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Ready for battle.

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Teh anomaly of the comfortable shooter's boots.

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After getting dropped off by my aunt, and helping my cousins out of the car (they are both four, and were going to a party.) I began to set off. this view is that of me looking out from the awning of a hotel in Hayes valley.

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This is the door of the hotel.

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What's this?

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Unpleasant suprise. sorry.

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Onward, down the street in the same direction.

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I decided to follow the woman up the street for a bit. As long as you are far enough away, most people don't care.

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But, alas, I am suposed to go to get some free delivery double decker busses! I cannot follow her.

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After turning left I see this. So interesting.

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But the magic Z is telling me to turn left again! Alas, no free double decker buses.

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Again, I follow her.

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I spoke to a man for a minute. the guy was cool. He's on the right, in the glass. He told me to go into the art gallery, which was awesome. If any of the stuffs still there, go. Now. Go.

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I walk onward.

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I love Vespas.

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Onward more.

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Onward some more.

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The woman leaning against the hedge was talking very loudly on her cell phone. It all had something to do with a love triangle, and her boyfriend sleeping with someone. It all sounded like an episode of "all my children".

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Civic center is an interesting hypocrisy.

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I remember having to go to a boys chorus concert when I was in second grade. It was for my friend David, who had to sing a bunch of dreadful Christmas songs. I lived.

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The woman in the picture had a very funny walk. Sort of like the weird dovening sneak walk that Elmer Fud has.

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We like your bike.

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Apparently, there is only one way. I was conformist, and followed it, for lack of a better way.

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It was unbearably hot that day. I was sweating like...someone who was sweating a lot.

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I followed the one way again.

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Past grove street. Flip through these next few fast. It'll look kind of cool.

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Another, gratuitous and semi similar picture. Huzzah!

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The guy in the picture complained about me having his picture, but was in to much of a hurry to check if I had actually deleted it.

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Shadow portrait 1

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Shadow portrait 2

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Entering the garden of neoclassical architecture.

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Lions...

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Tigers...

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Bears OH MY!

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It would be funny to wear one of those as a hat. I think Mojo Jojo did it in the powerpuff girls movie. I don't even want to know how I remember that.

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Mostly out of the woods. I started following the man in the top of the picture.

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There the man is again, in the center.

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Again. I'm in front of the opera house, by the way. (I think it was the opera house.)

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There he is.

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I decided to leave him alone. He was boring, anyhow.

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One second left. I ran.

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Forward...

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Instead I turned left. The runner was actually really nice. She said hello to me.

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Perspective sure does look kind of weird on city blocks.

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Chipped:paint as city hall lettering:government.

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I'm afraid of people who search you. Then one of the cops gave me an angry stare. I didn't go in. Perhaps another day. Definitely another day.

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Onward through the masses.

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Turned right.

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I love flowers.

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I love how the go with the parking sign.

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I want to write "A" on that sign. Then dance there all day, while listening to Weird Al.

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Follow follow follow.

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I bought a soda. As much as I hate the Coke company, for some reason their sodas are good. the guy at the stand was nice.

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Another one with better focus.

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I love this picture. It's just such an imminent epic failure.

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My destination awaits me in front of me.

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When I was sitting there, drinking my mass produced carcinogen filled soda, All that I could think about was "Is this what the future holds?" City hall in the shape of a coke can? A coke can monument next to city hall? Everyone drinking coke? Consumerist nightmares? Perhaps. Perhaps not.

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The ground was hard. The coke was disturbingly good for some reason. It wasn't even imported from Mexico, which is the usual requirement for good sodas. They are almost always Italian or Mexican.

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This is the cold hard facade that runs the city. For some reason I'm reminded of the book "Transmetropolitan". In that book the police have giant gauntlets and giant shields that say "SUBMIT NOW". Look it up. Good graphic novel.

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I saw this guy. He was sort of disdainful of everything around him.

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And then, a few feet away from him, were these two. The woman was speaking in gibberish, ranting and raving about something. It was kind of disturbing.

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They are enthralled by the building. Typical tourists.

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I was trying to get the last drop. Seeing if I could deny fate. I couldn't.

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thus, all cans end up just like this. (by the way, I didn't litter this.)

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A big stone head sits accross from city hall right now. Typical governmentally approved art.

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A better picture of the head.

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The head is flanked by other sculptures.

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When I saw them they seemed bored.

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The right side of plaza.

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For some reason this reminds me of a head with really insane hair.

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Another head with inane hair, this one obfuscated by two people. How interesting.

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the faceless creepy woman.

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Past the shoulder of the weird sculpture with no face, we see someone with a face that is past delirium.

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The people in the right were getting together for some sort of treasure hunt arg thing. At least, that's what I thought they were doing.

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The other side of the plaza had statues too. I unfortunately didn't take pictures of them all.

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This is the outer area of the main library. There area always people here, smokeing, drinking, whatever. they always give you weird looks as you go in.

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Nobody ever really thinks about what this means. And what is means, well... it's a cigarette butt. And it's in the middle of an otherwise featureless area. It's an oasis of trash in a boring landscape. Let's make things interesting.

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I remember doing a perplex city puzzle about this thing. the answer was "LL".

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Governmental father, son, and holy ghost.

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That police officer was very nice. I've seen her a couple of times. All times she's said hello, and when I asked if I could take pictures in the building, she had no problem with it.

