Emma the Baroness and I checked out Botanica outside of Oceanside near Vista so she could take pictures, in her former wedding coordinator way. I wanted to see the lay of the land, figuratively, as in we’ve got my side of the family flying in with “delayed reunion” in everyone’s mind.
“The Tau of Steves: What You Don’t Know Could Fill a Book”
“5” Steve Smith, 30, Stevie Nicks, 72: “You’ve been unaware of the subtle pressures around you that were influencing you to be one way and not another. But something happens today to wake you up and help you better understand the dynamics affecting you.” Gemini
Hi and welcome to Saturday’s Episode 22 in Season 3 of “My Paradoxically Normal Year” on this 3rd day of April in the spring of 2021 — which is a three-year examination of how bits of wisdom changed during the “normal” pre-pandemic year and then in the pandemic year, and now months after.
Previously from Season Three, the Paradoxically Normal Year
S3 E23 — Free from the Pile of Rubble in Your Brain; S3 E22 — What’s the Experiment Got To Do with the Exodus from Barb’s Bunny Ranch?; S3 E21 — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and My Curiosity Whisperer Walking a Yip-Yippy Dog
Related from Season Two, The Pandemic Year
S2 E24 — Working Remote from KnowWhere Atoll; S2 E23 — Gaping Loss No Amount of Mourning Will Heal; S2 E22 —Paranoid Rose Review and Traffic-Copped Check Out Lines; S2 E21 — Cycles of History Rhyming with Endlessly Disruptive Rhythms?
Related from Season One, The Normal Year
S1 E24 — Day 24 of My 1-Year Experiment; S1 E23 — Day 23 of My 1-Year Experiment; S1 E22 — Day 22 of My 1-Year Experiment; S1 E21 — Day 21 of My 1-Year Experiment
Context
Where will they stay?
Vista?
Oceanside?
Carlsbad?
We chat up Laura.
Emma the Baroness wants to see where the bride and bridesmaids will hangout. What about the bar? The reception area? The photo background for photos?
I’m asking about lodging nearby.
We get the text.
Shaggy and SLO Girl just met the realtor, and are now on Pacific Coast Highway in Oceanside coordinating with us for lunch.
I’m really feeling grateful for CarPlay so I can touch the map Shaggy sent and directions show on the dashboard display from Botanica to the restaurant.
Funny how with coronavirus restrictions still in place this restaurant doubled or tripled their seating are under a large white tent covering their former parking lot.
SLO Girl says this place checks most of their boxes.
Shaggy’s feeling like they haven’t physically seen any Zillow places they’ve monitored from San Juan Capistrano and the referred real estate agent can’t cancel their Padres game Easter present for her boyfriend.
We plug in the map directions and tag along with Shaggy and SLO Girl for an inspection of the house on the hill overlooking a distant hill like at their SJC apartment with a view of the ocean.
A converted 1-car garage into a man cave means up a steep driveway they’ll have to park his dark green 4-Runner and their newly broken in van and her car where the asphalt meets a dirt section instead. The property extends down a hill, which might be where they want to grow crops in a much larger area, if they had access to it.
We agree the place needs work, not having been spruced up for sale. The realtor used to live three or four houses further up the hill and describes the neighborhood as a mix of seniors and new couples and families with kids.
Where will they keep Mo? If he gets out he’ll either scamper down the backside to a street or down the driveway like he could in San Juan Capistrano where they live up the hill just a block from the original Mission in San Juan Capistrano.
This place has the same vibe, which is why Shaggy likes it.
And it meets the real estate criteria I sent him. Camp Pendleton and the Pacific Ocean in Oceanside butte up against upper scale neighborhoods in Carlsbad on the hill across the way.
Evidence
Random ones that make me want change my sign.
Hey there Smithy and Stevie. I’m not sure what to make of your Holiday Tau, do you get it? Unless those pressures come from having to tell all those relatives coming from Florida, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois and Indiana expecting Jazzy and Delta Girl’s wedding to me reunion on the edge of California’s Pacific Ocean near Legoland that their Rugrats exceed the number of invitations and cost too much to be included at the wedding?
“5” Steve Smith, 30, Stevie Nicks, 72: “You’ve been unaware of the subtle pressures around you that were influencing you to be one way and not another. But something happens today to wake you up and help you better understand the dynamics affecting you.” Gemini
Okay, this is definitely about my fellow Scorpio (couldn’t Zahn’s TauBit of Wisdom delivered the same message?) and lover, Emma the Baroness as she feels anxious about the first real estate investment Shaggy and SLO Girl may make which increases the distance, maybe doubling the miles, between us.
“5” Steve Howey, 42: “You want to feel another person’s pain so they won’t have to. Scientists, spiritual gurus and co-dependent experts agree that it’s not possible. But can they prove it? Your solution may be counterintuitive or ill-advised, but it’s yours.” Cancer
What’s Going On …
Literally Bottled and Set Adrift from KnowWhere Atoll
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- @KnowLabs suite of 36 digital magazines jumps from 7650 to 7742 this week organically grown followers
Foresight
Quality-of-Life
Long-Form
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- “Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge” by E.O. Wilson, an entomologist who studied colonies of ants for their insights. But didn’t stop there, according to The Wall Street Journal, “A dazzling journey across the sciences and humanities in search of deep laws to unite them.”
- “True Believers,” the novel by Kurt Andersen (which seems to precede Fantasyland)? I like how he goes back and forth from now to the ‘60s in which the main character is writing a memoir, but needs “Okays” from her friends who had been hiding a secret for 40+ years that could ruin their careers? Like, what’s my equivalent?
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Inspired by: Holiday Mathis – Creators Syndicate
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