Ok, so the exclamation marks started to wear on me.

Wednesday, March 22nd

Yesterday it was rainy in the morning so I decided it was a good time to hunt down the laundry and catch up on some writing.  I got to capture these little gems on the way back.

This was the last picture I took with my former phone.  I was eating lunch at the time.  This isn’t the actual original picture, it’s a reenactment.  The original left with the phone.  Oh, did I mention that someone else has my phone?  You can’t make phone operators idiot proof.  I laid it down on the bench and rode away from it.  By the time I realized it and went back, it was gone, and not turned in.  A mistake that was very costly in time and money.  My lingering self recrimination is not only my absent minded mistake, but my laziness with passcodes.  In the past I’ve put a passcode on, and then gotten impatient with it, and taken it off.  I can’t help but feel that if I would have had a passcode, the person might have turned it in instead of keeping it.  Who knows.  That happened last Friday, so Saturday was spent (read that killed) by a trip to the nearest (not very) AT&T store.  I spent a bunch of my travel money so I might have to think about the impact to the rest of the plan. (sigh)

Last night we had torrential rain.  The campground is full of little lakes.  A lot of tenters had to roll up their sog and retreat.  The forecast says rain/snow mix for the rest of the week.  Same for all of next week up by Tahoe, so I might also be re-thinking pressing farther north.  I’m going to hang in here at Yosemite regardless, but then might return south to lower elevation and work my way into Utah from the southwest.  Hmmm

Other than that, I am well and hope you all are too.