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Basement Bird Update
Basement bird ≠ nesting mama. I just saw her.
Good news for the surviving babies; they’d probably starve before I could get their mama out of the basement alive.
Bad news for me: this means there is another opening in the house somewhere. The perimeter is not secure. A new, urgent home improvement project of unknown size, scope, or even location, awaits.
I put a plate of bird seed down on the workbench; I also turned those lights on and all others off, and closed all the other doors. I assume it will find its way in there after dark. The workroom has a door so I can hopefully trap it in there, then come around from the outside door to try to get it out.
This has been a Basement Bird Update.
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Last night during my regular 4 a.m. bout of insomnia I decided to look up where the Skagit River Bridge was. Turns out it spans the Skagit River — or used to span, anyway, from 1955 until about nine hours prior — between Mount Vernon and the tiny town of Burlington, WA.
When I searched for “Burlington, WA,” Apple Maps gave me a random address fifteen miles away from me on NW Burlington Drive, Portland, OR. Not even the right state. I had to pan and zoom manually to find the crossing, which was tricky because in Apple Maps the entire Skagit River is unlabeled.
Google Maps just rolled its eyes, reached out with white-gloved hands to catch its top hat and cane, and found the spot instantly, already showing the missing section of I-5.
I don’t expect Apple to finish first in the maps race, but goddamn it, I wish they’d at least jog.
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