At  the coast again!
September 16th 2024
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Well I'm at the oregon coast again, cannon beach this time instead of
my typical seaside. This is just a daytrip, so we can walk the beach
for hours and hours before I go off and start the academic year all
proper-like.

I think I'm going to count this as my official ROOPHLOCH entry for
september. I know I technically did it before I remembered solderpunk
was doing his whole challenge again when I wrote from my then
absolutely brand new pocket reform at the local dormant volcano turned
park.

But writing here on the beach and posting feels more in the spirit. I
love that here we don't have private beaches, that it's always public
(although people can still have Private Access in that if they own
property next to the public beach their paths too it don't
automatically become public) which means that we can just walk for
miles and miles and miles.

It's weird, too, the fact that the Urinary leash that I wrote about in
my gemlog doesn't matter as much here because it's a tourist
area. So they *want* you to be hanging out in public for a long time,
using the restroom when you need it, so there are plenty of bathrooms
all around here. I wish city-cities were like this and not just little
coastal spots where they know outta-towners will be hanging out.

As I'm writing this, sitting on a log and covered up like it's winter
but still slathered in sunscreen on my face and hands, my partner tor
is running into the water and enjoying being a part of the ocean. The
mist has made the beach foggy and beyond a few hundred feet everything
is hazy and hard to see, even the giant haystack rocks.

We'll be here for another few hours before we have to get on the bus
back home. Then it's the start of year for me, which if you're a
regular reader you know I've been dreading. I think now I'm starting
to get the kind of anxiety that leads to excitement instead of dread.