I live here

So jes and I have this whole bit where we live here.  And it's good for 101 purposes, mostly when we want to get pizza hut or whatever.  The point basically being that we are on the road for so long we can't use vacation thinking anymore, you know make every minute count explore the local culture etc because we would like die.  Like we need a different rhythm to last a year with it. 

So I had a great I live here moment this morning.  I was supposed to catch the light rail into Walthamston station, and I was walking there when passing the bus station I saw the 275 bus approaching, that goes to Walthamston.  Which I also know, with my mind. So I hail it and hop it.  You know, like someone who lives here.

We're hitting Hampton Court manor today - Henry 8 house.  Yesterday I spent like literally 6 hours in the British museum.  So you know I've done like almost half of one floor.  Sigh.  I don't even read the plaques it's endless. 

But I did hold another half a million year old hand axe.  The guy said it was older than homo sapiens, he thought homo habilis. 

And you know I went through the famous Egyptian wing and some of the Greek and all the Mexican stuff and it's nice they give a sort of shout out to the amateur collector intellectuals who started the whole concept of museuming with private collections. 

And then I went to the cirque de Elois.  This whole day on my own and the night as well.  I saw years ago cirque de Elois show Rain, which was themed on the mythology of water and so powerful, still my favorite cirque ever.  This one was like urban hip hop themed with a bit of a west side story, construction and building landscape themed.  This is less jacked into my personal passions but still the almost plot having choreography makes the cirque performance just that much more powerful.  And they resist the tropes of strong man act etc in favor of a whole show with a whole cast.  Loved it. 

Oh and did I say we scored Margaret Atwood tickets and that I went to a book store and found that David Mitchell has a new joint out? Life is good.