cliomouse (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} cliomouse) wrote,@ 2006-11-11 15:41:00 |
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Discovering the Daiso
Kelly and I went letterboxing a couple of weekends ago. The main purpose was to plant a new series of nine boxes that I've already made, but didn't have much luck there. What was noted as a park on maps is actually a shooting range, and I didn't figure it would be best to have people wandering around in the woods there. We did finish off a series here in town, though, which I've been meaning to do for months. I also got to go see what Electron is all about, which is also noted on maps as being a park. Turns out there is a tiny park there, and I have plans for a box there, but the whole place is not a park, as the maps and aerial photos show.
Kelly also introduced me to the Daiso of Japan store, which just opened at the mall here in town. It's sort of like a Japanese dollar store, but $1.50 instead, and everything is much better quality than your typical American dollar store. A number of items were very strange and I had to ask Kelly what they were, since there was no English on the label. "Fluffy...cheese...rice?" she'd slowly read. That actually describes most of the snack-type stuff they had. The main reason for going there is that they have a lot of little plastic ware containers that are perfect for letterboxes. They also had some general bento boxes, but none of them were as neat as the ones my mom got us from the same site Sarah got hers.
I need to start making some bento lunches, now that I'm not out in the woods all day every day. That job in Bremerton is finally over, after two weeks and 421 test pits. It started the flood-worthy raining last week and forced me to get wet weather gear. It was still somewhat miserable, but at least the Rite-in-the-Rain paper held up.
Highway 35 photos (not mine, somebody from work took these):
The Bremerton job was probably the most miserable I've hever had to do for Geo...8 hours a day of nothing but standing, walking, and not being able to go to the bathroom. As soon as you get far enough into the woods to find a private place, you're back out again, since they're clearing the roadways and lots through. I also got the work truck stuck a couple of times. We asked Enterprise for a small sized four-wheel-drive and got a two-wheel-drive F150. How that makes sense is still beyond me, but at least it was higher up off the ground than the S10. Better engine for its size, too.
Mandy and I went to the Firwood for Halloween. They had a good band there that was playing decent music, so I actually danced. A couple of girls came in after Mandy and I had been there a half an hour or so and started dancing by the bar before they even got to the dance floor. One was dressed as a skanky Snow White, the other basically as a skanky Red Riding Hood. You could tell they were most accustomed to pole dancing, and both were rather nasty. But they seemd to be having quite a great time, so enh...
My mother and I spent the morning, after the lawnmower man left, clearing out the pond of all the decaying pond plants and leaves. We put the walk-board across it and I laid on it and pulled up stems with my rubber gloves on. The fish were really friendly, probably in part because they were hungry, and bumped into my hands when I wiggled my fingers around a few inches under the water's surface.
Next week at work is back to the same old running around from site to site. I went to mark some borings for the utility locate yesterday in Bonney Lake and just narrowly missed being in an accident. A girl was injured (thought not seriously) in the car that was rear-ended, so the only guy who witnessed the accident called the police. He didn't know where we were, though, so he gave the phone to me to give the descriptions and locations. I handed the phone back when it came time to give a name and number, and left before the police arrived after giving my business card to the witness, just in case. I hadn't seen anything, so I didn't figure it was necessary to stay and be in the way. The other guy with a vis vest on had lights on his truck and better traffic control experience, so I left it up to him and got out of there.
It's been nearly a year since I got my computer, and it is now officially mine. I have paid off the last of it and my general credit card debt, and now have no more credit card payments. Woohoo!
Kelly and I went letterboxing a couple of weekends ago. The main purpose was to plant a new series of nine boxes that I've already made, but didn't have much luck there. What was noted as a park on maps is actually a shooting range, and I didn't figure it would be best to have people wandering around in the woods there. We did finish off a series here in town, though, which I've been meaning to do for months. I also got to go see what Electron is all about, which is also noted on maps as being a park. Turns out there is a tiny park there, and I have plans for a box there, but the whole place is not a park, as the maps and aerial photos show.
Kelly also introduced me to the Daiso of Japan store, which just opened at the mall here in town. It's sort of like a Japanese dollar store, but $1.50 instead, and everything is much better quality than your typical American dollar store. A number of items were very strange and I had to ask Kelly what they were, since there was no English on the label. "Fluffy...cheese...rice?" she'd slowly read. That actually describes most of the snack-type stuff they had. The main reason for going there is that they have a lot of little plastic ware containers that are perfect for letterboxes. They also had some general bento boxes, but none of them were as neat as the ones my mom got us from the same site Sarah got hers.
I need to start making some bento lunches, now that I'm not out in the woods all day every day. That job in Bremerton is finally over, after two weeks and 421 test pits. It started the flood-worthy raining last week and forced me to get wet weather gear. It was still somewhat miserable, but at least the Rite-in-the-Rain paper held up.
Highway 35 photos (not mine, somebody from work took these):
The Bremerton job was probably the most miserable I've hever had to do for Geo...8 hours a day of nothing but standing, walking, and not being able to go to the bathroom. As soon as you get far enough into the woods to find a private place, you're back out again, since they're clearing the roadways and lots through. I also got the work truck stuck a couple of times. We asked Enterprise for a small sized four-wheel-drive and got a two-wheel-drive F150. How that makes sense is still beyond me, but at least it was higher up off the ground than the S10. Better engine for its size, too.
Mandy and I went to the Firwood for Halloween. They had a good band there that was playing decent music, so I actually danced. A couple of girls came in after Mandy and I had been there a half an hour or so and started dancing by the bar before they even got to the dance floor. One was dressed as a skanky Snow White, the other basically as a skanky Red Riding Hood. You could tell they were most accustomed to pole dancing, and both were rather nasty. But they seemd to be having quite a great time, so enh...
My mother and I spent the morning, after the lawnmower man left, clearing out the pond of all the decaying pond plants and leaves. We put the walk-board across it and I laid on it and pulled up stems with my rubber gloves on. The fish were really friendly, probably in part because they were hungry, and bumped into my hands when I wiggled my fingers around a few inches under the water's surface.
Next week at work is back to the same old running around from site to site. I went to mark some borings for the utility locate yesterday in Bonney Lake and just narrowly missed being in an accident. A girl was injured (thought not seriously) in the car that was rear-ended, so the only guy who witnessed the accident called the police. He didn't know where we were, though, so he gave the phone to me to give the descriptions and locations. I handed the phone back when it came time to give a name and number, and left before the police arrived after giving my business card to the witness, just in case. I hadn't seen anything, so I didn't figure it was necessary to stay and be in the way. The other guy with a vis vest on had lights on his truck and better traffic control experience, so I left it up to him and got out of there.
It's been nearly a year since I got my computer, and it is now officially mine. I have paid off the last of it and my general credit card debt, and now have no more credit card payments. Woohoo!
