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Today was San Jose day for Becky and me! We drove out to visit a friend of ours, and it was great!

Well. Aside from the 2 hours in the car there and back, of course.

We stopped by the Winchester House. Didn’t take the tour; none of us had $25 to blow today, but we walked through the gardens and Becky and I bought books.

Sarah Winchester was nuts. Brilliant, but nuts. I mean, that house is amazing. 160 rooms. Stairways to nowhere, doors that open outside the second floor, and ½ inch deep cupboards…it’s truly something to see. And to keep the place from ever being completed, she ordered half the house boarded up so the ghosts of those the Winchester rifle killed would leave her alone. That’s…just weird. But interesting, as was her interest in the occult and the number 13. My lucky number’s 13.

I went through once, years ago. I’d love to go again, especially on a midnight flashlight tour, but it’s a bit of a drive to get out there from here.

And now? I’m crashing. Long day.

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