So yeah, it's been a little while since I've updated this page.  I spent the entire summer working for Oregon Department of Transportation, inspecting surface pavement removal/replacement on Highway 62 and Highway 140 around Medford.  Before this summer, I hadn't done ANY construction work, and was a little freaked out crossing back and ( Read more... )

                    We took the hawk over to the Klamath Humane today, where someone more knowledgable on raptor rehabilitation will pick her up and take care of her.  Yay!!!

         So, I'm driving home from bumming around town during the day.  It's pleasant outside, I'm feeling groovy, and thinking about picking up a St. Pauli's Girl on the way home.  As I'm cruising along, I pass by this hawk, who just looks at me as I drive by 4 feet away.  I think, "hmm, that's odd...wonder why she's just standing there...unless ( Read more... )

Eventually, I'd like to be the sort of fellow who would dance even before the gates of Hell.

(And knowing Hell, they're probably going to be playing disco.  ABBA, anyone?)

Can't say I'm that sort of person yet, but I'm FAR closer than I was a year ago...or even just a few weeks ago.  For once, I'm excited about what the next day will bring, rather ( Read more... )

What in life strikes you with a sense of the profound?

         Sometimes I wish I could just roll a dice for direction (N,S,E,W) and just start driving, turning around whenever I reached the ocean (or the roads ran out, in the case of going North).  

...would be a good description of my perspective right now.  When school started last week, I was expecting a few reading assignments, a few neat little homework problems to kind of get the ball rolling, you know?  Instead I get plastered with TOUGH AS HELL Environmental Engineering crap, and lenghty Strength of Materials marathons including one ( Read more... )

"Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only one question: When will I be blown up? Because of this, the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can ( Read more... )

So, it's beginning to look like I'll be working in Western Oregon with the Bureau of Land Management this summer.  Cadastral surveying.  Not completely definite yet, but good chance.  I can state with confidence that this makes my week!  I'll also have 3-day weekends.  And it'll be double-cool if I work out of Medford...I can visit folkses from

So this morning, through a combination of general fatigue, carelessness, and lack of situational awareness, I managed to cleverly back the rear of my truck into a cluster of sawn-off tree branches, smashing out the back window ( Read more... )