The Concho hat band is Navajo. Probably adopted from Spanish settlers, but not quite the right cultural signals for my Tewa man who hangs out with Mescalero Apache. In any case, the traditional Concho are silver. So doesn't work for the plot point of getting neutron activation of iron that put out characteristic gamma radiation NEST was able to detect.
I was also rewriting the "Jennifer Beale" bit again and needed an action verb of Penny "something something" before she goes through the door of the Blake's Lotaburger on White Sands Blvd. Well, turns out they don't have an awning.
Thank you, Google Street View's almost-hidden "show me earlier dates" function. When I visited, they had roll-up glass. And, according to the photographs, that glass extended over the original patio, making the entire eating area enclosed.
That happened in 2022. In 2021, there was a patio with metal tables, no awning, a slight overhang of the blue roof. In 2015, the roof was red, the tables concrete, and they had built-in parasols. 2013 and earlier, the roof is white!
Well, I think I can get away with a blue roof and a patio for a story set in early 2019. Good thing, 'cause a previous scene my characters were sitting outside.
It happened a second time. Just as I finished the above revision with a "walked through the patio," sitting at my own favorite eatery...."What a Feeling" came over the radio.
Right, so the next pivot is Penny is an itinerant bass player who travels America with a Hofner over her shoulder and quotes incessantly from top-of-the-charts 1980 rock hits...
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