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  • Exit 82 Centrailia

    Exit 82 Centrailia

    Name an attraction or town close to home that you still haven’t got around to visiting.

    Centralia Washington

    We drive up and down I5 between Portland and Seattle often. It gives us ample time, especially me, to make up stories.

    Plummer Lake is a sorry lake with a Shitz Creek like hotel on its bank. I tell my wife we should do an anniversary there.

    We could go outlet shopping, listen to the roar of I5 and then eat at Dennys .

    Centralia Pennsylvania

    Not to be out done I’ve never been to Centralia in Pennsylvania. It’s a dirty stinking town that’s been on fire for my entire lifetime. Bill Bryson talks about it in his book “A Walk in the Woods”. Here’s a clip of the beauty that is Centralia Pennsylvania.

    Key aspects of Centralia: 

    • The Fire: An underground coal seam fire has burned beneath the town since 1962, creating dangerous gases and sinkholes. 
    • Population Decline: The population has dwindled from over 1,000 in the 1980s to just a few residents today, with most forced out by eminent domain. 
    • Ghost Town Status: Most of the town’s structures have been demolished, leaving behind empty streets and a surreal, smoky landscape. 
  • Sing It Loud

    Sing It Loud

    List five things you do for fun.

    On the fifth day of Retirement
    my true love sent to me:
    5 empty notebooks
    4 miles of running
    3 sets of racquetball
    2 blank canvases
    and an hour at the library.

  • This Basic Concept

    This Basic Concept

    If you could make your pet understand one thing, what would it be?

    I speak to my pets in German as they rarely correct me. This concept here seems so easy to understand, but I can’t express it in any language.

    It is easier to make the bed without them in it.

    She thinks she is helping, but she is not.

    Sie glaubt, dass sie hilft, aber das tut sie nicht.

  • I have A first name and it’s spelled

    I have A first name and it’s spelled

    Write about your first name: its meaning, significance, etymology, etc.

    Because I’m in a lazy mood, I’m not going to look up the etymology of that commercial. I believe it was for Oscar Meyer wieners. Me not being a consumer of hot dogs I will set that aside as a cute little advertising thing from the 60s.

    My First Name is Kenneth

    And I don’t use it often. In the writing world and academia I am K Mark Schofer and for most other things in life I’m simply Mark. I dropped the first name Kenneth at the end of my undergrad at Penn State University. Because I did emerge a new person dropping bad habits and picking up a lot of good ones.

    The World of Forms and Unique Keys

    There are a lot of places where I’m Kenneth. Government agencies, my birth certificate and all my criminal records have the name Kenneth. Well, I don’t have a criminal record but still there are spots of bother to act with. I think they make it through an airport security seamlessly. Once in a while, it confuses them. That works well if I want to sneak something into a weird country.. It’s a nice distraction.

    Ebobisse

    It is my cat’s first name. We call him Bobo. The people at the vet just can’t pronounce it. Somehow, all the records indicate my first name is Bobo. I’ve tried to correct it many times and they never get it right. Apparently, we have the same Social Security number.