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learnteach) wrote2008-10-15 01:51 pm
learnteach) wrote2008-10-15 01:51 pm
Sleep is good.
Three nights of full sleep. I feel like a completely different person. Who doesn't get enough done and needs a shower, but I am on vacation at a friend's working on projects (de-blackberry the yard, trim the shrubbery, get the attic storage areas set up, help transplant plants, build an outside tools storage space...play too much Zuma, watch Boston Legal, learn Settlers of Catan card game, clean out the van) to varying degrees of success.
The move was better than expected, and a friend has agreed to help out in Reno. Have talked to MA twice since then, and he's a lot clearer, able to talk on the phone easily--the Nevada air is good for him. Sounds like L. is inviting MA up to Thanksgiving with his wife's family--good luck to them!
On the way (heading towards Eugene from Reno) I discovered that you can't get a cheap hotel room at the start of duck season, and that they've been so depressed there the current economic meltdown is hardly noticable. The white pine forests NE of Crater Lake are dying quick http://www.fs.fed.us/rm/highelevationwhitepines/Management/Strategy/mpb.htm and looking very sad. It's all second or third growth, and very patchy right now. About the only people who seem to be harvesting well are the 'shroom hunters, if the saphrophytic buy is good.
Crater Lake is cool. Well, cold, too. Snow on the ground, and the concessions will be shut in a week or so. I would say that it's easily as cool as the Grand Canyon, though, and the approaches are cool as well.
NOTA: Went to Jerry's. Met a man on a GS1200A who had survived a grizzly attack. Interesting stories and scars.
Back home by sundayish, start the job hunt full bore (not looking good from here; now is the time to get into a job before things get worse.)
Tallyhow!
The move was better than expected, and a friend has agreed to help out in Reno. Have talked to MA twice since then, and he's a lot clearer, able to talk on the phone easily--the Nevada air is good for him. Sounds like L. is inviting MA up to Thanksgiving with his wife's family--good luck to them!
On the way (heading towards Eugene from Reno) I discovered that you can't get a cheap hotel room at the start of duck season, and that they've been so depressed there the current economic meltdown is hardly noticable. The white pine forests NE of Crater Lake are dying quick http://www.fs.fed.us/rm/highelevationwhitepines/Management/Strategy/mpb.htm and looking very sad. It's all second or third growth, and very patchy right now. About the only people who seem to be harvesting well are the 'shroom hunters, if the saphrophytic buy is good.
Crater Lake is cool. Well, cold, too. Snow on the ground, and the concessions will be shut in a week or so. I would say that it's easily as cool as the Grand Canyon, though, and the approaches are cool as well.
NOTA: Went to Jerry's. Met a man on a GS1200A who had survived a grizzly attack. Interesting stories and scars.
Back home by sundayish, start the job hunt full bore (not looking good from here; now is the time to get into a job before things get worse.)
Tallyhow!
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I really liked it -- but was a bit bummed; even in July the road all around it was not open due to snow! It was keen, and I loved being there almost all by myself.
Get more sleep. It will help with your recovery from your houseguest.
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Even at the first of July there was still snow on the ground.
Settlers of Catan is a great game!
Going all the way to Oregon and not stopping at Powell's Books?
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Maybe emanations from out your way are why I've had such a hard time resisting Zuma for the past few days.
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BTW we have a timeshare not too far from Crater Lake. You could have used for cost of housekeeping fees. Call next time....
Good luck with the Job -
Hugs and much love