Below are the 5 most recent journal entries recorded in theimpax's LiveJournal:

Wednesday, August 24th, 2005
9:44 am	Quincy, Moonlight and Burning Man Prep... Last Friday I drove up to Quincy with my mom...its about a 3 mile drive into the high Sierra from Grass Valley. We were doing some scouting on a possible new home for her...with Nevada County's rapid growth my mom is looking for somewhere quieter to settle for her and her horses. Quincy is tucked away in between the eastern Sierra Nevada and the high Sierra valley, and the landscape is quite stunning. (Actually it constantly reminded me of covered wagons and pioneers heading west...) We ate dinner at the local organic foods only cafe/bar. For 5000 poeple there seems to be lots of diversity and sizable community of progressive thinkers...theres a local food organic foods coop...thats always a good sign. So if all the right chips fall in the rights places, this could become her new home. I myself on the other hand will stay in Grass Valley where work is close by...but all the while i am dreaming of far off lands...gotta make that money then fly... Saturday evening was river night...and at the parking lot I ran into John Jones...a good friend from all the way down in Petaluma who just happened to be up camping for the evening. With a group of 10 strong, plenty of beer and food, and a gigantic ghetto blaster we partied merrily in the moonlight. At some point John and I rambled up the river rocks for a dip in the deep waters below China Dam...a premier Yuba swimming hole and nothing by magical under the full moon. Our energy was soaring and we spent hours nestled into the rocks above the pools having a much needed life, the universe and everything talk, which by the way is far from 42. Sunday was Garage Sale day...Burning Man approacheth...and it was time to find some toys and costumes. By the end of our tour i was squished in the back between the car seat and a desk, sitting on doll heads, bandanas and go big blue beanies. Luckily I scored a couple big pads to make things more comfortable. I love the free box... OK guess ill get to work now...few more days of that left still before a week of desert festivities (Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 16th, 2005
1:06 pm	Microwave vs Stove Top I was having a discussion on the merits/downfalls of the modern microwave oven. I happen to be a big fan. 3 of my friends who were not big fans told me that they could tell the difference between a cup of tea made from microwaved water and one made from a stove top kettle. So of course I said, "Its on now..." I made the water in seperate containers...ie I didnt microwave the cup that i served the microwaved tea water in. The results: 3 of 4 participants chose wrong when taste testing the two mugs. When asked how and why they made their decisions (I asked before I told them which was which) most of them were based on logical clues like "this one was hotter" and not taste differences. Point made. Microwave ovens are *very* energy effiecient and not a health hazard unless you push them off the counter on the floor, or open them up to remove the magnetron tube and power supply for use in laboratory experiments...and they dont ruin your tea water. Blah blah blah I went to the river this weekend, and cooked corn on the cob by the fire...hows that for effiecient? Current Mood: accomplished (Comment on this)
Monday, August 8th, 2005
4:59 pm	Just now a little boy rang the doorbell and asked when i was having a party. He said my girlfriend told him he could come over when he heard music. Current Music: Loud (Comment on this)
2:52 pm	Downieville Downhill Just recovered from saturdays 5 hours of downhill mountain biking up in the amazing Sierra Nevada Mountains. Yesterday I had a difficult time doing much of anything...sitting, writing...shuffling cards was particularly hard. So my girlfriend has only been gone for less than a week now...and i already miss her dearly...I will be going over to Turkey in October where whe will be studying until the end of December. Right now she is lying on beaches and having adventures with her new Turkish friends...no fair!! Not that I havent been having fun though, see for yourself: Current Mood: content Current Music: DI - Progressive (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005
11:37 am	Tagging Along Everybodies doing it...right? Well I guess I am too now. I have had my own web blog on my home page The Impax for some time but I havent been all that punctual with updates since moving back the ol' US of A. I also have a nice gallery of about 500 photos from various places in the world that you may find of interest. I plan on using my live journal as a portal for getting people to my website where the real fun is. (Including free online boggle programmed by me and my girlfriend, another new member of live journal, shawna_abroad). Because as it happens...there are infintely more people browsing live journal sites these days than individual users webites. So...here we go... (1 Comment |Comment on this)