Wednesday, 12:20 p.m. Sunny. One car on Level 7:
The mysterious object back where I first saw it:
It turns out there’s a garage rooftop park just two blocks away. I went to it:
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Parking Spaces #90
Meanwhile…
Tuesday, 8:45 p.m.
No cars on Level 7:
Found this here:
What is it? Moved it to get a better look:
Not sure.
Parking Spaces #89: Eviction, Conclusion, Proposal.
Sunday, 10:00 a.m. Sunny.
Total cars in deck: 22.
In hourly spaces: 13.
No cars on Level 7:
The day after Christmas was unusually warm, and I had some time on my hands, so I went up to the roof, Level 7, with something to read. I made myself comfortable on a ledge that probably wasn’t intended for people to sit on but makes a good bench nonetheless and affords a panoramic view north from downtown. The deck wasn’t designed as a recreational space, of course, and it is almost entirely concrete, although its ostensible pure functionality is betrayed by some surprising aesthetic aspects; but because it is virtually never used for its designated purpose, parking — more on that below — it provides an openness and serenity of the sort central Durham lacks. It is a very pleasant urban retreat.
After I’d been reading for about two hours, a guard wearing an Allied Security jacket — Allied is the private company contracted by the City of Durham to patrol its parking garages — emerged from one of the elevators, walked unhurriedly over to where I was sitting, and told me I had to leave.
Continue reading Parking Spaces #89: Eviction, Conclusion, Proposal.Parking Spaces #88
Thursday, the day after Christmas, 11:30 a.m. Unseasonably warm.
I was working from home this morning but the construction project behind the backyard—condominiums called “Eleven Durham”—was very loud. Mainly the noise came from a cherry picker beeping whenever it moved. This is a picture of it from later in the day, when it was farther from the yard:
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I had asked them a couple of days ago if they would mind disabling the beeping function and they said they would disable it, but they didn’t. I wasn’t sure they understood English. I was going to ask again today but it was the same workers on the cherry picker and there was no one else around.
I couldn’t concentrate in my house over the noise, and it was a nice day, so I took my work to Level 7.
That is the construction project seen from the garage. I could still hear the beeping from the cherry picker.
Parking Spaces #87
Friday, 1:45 p.m. I ended my jog by running up all seven levels and counting the cars.
Total cars in deck: 210.
In hourly spaces: 38.
In Electric Vehicle spaces: 3.
Elapsed time running up the deck: 4:59.82.
Self portraits:
Parking Spaces #86
Monday, 10:30 p.m.
Total cars in deck: 18.
In hourly spaces: 6.
In Electric Vehicle spaces: 2.
No cars on Level 7, except mine.
Parking Spaces #85
Monday, 11:30 a.m. Sunny.
Total cars in deck (not including mine, and official vehicles): 246.
In hourly spaces: 30.
In Electric Vehicle spaces: 5.
Motorcycles: 1.
Two cars on Level 7: the Element and the green Camry.
Wasp:
Fallen woman:
Restored:
Man walking from Level 7 towards Level 6:
Parking Spaces #84
Thursday, 6:00 p.m. Cold. No cars on Level 7:
Shared two elevator rides with two women:
More women:
Parking Spaces #83
Tuesday, 10:45 a.m. Warm, humid.
Total cars in deck: 228.
In hourly spaces: 27.
In Electric Vehicle spaces: 5 (all full).
One car on Level 7: the green Camry.
City Hall:
No parking in these spaces on Level 6 today:
Parking Spaces #82
Monday, 5:00 p.m. No cars on Level 7.
Blue light:
Leaving:
