Story of the Day

Well, I am gone again. That is to say, I am away from my home for work again. This time I have returned to the San Luis Obispo of a former life. I am working in the nuclear industry again. It has been less than a year since I last worked in a nuke plant and after working with computers last fall and through the winter I had begun to believe that I would not work in one again.

Alas, this was not to be the case. Although I have had several computer jobs, they have not quite commanded enough for me to give up the money I can make down here over the next month and a half. I won't say that I will not return to a nuke, but it won't be high on my priority list. Of course, now that I am here I will do this job as well as I can.

San Luis Obispo is quite the odd corner in California. It has the coffee and microbrews like the northwest, it has Thursday evening Farmer's Market like Saturday Market in Portland with produce thrown in. It has a thriving downtown so unlike many other California cities. Look at Santa Maria to the south. They gutted their downtown and replaced it with a suburban-style mall. This has not been totally successful for them. SLO has chainstores from malls on their downtown streets. A new theater and store complex downtown seems to be doing very well. The nearest mall is almost a ghost town. Cal Poly adds the college influence to the cowboy, oil, farm and vacation interests here. It's quite an eclectic melange. But because it is not too much of any one of its factors it is more than just tolerable, it is generally a pretty enjoyable place to be.
March 25, 1996