of The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System for $1. We stumbled on a pawn shop on park avenue where Ryan bought a nifty tripod for $10, and we perused posters at a couple of poster stores. From there: to the lake! a motor trip with the newly acquired GTI.

I have to say: Global warming has a lot to offer this city! This weekend was bright and beautiful, with sun and a cool breeze, and if the weather were like this all the time, I think that Rochester might not be the dying city that it is. Up on the shore on a spit between Irondeqoit Bay and Lake Ontario, we peered out towards Canada, and South across the bay (spanned by a nifty trestle bridge), we enjoyed root beer floats at some 'seaside' enterprise specialising in frozen custards.

We had to drive across that nifty bridge, and so we set out on State Route 104 (?), due East... and I have to say, I am incredibly confused about directions in this town, as there are generally no landmarks, and the body of water (invisible from most vantages) lies to the North. The mission: To find a Village, or at least a hill. We did find a giant, solitary windmill and some quaint canalside-villages (complete with bloods/cripps tagging), and we acquainted outselves with the various quirks of the GTI. I suspect that four has some pretty awesome pictures.

It was a good excursion.. the change of scenery was entirely refreshing. I have resolved to Roadtrip next weekend, maybe to Canada or Ithaca. Also I must acquire some fresh corn ASAP, since seeing the fields of it growing and smelling the scent of a barbeque made me pine for some bbq'd corn-on-the-cob. mmmmm. Plus we need the husks to make tamales.

Dinner at Mt. Hope diner. Kill Bill Vol. 2 on campus at UofR.

Today I went out kayaking on Irondeqoit bay with Dana and her sister and her sister's friend, starting with breakfast on Park Ave. It was a superb day for kayaking, and we paddled all the way up Irondequoit bay to the trestle bridge, pulled out little boat out onto the landing (selectively overlooking the 'PRIVATE DOCK' signs amongst the yachts) and restored outselves at the restaurant/bar there, then set in again and paddled back.

Afterwards I met Kris and we went to seek a brewing supply co in Webster.. which was closed, but the owner apparently lives across the street, and sauntered over to ask whether we needed anything in particular.

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Sounds like a lovely weekend. Your escapes make me think about buying a car and getting away more often here myself.

By the way, other than Moe's, is there any good place around Berkeley or SF if I wanted to find some good deals on used books?

here's a partial directory for Berkeley: http://csua.berkeley.edu/~tobin/wiki/moin.cgi/BookStores