Lotsa things to post about when I get time:
flight
rental
hotel (+ weird guy)
seawall
the shack
swimming
The Difficulty in Waking Up In Another Timecode
The TSA’s need for mouthwash
superawesomecool shower
However, now I must go do what they’re paying me to be here for, so that (and the photos) will have to wait!
If you want to reach me, I’m in Room 216, Portofino Hotel (and Yacht Club!), Redondo Beach. :)
Someone in my f-list posted something second-hand that said, “Discipline is not punitive”. I think it’s a great point – making decisions for yourself and finding the willpower to stick to them, despite the impulse to do otherwise, is a matter of loving yourself.
It’s a matter of respecting your own wisdom.
Unrelatedly (I think), I so respect this guy. It’s the “steampunk keyboard/lcd” guy, and he took an older diesel bus and completely renovated it with recycled materials into an amazing masterpiece of an RV. I particularly love the dual angle oil lamp. I went through every page of his RV rebuild, and I have to say that it’s the only time in recent memory I’ve wished I had a house with a garage and tools.
I’d love to build and create like that.
If I get around to it, I’ll post photos of my weekend, later. It was very full, yet relaxed and pleasurable. :)
My company has seen fit to send me on another excursion. I’ll be in Redondo Beach to film some video this Thursday, but I arrive Wednesday afternoon/evening, and I’ll be there until Friday, flight leaving around noon.
Other than the videotaping, I should have loads of time in there, and they’re giving me a rental car as well. So if you’d like to meet up at a pub or hang out elsewheres, please let me know! I’ve never been to the area, so this should be interesting. :)
I went to bed early, which means I got up long before the dawn. I’ve been listening to the radio (107.1, natch) as I clean and organize – I’m in the midst of a massive clothing purge.
It can be difficult. This piece is one of my favorites, but doesn’t quite fit right anymore. This other piece looks a bit dated, but fits pretty well, and I haven’t worn it in a long time. Why have I kept the signed Lords of Acid “Show me your pussy” shirt for so long?
Trashed, now. I expect to have a clean and workable walk-in closet by the time I’m done – something I haven’t had at least since I gave up the truck.
I’ll work out if I still have time, shower, and meet netmouse for pickin’ strawberries! 8:45 seems obscenely early when you generally wake up at the last possible moment to get to work, but it isn’t so terrifying when you’ve been up for three hours already.
A little later, I’ll pack up the car with tent and supplies and make my way to the midsummer campout in Eaton Rapids with some of my favorite peoples. I might bring my digeridu (I’m terribly rusty) and a few other fun things to do with my hands while we sit around the fire. If I pick a bunch of strawberries, maybe I’ll pick up some of those shortcake cups and make something delicious for peeps.
See the world
Find an old fashioned girl
And when all’s been said and done
It’s the things that are given, not won
Are the things that you earned
David Hackenberg was the first beekeeper to report the disorder to Penn State last fall after losing nearly 75 percent of his 3,200 colonies.
He has rebuilt his business to 2,400 colonies but now asks growers whether they use the chemicals because he is convinced the bees are being harmed by pesticides, especially a type called neonicotinoids.
“I’m quizzing every farmer around,” Hackenberg said. “If you’re going to use that stuff, then you’re going to have go to somebody else.”
If bees continue to die, he said, Hackenberg Apiaries may have to raise prices to replace dead hives. The business charges about $90 a hive to “lease” bees in fields. Replacing a hive with new bees costs $120.
Neonicotinoids do not contain nicotine — the addictive drug found in tobacco — but they are named after it because they target nerve cells in a similar way.
Two things.
First, if bees aren’t finding their way home because of a nicotine-like reaction, there has to be some hilarious smoking joke there. Find it for me, and win!
Second, if 75% of his hive died mysteriously and without a sense of closure, does that make it a … haunted apiary?
(why don’t I have a beekeeper icon, anyway? Or at least something more ARGy than my “war-walking”)
Maggie Gyllenhaal is playing Rachel Dawes in The Dark Knight (The sequel to Batman Begins).
Now that’s more like it!
… and, uhm, according to IMDB, Anthony Michael Hall has a role that is, at this time, nameless. Hmmm, okay…
