Randomness
May. 22nd, 2024 03:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tiggymalvern
We're in Walla Walla this week on an anniversary trip, and we were just wine tasting at Kyle MacLachlan's winery. We were chatting with the winery lady about his career and got to talking about David Lynch's Dune.
Winery Lady: I never read the books.
My SO: I read them all. I always tell people to read the first three then stop. After that, they're all backstory and world-building without much plot.
Winery lady: (looks confused)
Me looking at this casually dressed middle aged woman who knows about wine-making processes in excessively nerdy detail: It's like the difference between reading The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, if that makes any sense to you.
Winery lady: Ah, I see!
Sometimes you can take a pretty good guess about someone you don't know at all.
Winery Lady: I never read the books.
My SO: I read them all. I always tell people to read the first three then stop. After that, they're all backstory and world-building without much plot.
Winery lady: (looks confused)
Me looking at this casually dressed middle aged woman who knows about wine-making processes in excessively nerdy detail: It's like the difference between reading The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, if that makes any sense to you.
Winery lady: Ah, I see!
Sometimes you can take a pretty good guess about someone you don't know at all.
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Date: 2024-05-24 02:29 pm (UTC)Yesterday we had significantly better weather.Today's going to be gorgeous, but it's also the day we're leaving!
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Date: 2024-05-24 09:41 pm (UTC)The important thing is that people like to *retire* to the sea, especially to this formerly cheap and unfashionable destination. The housing stock is older and when people retire, they don't typically spend a lot on those properties. So the housing stock is either much older there, and in poorer condition, thus needing a lot of work we don't feel like doing, or it's brand new flash retirement style homes which are well above what we need and can afford right now. We'll move there when we're downsizing.
"wow, that's been a slow process"
To be fair, we've been renovating and maintaining two other houses for a while now. And our knowledge of what works has been evolving. It's taken a long time to work out how to beat the climate without just installing aircon in every room, and to convince the SO that some of this stuff is necessary.
I hope you enjoyed the nice farewell weather!
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Date: 2024-05-25 01:12 am (UTC)We had lovely weather for the first half of our drive back, then hit the rain as we approached the mountains. Now we're back at home where it's damp and grey again.