mistressofmuses

On Tuesday, we decided that while we were out in the middle of nowhere on the eastern plains, we might as well do something else before we made the long drive back.

There was a historic cemetery that wasn't too far away, and the trip out that way would also take us past something we'd noticed on our way to the Sand Creek Massacre site:


A derailed section of train!



At the time, we were wondering if perhaps this was tornado or wind damage, since it looked more twisted than crushed.

Nope! Apparently it just... fell off?

It was carrying wheat!

(At least some of what looks like sand or dirt blown up against the cars is probably wheat.)

This article has even less info, but some cool aerial shots.

While a couple articles talk about the derailment, and mention the cause being under investigation, I did not see any followup. The derailment also apparently happened on August 20, so it had been sitting for a bit.

Five more pictures:

Many springs in the grass.

I was glad we got to stop and get a closer look, though at the time we didn't know any details about what had happened.

We spent a good chunk of the day cleaning up some stuff in the apartment. Mostly Alex, but it's mostly his stuff, so... But there were a couple boxes of my stuff, books and things, that needed sorting through.

The apartment complex said they were going to resume doing apartment inspections this week, though we've not been given a date or anything yet. Those had been suspended for Covid reasons, but they sent out a notice about doing them again...

Of course, that notice came before two MORE notices last week: one stating that masks are required in common areas again, and a second stating that all common areas other than the laundry rooms are once again closed indefinitely. So, who knows if the inspections will happen or not. Even so, nothing wrong with trying to get it to something that's not completely embarrassing to think someone might see.

Also did a grocery trip.

I woke up stupid early, and spent the morning actually listing out the stuff we'd considered doing this week, and costs if applicable. Still not quite a PLAN, exactly, but it's a start.

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And someone in a group I'm in shared a link to Mystery Flesh Pit, a fictional horror worldbuilding exercise about a former National Park that was built into a living alien thing below ground.

I dig the hell out of epistolary storytelling things, which is very much what this is. I spent about half an hour reading through it so far (so there's plenty I haven't read yet), but I really enjoyed what I did get through.
There are a couple posts in particular that I really liked:
- one that purports to be a scanned copy of a services guide from a resort that was located in the park. A lot of it is pretty standard tourist hotel guide stuff, but the little bits of info warning about the potential risks of ignoring safety protocol are super effective atmospheric horror imo
- one that is a scan of a "Wildlife Safety" brochure that was provided to brief visitors on what to do if they encountered any of the mysterious alien fauna in the pit. The language mimics official park brochures I've read pretty well.

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Took a nap ill-advisedly late, but feel better after that.

Still have to figure out what exactly we're doing tomorrow... it may depend a bit on what the air quality is like (today was pretty good, so a shame it was the "do the adult responsibilities shit" day.)

I liked this episode a little more than the first one.

I was aiming for (and started doing) a Monday/Thursday schedule for posting, but I think Tuesday/Friday may be more doable for me. We go out on Sunday and Wednesday nights, and generally I'm not up early enough the following mornings to get a post posted.

Solid film, even if it wasn't incredibly revolutionary.

This is one of those silly campy bad horror movies. It's definitely not a good movie, but it's kind of fun to laugh at.

It's just a seriously bad movie. No really. SO BAD.