Comments on: The People in Your Neighbourhood http://www.ashleyrichards.com/2006/12/10/110/ Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:44:10 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Andy http://www.ashleyrichards.com/2006/12/10/110/comment-page-1/#comment-3380 Andy Tue, 16 Jan 2007 04:25:36 +0000 http://www.ashleyrichards.com/2006/12/10/110/#comment-3380 Very enjoyable! Mountain View does have its share of characters (other than the prostitutes, which are a new development since we moved away, I guess!). On Saturdays you'll find a fellow stationed outside the rear of the library. He'll be typing away at a computer that's plugged into the library's power supply (not a laptop, a full-sized computer on a cart, complete with a monitor) and you can recognize him by the interesting hat. He's writing his own operating system. Stella started a conversation with him, which is how I wind up talking to a lot of people these days :) Given that MV is in California, you still run into the hard-core granola types. I was on Casto St. a while back (after we'd moved back to Ottawa; I was down on business and feeling nostalgic) and I wound up having a 10 minute conversation with a lady who was trying to save the California forests. As usual I couldn't sign the petition (not being a US citizen) but I did offer up $5 to help out. She even invited me to her monthly vegan pot-luck dinner, but I had to slide out at that point, as I was late for my reservation over at Tomi Sushi :) On the "normal" side, I love the Mexican family that runs Los Charros (the guy with the handlebar mustache is especially cool). Hope all is well for you guys, we're missing California up here! Andy Very enjoyable!

Mountain View does have its share of characters (other than the prostitutes, which are a new development since we moved away, I guess!).

On Saturdays you’ll find a fellow stationed outside the rear of the library. He’ll be typing away at a computer that’s plugged into the library’s power supply (not a laptop, a full-sized computer on a cart, complete with a monitor) and you can recognize him by the interesting hat. He’s writing his own operating system. Stella started a conversation with him, which is how I wind up talking to a lot of people these days :)

Given that MV is in California, you still run into the hard-core granola types. I was on Casto St. a while back (after we’d moved back to Ottawa; I was down on business and feeling nostalgic) and I wound up having a 10 minute conversation with a lady who was trying to save the California forests. As usual I couldn’t sign the petition (not being a US citizen) but I did offer up $5 to help out. She even invited me to her monthly vegan pot-luck dinner, but I had to slide out at that point, as I was late for my reservation over at Tomi Sushi :)

On the “normal” side, I love the Mexican family that runs Los Charros (the guy with the handlebar mustache is especially cool).

Hope all is well for you guys, we’re missing California up here!

Andy

]]> By: heather http://www.ashleyrichards.com/2006/12/10/110/comment-page-1/#comment-2621 heather Mon, 11 Dec 2006 15:44:29 +0000 http://www.ashleyrichards.com/2006/12/10/110/#comment-2621 actually i found that quite nice :) actually i found that quite nice :)

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