Thing 83

83. Visit Rock Creek Cemetery

I had July 4th off from work for the holiday. 6of8 suggested we visit Rock Creek Cemetery. As it was one of my things, I was all for it. It required me waking up before 7am on a holiday, out the door before 8 to get there around DC instead of straight through where the streets were blocked off for festivities. But it was a great visit.



This is a cemetery with headstones dating back to the 1700s through today. It's tucked away in a small spot but it's like the TARDIS--bigger on the inside. I also loved the diversity of headstones--quite a few in languages I couldn't read. It was filled with a wide variety of markers, mausoleums, columbariums (my new word of the day!), sculptures, tombs, even a water lily pond. We spotted a few notable people, but didn't spot Upton Sinclair or Gore Vidal & partner.

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But I did get to see quite a lot, including a few snarfs. And now I know where it is and where to go to park if I want to go back.

Thing 18

18. Complete Wreck This Journal

I did a page today and made some progress on a few other pages. I really don't want to just sit down and do more than a few pages at a time because that's no fun. It's no fun just to quickly blast through all the puzzles in a book, and it's the same here. So I'll be doing it in bits and pieces.

But I DID also go through and cross off all the pages in the book that are blank. For example, on one side of the page it says to rip the page out and make a paper airplane. The back of that page is one I numbered but is un-usable at that point and is blank anyway. So in my list of pages 1 through 184, I crossed off the pages I've finished and the pages that are blank and not exercises (making these with a B next to the number so I can differentiate from the completed ones).

Pages done today:
9. Poke holes in this page using a pencil
21. Scratch using a sharp object
29. Glue, staple, or tape these pages together (unfortunately, I did this one and didn't realize I'd glues it to a page which I will need to rip into strips. Oops. So I'll probably have to either rip both pages or unglue it, rip, and then re-glue it. This teaches me a valuable lesson about reading both sides of a page before doing it. But, for now, it's definitely glued

Progress: 41/184