astercontrol:

hahahah I did it

I did the thing

That I’d been wanting to make sure I did at least once, while I was in Minneapolis


The subtle and stealthily Tron-related thing

i.e.

  1. drawing this design on a t-shirt
me wearing a white T-shirt on which I have used markers to draw the logo of the Twin Cities Metro Transit System. This is the letter T in a circle. The background is a marker-drawn public transit map of the city. It slightly resembles the circuit patterns on Tron's costume. Around the T is written "MetroTransit.org" except that the A in Transit has been replaced with a heart, allowing it to be read as an O if you're looking for that.ALT
The back of the shirt, on which I have drawn a rider on a bicycle with speed lines behind it, and the words MY OTHER RIDE IS A CYCLEALT


2. getting on the Metro Transit bus

me standing at the bus stop, showing off the resemblance between the T on my shirt and the T on the Metro Transit logo on the bus stop signALT


3. going to Flynn’s

me standing in front of a diner with the name FLYNN'S on a big signALT
screenshot of a website indicating the location of Flynn's Eats, at 6600 Penn Avenue in Richfield MNALT


I can testify that Flynns in Richfield MN has

  1. no arcade
  2. hollywood-themed decor with conspicuous absence of any reference to THAT movie franchise
  3. solidly meh food
interior of Flynn's, a very ordinary diner with simple chairs and tables and a mural depicting classic Hollywood films all over the wallsALT
foam container of food from Flynn's, including some slices of French toast and a little plastic cup of macaroni and cheese; also a plastic cup of blue slushyALT

and also absolutely no one noticed what I was doing

but I STILL HAVE NO REGRETS

okay. So.

…A new announcement, revisisting this old topic of Flynneapolis, Flynnesota.

…I have said before that I had moved to California for good, and did not intend ever to move back to my home state of MN.

…This has changed.

Essentially:

I had some health problems (sciatica-related) that caused me to realize that neither the group of people I was living with, nor the healthcare system I had access to in Los Angeles, were in a position to support me in cases of health emergency.

I’m not certain how much better that’s going to be in Minnesota.

But I have several family members there, with access to lots of good resources and an eager willingness to help me get reestablished, so… it looks like probably it will be better, in that regard.

I have lots of complicated feelings about having to leave California.

I hate leaving this lovely dry heat for the icy winters and humid summers up north. And I am realllly gonna miss having this casual polycule of sex-positive roomies, and the occasional nearby Tron geek that I can invite over for rebooty calls in that den of lust.

The only consolation is, homes are cheap as fuck in MN compared to anywhere near here.

Soooo (especially with the help of my mom, who’s got plenty of money and is really excited to have me back home) …I’ll probably be able to afford a house at some point, long before my whole group of roomies could ever hope to afford one in LA.

Annnnd once I have a house… I’m gonna find all the other queer slutty nerds in town who need a house and start building my own depraved commune.

(Hope I can find at least some who are into Tron.)

It’s not gonna be easy, exactly. I’m still gonna miss here, a lot.

But I can adapt to living pretty much anywhere as long as it feels stable. and… as hard as it is, this seems like the best chance at stability.

and it definitely has better medical infrastructure than here, which I’m gonna need if I keep having health problems.

(Though my health problems do seem to stem largely from not getting enough exercise, which is also gonna get better, because I found it lots easier to ride a bike in MN.)

(seriously, I used to commute by bike to work, all winter too! …sometimes recumbent trike, if the ice was bad! it was only the asshole traffic in LA that stopped me.)

(The challenges of lightcycling off-grid were nothing compared to all the Rinzlers trying to run me down.)

(and, yes, the public transit is pretty good too.)

(There’s even a light rail train.)