{"id":2060,"date":"2015-10-30T23:28:42","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T23:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wilkeywhatwhat.com\/?page_id=2060"},"modified":"2021-01-13T02:15:14","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T02:15:14","slug":"madison-redux-2015","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wilkeywhatwhat.com\/?page_id=2060","title":{"rendered":"Madison Redux 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

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MADTOWN OCTOBER 12 \u2013 18, 2015<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n

Perhaps the Sunday evening trip to the casino was a harbinger of impending events. Besides procuring valet parking for Madtown redux 2015. Repeating .40 \u00a2 bets over 2 hours covers the cost with $160 profit.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n

Back at the casino, Tuesday 0430 am, for shuttle to OMG early departure GEG <\/a>to DEN<\/a>, DEN to MSN<\/a>. MSN Dane County Regional Airport formerly known as Truax and a personal familiarity as the airfield also is home to the Wisconsin Air National Guard. Here, in a “huey” \u00a0during the 80s, perhaps “then” a harbinger hint of helicopters\u00a0in my\u00a0future.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n

The #20 with at transfer bus ride from the airfield across the Isthmus, past the capital, past the UW campus, around the University Hospital and Clinics to the West Transfer Point. A slow, perfect passage and a different perspective as a rider. Past, a swirl of layered recollections, old places vividly familiar and new places with discordant disorientation. Now earbuds stream Indie music but a faint \u201cthen\u201d flash of Country Joe’s \u201cGive me an F…\u201d<\/a> blasts from Sellery Dorm speakers. Where once graffiti ed and poster-ed plywood bordered construction, now cranes cast shadows.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n

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Brunch at Mickie’s Dairy Bar<\/a> where a paltry fare provides enough tasty calories to feed most of Indochina for a week. Small circles begin to form where once this was an almost daily \u201cTrek<\/a>\u201d enroute to MGH ER.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n

Onto the campus of UW to the Geology Museum. Because the museum is under renovation, specimens are surrealistically plastic wrapped for preservation and protection.\u00a0There, a chat with\u00a0a\u00a0retired physician and his wife visiting from New York. \u00a0He reminisces the time, here as a student of Psychology,\u00a0The school where\u00a0Harry Harlow<\/a> made fame. \u201cNormal is a setting on a washing machine\u201d.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n

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At NMRFAM<\/a> Mark Anderson takes his time to give a tour, patiently answering what are probably naive inquiries with great geek enthusiasm. The technology within this fascinating facility is, personally, only understood in fractions and fragments. Fractions and fragments is probably an apt description of NMR spectroscopy.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n

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Sitting with a Daily Scoop<\/a> of Babcock Hall at Union South, a gastric nirvana of ice cream surrounded by learning and knowledge , the familiarity of Madtown. Once the union was a\u00a0\u201cTrek\u201d stop to use the free phones, now the smart phone is plugged into a free charging station. Still tumbling spectroscopy, a google of Overhauser effect<\/a> and suddenly a transformation into a student again, this time armed with a tablet.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n

With a sufficient charge, a B-Cycle<\/a> gets charged for a bike ride about campus, up State Street, around the capital, down State Street to the Memorial Union where it is returned at a B-Cycle station. There is an app for these stations, and for Uber <\/a>(\u201ccurrently unavailable\u201d), for bus transit<\/a>.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n

A third visit to the Chazen for the year and incredibly in a true Madison effect, also strolling about the art, the retired visiting physician and his wife.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n

In the East Hall of the Wisconsin Historical Society<\/a> there is John Muir’s Clockwork Desk<\/a> from his days as a student residing at the North Hall<\/a>.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n

The Wisconsin fall colors are in full display the pink flamingos have returned to Bascom Hill<\/a>, Homecoming weekend has brought out all the Badger red and white.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n

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A disorienting walk up State Street trying to reconcile memories (\u201cIs that the old Ovens of Brittany?\u201d) with new impressions: the homeless sleeping in corners while, nearby, phones are charging plugged into street light outlets,\u00a0shadows from new housing structures reflecting gentrification, a “Huey” gunship hanging in the Veterans Museum<\/a>, Forward to the Capital again and like previous visit, inaccessible rotunda, this time under construction.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n

Beer and cheese curds at the Old Fashioned <\/a>topped off with Gangstagrass<\/a> at the Frequency<\/a>.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n

Before departing Madtown, a short wait sitting between Camp Randall and Mickie’s Dairy Bar. \u00a0The circles still spin in this city.
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