Things I enjoyed this week (May 17th)
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  By George Mandis <george@mand.is>
  https://george.mand.is/2014/05/things-i-enjoyed-this-week-may-17th
  Saturday, May 24th 2014

<p>Per usual:</p>
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<li>Getting out of town and going <a title="Backpacking in Olympic National Park" href="/2014/05/backpacking-in-olympic-national-park/">backpacking in Olympic National Park</a> was a treat. The <a title="Elks, bears and strippers oh my" href="/2014/05/elks-bears-and-strippers-oh-my/">bachelor-party shenanigans</a> were fun, but mostly I enjoyed the order and balance such a <a title="Moving at different paces" href="/2014/05/moving-at-different-paces/">shift in pace</a> brings.</li>
<li>Speaking of shifts in paces, I rode the train up to Seattle as part of that excursion. I'd forgotten how much I enjoy <a title="On trains" href="/2014/05/on-trains/">traveling by train</a>.</li>
<li>Apropos of nothing, I rented <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045152/">Singin' in the Rain</a> from the <a title="The madness of the movie rental biz" href="/2014/05/movie/">movie store</a> I basically live next to now. Sixty-plus years later and the humor still holds up. It was also funny to watch and think how the transition from silent film to talkies had happened less than a generation ago at the time. Things change swiftly and often; our fears, reactions and challeneges in reacting to these changes, as human beings, don't. Or, perhaps, change more slowly.</li>
<li><em>Clean water</em>. We've been put on alert to <a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/lake-oswego/index.ssf/2014/05/lake_grove_water_customers_adv.html">boil our water here in Portland</a> the past couple days. I'd gotten used to purifying the stream water on our backpacking trip... in a way it's like I'm still camping! Or like I'm still traveling, like I was last year, when I bought <em>way</em> more bottled water than I probably thought I would in my life.</li>
<li>Baths. This is still only a week or two in my new place and I'm realizing, for the first time in ages, I have a bathtub in my apartment. Much nicer to come home and slip into than a shower after a long run.</li>
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