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BlackBlade
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I'm driving down to San Diego on Friday to help my brother get situated. I'll be flying out Sunday evening. If anybody in the area wants to meet up for lunch/dinner, let me know.

Also if you want souvenirs, say so here.

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Dan_Frank
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Down to San Diego from where, out of curiosity?
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quote:
Originally posted by BlackBlade:
Also if you want souvenirs, say so here.

What on earth is a San Diego souvenir?
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PTSD?
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If you want to hijack a trolley and ship it to me, that'd be super. Thanks! [Big Grin]
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quote:
Originally posted by SteveRogers:
If you want to hijack a trolley and ship it to me, that'd be super. Thanks! [Big Grin]

What? I don't even...
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quote:
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PTSD?

I know I will be sorry for asking, but what tangible form would that take?
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Samprimary
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Well, you could always frame your first rent bill.
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BlackBlade
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Dan: We drove down from Provo, UT. We made the drive in about 10.5 hours.

Man, the weather here is awesome. We can't wait to nail down where to eat dinner.

A framed rent bill isn't a bad idea. We about puked when we filled up our car here.

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quote:
Originally posted by Dan_Frank:
quote:
Originally posted by SteveRogers:
If you want to hijack a trolley and ship it to me, that'd be super. Thanks! [Big Grin]

What? I don't even...
It was an attempt at humor. [Smile]
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Do they have trolleys here? I thought that was more a San Fransisco thing.
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This website lead me to think so prior to my request for a trolley, but I also admit to having confused San Diego and San Francisco for some reason. So, not a perfect joke. [Smile]
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BlackBlade
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So, I came here with the intention of finishing The Beyonders and The Hunger Games. Instead, I reread Enchantment by OSC. I think I may actually be coming out of the malaise for books I was in.

Color me pleased.

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"What on earth is a San Diego souvenir?"
"PTSD?"
"I know I will be sorry for asking, but what tangible form would that take?"

Hijacking a trolley and shipping it to SteveRogers.

"Do they have trolleys here? I thought that was more a San Francisco thing."

While SanFrancisco has steet cars (electric buses) and cable cars, never heard of any citizen referring to either as a trolley.
For the past ~30years, the Trolley has been to SanDiego what BART is to the SanFranciscoBay area. And both its tourism board and public transportation board have been pushing for the Trolley/SanDiego pairing to match the automatic mental pairing of the cable car with SanFrancisco since the first proposal to build a light rail trolley system there; well before any serious preliminary architectural&industrial designs were submitted for examination, before the proposed routes were anything more than a vague "from downtown to the border".

[ April 29, 2012, 01:50 PM: Message edited by: aspectre ]

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quote:
Originally posted by aspectre:
Hijacking a trolley and shipping it to SteveRogers.

Who exactly is going to be traumatized by that? The shipping clerk?
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Samprimary
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I once got a boat. That was similarly traumatizing.
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I certainly wouldn't be traumatized by receiving a trolley; I would be overjoyed. I've often thought it would be really cool to convert trolley or train cars into housing.
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quote:
I've often thought it would be really cool to convert trolley or train cars into housing.
On the contrary, you would boil in the warmer months.
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I'm not sure if you're pointing out an actual downside or making a pun of my use of the word "cool" in the original post.
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No reason he can't be doing both.
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SteveRogers
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I suppose that's also true. For what it's worth, I do understand that converting train or trolley cars into housing would pose some practical issues.
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Such as people trying to board your house whenever it stopped.
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Well, my hypothetical intention hadn't been to keep it on working tracks but to have them relocated someplace else and essentially "remodeled" for full time living as applicable. Obviously, this would be an expensive and impractical endeavor. Just something silly the gal and I thought would be cool if possible. [Smile]
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There's a train or trolley car somewhere in old Niwot which has been converted into a house. I'll see if I can't go find it and take pictures.
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That's so cool. [Smile] I wouldn't ask you to go out of your way to take pictures of it just for this, but the offer is very kind.
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