After the thrice-accursed dentist, I had to copy another interlibrary loan book that has to be returned, so I rode the bus west to Palo Alto and combined the chore with wandering around the town. Found a nice City Beautiful neighborhood, Jefferson Park, and their version of the Town and Country red-tiled open-air mall; extremely upscale, very weird after knowing the late lamented one in Sunnyvale. It was sad to see how many properties on El Camino in Mountain View are vacant - and unnerving to see how many building sites there are on El Camino in Palo Alto - but I was relieved to see that this is still there.
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