postcard-a-go-go!

since i was about 6 years old i've been a letter writer. when i was in college and couldn't afford to make long distance calls that weren't collect, i wrote even more. i bought and used a lot of stationery and postcards. when i got to grad school, not only did i not make phone calls, but my letter writing dropped off as i was busy getting up at 4am to script supervise my friends films. oof.

to get to the point: quite a few of the postcards in my apt i've been carting around for years. decades.

in the last couple weeks of april i learned that the postal rate was going up. at the time i had about thirty 27¢ postcard stamps. i determined to use as many of the 27¢ stamps (and postcards from my stash) as i could before the rate change. by the last saturday before the rate increase i'd written 27 postcards. WOO!

now, i've found i'm kind of on a roll. saturday i stopped by the post office for forty 1¢ stamps (sigh) to continue my postcard binge. i shot myself in the foot in re: depleting the decades deep stash of postcards in my apt, though, when i bought a 20 pack of postage paid Simpsons postcards at the post office. DAMN! it may have been a reaction to realizing that i'd just added 20 more postcards back into the supply that had me sit down and write another 10 cards over the last couple days.

still, i did manage to send at least three postcards i've had with me since the mid 1980's. that felt FANTASTIC! one of them was an aerial photo of the Red Lion Hotel in north san jose. i took that postcard from hotel when i was there ringing in the new year 1987 or 1988. i don't remember the year but i do remember having a terrific time and dancing with my friend walt to a band in the lounge. also managed to use a card i'd purchased at a dead show in about the same time period. it had some very grateful dead related art work on it.

all this card writing has usurped my knitting time at cafes, so i haven't been knitting at all. each postcard is its own thing, so they don't require a continuing attention and focus like a knitting project. timing is good for that kind of activity, tho.

assorted fun facts: weekend cafe total: 5, finished reading paul feig's, "kick me," began reading "wonder boys" again, came home tonight to the neighbors bbq-ing in the courtyard and was met with, "you want a piña colada?"

and now, time for bed.