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This is the view out of the children's section in the library, looking to the left. I went in there to find out where Chuck Palaniuk books would be, because, hell, I needed a copy of Diary. They told me to go to the third floor.

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up the stairs.

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Aha! just where you were supposed to be! no defying the laws of physics for you!

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Crappy blurry picture of the masses in the teen center. Nobody ever looks happy in the teen center. Never. Not even when they have copies of Les Misrables.

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I love this wall. It's all of the old card catalog that the library used to use. And, they turn it into a cool finish on a wall. Epically awesome.

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In my elementary school there was a woman named Mis. Pelsner who we all thought had troll blood. Seriously. Complete with the bad tangled haricut. (for all of you who don't get that, find someone who did, and punch them for being total geeks.) for some reason this woman made me think of her. She was a lot nicer than ms. pelsner.

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I enter Stygia. It was really, really cold.

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We just need them to read Anna Karenina. Then they'll cheer up.

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yay. We have a mueral that was obviously created by someone who really, really thought that the overuse of the word "Teen" makes the adolescent mind interested.

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Booooooooooks!!!!

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Crappy booooooks!

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Comic books.

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Great. Super hero crap. (Zot? where are you?)

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Zot! It's the plummer! I've come to fix the sink! Probably a half a person got that.

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Onward! For Sparta!

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Down the stairs, to the pit.

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I love the shadow of the window. I love their choice in logos.

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Random man!

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Must follow!!!

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Gone. :(

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The hold shelves.

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The AV center! (Got a copy of Chuck Palaniuk's lullaby.)

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Up the stairs!

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I decided to take a picture of myself for some reason. Nto only do I look retarded, but my hair has a stray bit that looks as though it is coming out of my nose. Ugh.

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Two horseshoes, bits of building, and tiles. As was said by Rune Bellock (I am probably grotesquely misspelling) "if I bury this watch in the desert and leave it there for a thousand years, it goes from worthless to priceless."

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Once junk, now treasure.

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The four displays, only some of which I photographed. I'm glad that they have these here.

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Out on the street. I love this city. Such a combination of a million micro-cities.

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Let them eat potato chips.

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The people in hte center of the picture were discussing very, very strange things very loudly.

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Off to the other side of the street.

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I want an Italian soda. I hate Starbuck's, but it's all that's around.

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I go in and I take a picture. Then the guy starts nigh on yelling at me like I'm an ax murderer.

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Well, I don't want an Italian soda anymore. That guy in there was really, really annoying.

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Our beloved icon.

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I settle for the only good soda that they have in Walgreen's.

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Walking along, out of the store.

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along longer.

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Mine soda is empty already!

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Only in transmetropolitan.

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Our government likes to be grand. How can you justify to be grand when people are starving?

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Atop a metal grate. I thought that it looked cool.

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I kind of like this one better for some reason.

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this was awesome.

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Alas, I have almost no idea about what it is.

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It's art. Don't argue with me. Just because you have a trashcan there doesn't mean that you can put the trash in it.

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I wish I liked most neoclassical architecture.

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My sister has concerts there every year. The inside of the building is really cool.

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sometimes I try to instill meaning unto this. It usually doesn't work.

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I love this spot. I don't know why.

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More recent cars suck, and we all know it.

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When I was little, I was always confused by the "ugh".

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Perspective is an interesting thing.

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Evidently, there is only one way. I followed it.

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Accross the street.

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Gotta gough.

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Fell sideways.

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Well, I don't need to park.

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Eh. It's more interesting this way.

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Onward.

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Two seconds. Can I make it?

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I did. I'm tired of Goughing. I keep going the way I'm going.

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Well, god hair isn't that appealing.

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Chemicals are. This is Isotope. Best comic book shop in the history of forever.

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The outer façade.

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Isotope rocks. Who else has an Astronauts in their shop?

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And toilet seats. Lots of toilet seats.

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The toilet seats originated with an artist friend of jame's getting really drunk at a party, and went into the bathroom. He graffiti it.

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And the best part was the toilet seat. So, whenever an artist comes into the shop for something in store...they are forced to draw on a toilet seat.

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The light here is cool. The woman in there is annoying.

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I almost got run over by that car.

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across the street again. I felt like it.

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I like how the house and the trees look together.

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This tartine sucks. Go to the one near dolores park. Eat too much.

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Past French American. I really don't like that school. Well, they hate me there as well.

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The guy in the picture thought I was stalking him. He talked to me, and I explained that I was working for the Phsyoigraphical unit of SFØ, which meant that I was doing research.

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He stopped caring. I always feel unsafe under scaffolding.

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Damn you racism! Forcing the need for us to reduce you!

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The one thing that would have made the day better would have been Frank Chu.

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Postal trucks: They're out to get you. It's all a conspiracy.

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I decided that I needed to run for a bit.

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Running.

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Running when I took this, although you can't tell.

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I don't know why this is sideways, but I am too lazy to change it, and almost too lazy to type this.

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I found a mural. Donky Kong FTW!!

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I love this mural. I remember when I found one of those controllers in the basement, and used it as a weapons system for my spaceship, aka the couch.

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This is the mural across the street. I think I may like it more.

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The shadow is me.

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The shadow is the tree.

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I should be able to come up with a joke about this.

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We need to like them more.

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And thus ends my Derive.