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   So I had an interview with the Peace Corps two weeks ago in Seattle. As many of you already know from my facebook status update, they got back to me last week and the answer is "yes ( Read more... )

   As you know, I am extremely dedicated to scientific inquiry. As such, when last christmas a friend gave me a $60 gift card for Beverages & More, I naturally saw the opportunity for science ( Read more... )

   Previous to getting into professional beekeeping, if I were to picture a beekeeper, I would have pictured a gentle nature-loving individual lovingly taking care of a few dozen beehives in a picturesque meadow ( Read more... )

And continuing on my theme of I-don't-actually-have-time-to-write-entries, another one from last year in emo-snal.

But first, I accidentally left out an important detail about my last entry about the Walmart in Aberdeen -- the Walmart in Aberdeen recently BOUGHT OUR DOCK!! Crew response to this news: "...you mean.. we have nowhere to dock in aberdeen ( Read more... )

The following is another entry "from the archives" of the other blog, from last December when I was on the Lady Washington in freezing temperatures in Aberdeen, Washington:

After morning chores every morning (every morning the entire boat gets cleaned, the deck washed (except when it's below freezing), the brass polished, and the heads cleaned ( Read more... )

And now another random entry from the archives of the other blog!

High Fructose Corn Syrup. Good? Bad? Evil? Many people take it as a safe assumption that HFCS is an inferior substance with dubious merits. Somewhere in the background one might hear the HFCS industry protesting that no one can name exactly what is wrong with it. I didn't ( Read more... )

And now for something completely different! A beekeeping related post from the other blog earlier this year!

Getting Stung in the Facec - A Practical Guide

So I got stung dozen and a half times in the face the other day at work, but that wasn't even the worst part ( Read more... )

   Hello from Port Orchard, WA! We only just got here yesterday so I don't know much about this town. Seems to be the typical small seaside town up here though -- one main street with shops on it, a disproportionate number of which are antique shops, four bars, only one coffee shop (and it is more like a well lit plastic table sort of restaurant ( Read more... )

   ::dusts off microphone:: TAP TAP, hello, anyone still here? I think posts here now get read much more via the feed to facebook than here directly, so hello facebook!

As some of you may recall with dread, traditionally every June I participate in a little something called 30 in 30 wherein one makes 30 updates in 30 days. 30 blog posts that ( Read more... )