Super Long Weekend...

and I am going from the American home of Volvos to something entirely different.  Oddly, I still have to pack, though a good amount of stuff is already laid out, and just needs to be deposited into my back pack.  Since it isn't Europe, I am debating on whether to bring the laptop, but it could be useful to burn pics to disc since there will be a bunch of digital cameras, and this will make sharing simpler.

I don't know if this weekend things here will be updated, or if they will just sort of stay here, with pictures of Volvos past to greet the stumblers who find it.  The rubble in the background used to be a derelict gas station, but has been in its present state for a good six months.  It has me wondering if the short little building which was to be built is actually going to be built.  The Googie style building not far from this above pile of rubble has apparently lost what little protection it has and will soon resemble this, without the vintage Volvos.  I do with the people in charge of buildings would look at things aesthetically.  While the Googie building is nothing truly special, what is taking its place, if the new neighbors are any example, will be worse.  One of these condo building built with some vision other than dollar signs would be nice.  Then again, the housing market going bust here about now might do the trick, too., though a boarded up Googie building, like we have now, won't be any sort of improvement, nor will a rubble pile.