Got a neat email last week from an amateur astronomer in the Bay Area, whose organization is scouting out new locations with lots of dark sky (hi Tony!) While Lake Shastina isn’t perhaps the best place, I’m sure there’s somewhere out here that would suffice. We have amazing seeing in Siskiyou County — if you [...]

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Last night I was a ball of stress (heck, this morning I was a ball of stress), so Johan and I walked from our house down to the Black Bear Diner for a leisurely dinner at the counter. It was cool, it’s been cloudy and borderline stormy for the past two days, and I’m loving [...]

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Saturday morning Elrohir and Lenneth, their parents and nephew picked us up in the neatest decked-out vacationing van I’ve ever seen… two tvs, headset ports, a SNES plug and station, cup holders, storage everywhere… it was like being in a private jet. ^_~ We drove out past McCloud and were let into Wyntoon, 66,000 acres [...]

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Last week’s snows have melted (I wish I was joking — I’m not) and it’s become most decidedly spring-like here. Johan and I checked the mail, grabbed some Subway and went for a walk in the city park during lunch, staying mostly by the headwaters area due to mud at the park trailhead. For those [...]

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(Because I’m here at work with Johan, Elrohir and Lenneth.) Friday night, we stayed home and I did some kitchen experimenting, ending up with lime and pepper chicken, covered in pepper jack cheese. ^^; Saturday we cleaned all day, mopped the floors, cleaned the bathroom, dusted, vacuumed, took out the trash and did some picking [...]

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Excuse a brief rant, but I discovered that I’m actually a little disturbed by this, which is a good reason to post. So Joe Client came in to go through all the revisions we’re going to make on his website, and it took a while. He was very polite and very complimentary, which is nice, [...]

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Man, it is absolutely dumping snow out there. We must have two feet now, in only four hours or so. ^^; That’s great for skiing, but not as great for driving… assuming we can get our car home (assuming we can ever go to lunch), we’ll be walking back and walking home. Our city isn’t [...]

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