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The Pace of Lompoc


Snails on a Cactus
Originally uploaded by VagabondJim

So yesterday I rose at the crack of noon-- actually 11:30. And, like all of last weekend hopped in the car to head to Taco Loco #2 for some of the world's best breakfast burritos.

The camera came with me, as it will pretty often going forward. Whilst waiting for the burritos I wandered to the end of the parking lot. It was filled with prickly pear cactus. 20 bad pictures later I discovered that there were snails on several of the cactus. 1 bad picture later I had a shot of them.

I tend to crop pretty severely and that's what made a bad composition into a reasonable photo like this one.

Anyway, "finding snails crawling on a cactus while waiting for a late breakfast of burritos" kind of strikes me as representative of one of the gears Lompoc runs in. (The other is the frenetic destruction Janice manages to get me involved in when she tears down a wall to remodel. Me with a pry bar, a hammer and covered with dust and sweat is for another post down the road.)

Last night lying in bed, I blurted out -- apropos of nothing, that I was not having a breakfast burrito today. That would be 5 consecutive weekend breakfasts from Taco Loco....truly loco. Of course...today I had a burrito from Taco Loco #2 for breakfast. That type of thing strikes me as pretty typical of Lompoc, too.

6/10/07 - UPDATE

Another weekend in Lompoc...2 more breakfasts of burritos. Nor, really -- don't have a problem; I can quit any time I want. I swear.

6/19/07 - UPDATE

The streak ended. Saturday was the usual. Plus, I tried a few bites of a chorizo burrito -- that didn't work for me. (I prefer Spanish chorizo to Mexican and good Linguica to either.) But Sunday was just Burger King drive through as we ran errands. Oh, that we had chosen to keep the streak alive...Silicic's streak is in tact; she had the left over chorizo one later Sunday.

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Jesse said…
I find that declarations rarely work out and I usually regret making them at some later date. I would vow to never make a declaration again but I would surly go back on that too.
June 3, 2007 at 7:50 PM
Anonymous said…
Much of your blurting is apropos of nothing.

The pace of Lompoc is slow and steady - it's my pace that's often frenetic :)
June 4, 2007 at 11:57 AM
dkearns72 said…
wasting away in burritoville is an all-time great tag.
June 5, 2007 at 12:16 AM
SilicicAcid said…
Nothing wrong with breakfast burritos every weekend. I could eat breakfast burritos every day without a problem. I've been known to take breakfast burritos camping and reheat them over the fire making the tortilla all golden brown and slightly crispy. Mmmm.... :)
June 10, 2007 at 6:09 PM
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