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I took various notes on my PDA while there. Here's my somewhat disconnected ramblings behind a cut.
Coming in on the airplane, salt lying on the ground looks like scattered bits of melting snow.
The SLC airport has a Tombstone Pizza vending machine. It also sells chicken strips and french fries. Was tempted, but they were out of pizza.
I always thought Village Inn was a local family eating establishment, but there's one in SLC, so I guess it's at least a regional chain.
Clearly, Olympic athletes have tougher feet than I do...the tiles in the shower were practically SHARP. Hadda pick up some beach flip-flops at Walgreens. Also got the Burger King Jetfire on Monday (and Prime at the airport BK on Thursday).
Smith's Market is a sort of Super Wal-Mart store in SLC. But my Kroger Card worked there, so I guess it's part of Kroger's bid for global domination. :) Picked up the Hawk/Dove/Wonder Woman JLU figure set there, and a clearanced Acceleracers card game starter set.
The new part of University of Utah is built on land given over by Fort Douglas. Just south of the dorm I stayed in is a museum, that has several tanks, some arty, a Huey gunship and a couple other helicopters.
The entire campus is on a slope. With lots of curvy roads. Walking is really out of the question, took the campus buses all week.
LOTS of built-in sprinklers to keep all the lawns green. But I think there's a student hobby of realigning the sprinkler heads, so that they spray onto the sidewalks instead.
The Engineering, Mining and Construction Building was designed by someone from Lovecraft's Mythos. A maze of twisty corridors, all alike.
I like the Trax light rail running through town. $1.40 for a two hour pass is a decent bargain.
DDR can be an interesting spectator sport if the player is a well-constructed woman. :)
It took me until Wednesday to realize that not only was the lack of oxygen giving me problems (high altitude), but also the lack of CO2. It controls the breathing reflex, and my reflex hadn't adjusted, so I wasn't breathing in enough. I started concentrating on my breathing while walking uphill, and things were MUCH better.
Interesting bit of local news while I was there. On Wednesday, a truck with 35500 pounds of mining explosives called "cast boosters" exploded on U.S. Highway 6. It blew a crater 70 feet wide and 30 feet deep (about 23 meters wide and 10 meters deep, for my non-US readers). This was on a major artery road, plus it took out a piece of the Union Pacific railroad. Glad I was flying and not taking the train...there's a lot of stuck Amtrak passengers.
Coming in on the airplane, salt lying on the ground looks like scattered bits of melting snow.
The SLC airport has a Tombstone Pizza vending machine. It also sells chicken strips and french fries. Was tempted, but they were out of pizza.
I always thought Village Inn was a local family eating establishment, but there's one in SLC, so I guess it's at least a regional chain.
Clearly, Olympic athletes have tougher feet than I do...the tiles in the shower were practically SHARP. Hadda pick up some beach flip-flops at Walgreens. Also got the Burger King Jetfire on Monday (and Prime at the airport BK on Thursday).
Smith's Market is a sort of Super Wal-Mart store in SLC. But my Kroger Card worked there, so I guess it's part of Kroger's bid for global domination. :) Picked up the Hawk/Dove/Wonder Woman JLU figure set there, and a clearanced Acceleracers card game starter set.
The new part of University of Utah is built on land given over by Fort Douglas. Just south of the dorm I stayed in is a museum, that has several tanks, some arty, a Huey gunship and a couple other helicopters.
The entire campus is on a slope. With lots of curvy roads. Walking is really out of the question, took the campus buses all week.
LOTS of built-in sprinklers to keep all the lawns green. But I think there's a student hobby of realigning the sprinkler heads, so that they spray onto the sidewalks instead.
The Engineering, Mining and Construction Building was designed by someone from Lovecraft's Mythos. A maze of twisty corridors, all alike.
I like the Trax light rail running through town. $1.40 for a two hour pass is a decent bargain.
DDR can be an interesting spectator sport if the player is a well-constructed woman. :)
It took me until Wednesday to realize that not only was the lack of oxygen giving me problems (high altitude), but also the lack of CO2. It controls the breathing reflex, and my reflex hadn't adjusted, so I wasn't breathing in enough. I started concentrating on my breathing while walking uphill, and things were MUCH better.
Interesting bit of local news while I was there. On Wednesday, a truck with 35500 pounds of mining explosives called "cast boosters" exploded on U.S. Highway 6. It blew a crater 70 feet wide and 30 feet deep (about 23 meters wide and 10 meters deep, for my non-US readers). This was on a major artery road, plus it took out a piece of the Union Pacific railroad. Glad I was flying and not taking the train...there's a lot of stuck Amtrak passengers.