Driviness

Sorry everyone, I've been very negligent of this blog this year. But I've been poked and prodded and so I've decided to have another go at it.

I'm not going to try to backtrack to all my news since my last sparse posts, but let's see, recent news...

The most recent is that yesterday Ron got his driving license. Huzzah! Now the two of us can leave the premises without having to find another adult willing to take us. I have to say, living at Red House is the most remote location I've ever lived--UCSC's campus included--for all that it's fifteen minutes drive from one of the biggest cities in America.

Did you know that San Jose is ranked as the 10th largest (most populous) city in the US? That it ranks above San Francisco now (in 12th place)? Crazy, huh? And it seems even crazier that Atlanta, which always felt huge and sprawling and inescapable, is way down at 33, right above Fresno (35) and Sacramento (36)! And Glasgow, which always felt like a relatively small city for all that I knew it was the largest in Scotland--after all, it didn't have much competition really--is actually about the population of Boston which is 21st in the US ranking. I suppose it just shows how subjective a feel of a place can be. So the smallest place I've ever lived till now was actually Aptos (a tiny 9100 population) while commuting in to Santa Cruz (still small at around 55,000). Los Gatos is technically between the two in size at 29,000 but we're up in the mountains, just a bit too remote from the town proper to actually walk in. Actually, I could walk in, but I'd have to walk along the Old Santa Cruz Hwy which is a bit too hair raising for my taste.

Oh well, it seems duty calls and I'm not to get any further today. Perhaps I'll have time to circle back around to my own live next time. (You see my problem?!)