drive
decided to do something with my days off.
i have two in a row! first time since xmas, i believe.
so i got up this morning, thanks to sarah, our cat.
i grabbed some blimpie's and went on out to kenmore park.
i'd never been there before. its right at the top of the lake where it seems like one of its major water sources are.
so i romped around near the water's edge and almost immediately came upon private property.
small-ass park. fuck that.
i bolted.
headed on over to st. edward's park.
here, they now expect you to pay for parking, since it's a state park and all...
i refused and luckily got away unscathed. i parked in the spot where there used to be squash courts. i guess they figured the sport would never catch on enough for those things to be useful. so they turned it into that parking lot.
there was also a new playground area which wasn't there since the last time i had been there in high school.
anyway. so i made my way down to the lake, which means you have to cut down through a deep ravine. instead of finding a trailhead, i decided to bushwhack my way down.
yeah. i know, bad eagle scout. but sometimes you just gotta trailblaze.
but wearing shorts and bushwhacking wasn't the best idea.
when getting down into the bottom of the ravine where there a bit more water, there's a crapload of stinging nettles.
so now, even 5 hours later, my shins are still stinging.
but i think i remember reading a while ago a way to alleviate the stinging.
the secret was to rub the spores from the underside of a fern frond on the irritated area and, voila, cured!
which is kinda ironic, cuz really, there were as many, if not more ferns down in that ravine as the nettles.
this irritation could have been easily remedied.
whatever.
so i came back, took a shower and took g-pa out for a ride. well. actually he drove and i just helped navigate if he got lost.
we ended up doing a fat loop. we started from our house, hit up 100th to downtown kirkland, cut over to overlake, went up through bridle trails, up more through redmond and woodinville, cut back over at bothell and kenmore, and ended up back on 100th and back to our house.
a fatty loop.
next on the agenda for the "weekend" is laundry. then homemade dinner compliments of mom!
after that i have nothing.
which means tomorrow is free.
maybe when i get bored i'll post about my book.
diamond got off the sexual topic and is now focusing more on language and art and how it differs from other animals who show some signs of it.
he also talks of drugs and alcohol and why people choose to use them.
i'm not quite sure i agree with his theory.
i'll go over it later.
then you can decide if you agree with me or not.
i have two in a row! first time since xmas, i believe.
so i got up this morning, thanks to sarah, our cat.
i grabbed some blimpie's and went on out to kenmore park.
i'd never been there before. its right at the top of the lake where it seems like one of its major water sources are.
so i romped around near the water's edge and almost immediately came upon private property.
small-ass park. fuck that.
i bolted.
headed on over to st. edward's park.
here, they now expect you to pay for parking, since it's a state park and all...
i refused and luckily got away unscathed. i parked in the spot where there used to be squash courts. i guess they figured the sport would never catch on enough for those things to be useful. so they turned it into that parking lot.
there was also a new playground area which wasn't there since the last time i had been there in high school.
anyway. so i made my way down to the lake, which means you have to cut down through a deep ravine. instead of finding a trailhead, i decided to bushwhack my way down.
yeah. i know, bad eagle scout. but sometimes you just gotta trailblaze.
but wearing shorts and bushwhacking wasn't the best idea.
when getting down into the bottom of the ravine where there a bit more water, there's a crapload of stinging nettles.
so now, even 5 hours later, my shins are still stinging.
but i think i remember reading a while ago a way to alleviate the stinging.
the secret was to rub the spores from the underside of a fern frond on the irritated area and, voila, cured!
which is kinda ironic, cuz really, there were as many, if not more ferns down in that ravine as the nettles.
this irritation could have been easily remedied.
whatever.
so i came back, took a shower and took g-pa out for a ride. well. actually he drove and i just helped navigate if he got lost.
we ended up doing a fat loop. we started from our house, hit up 100th to downtown kirkland, cut over to overlake, went up through bridle trails, up more through redmond and woodinville, cut back over at bothell and kenmore, and ended up back on 100th and back to our house.
a fatty loop.
next on the agenda for the "weekend" is laundry. then homemade dinner compliments of mom!
after that i have nothing.
which means tomorrow is free.
maybe when i get bored i'll post about my book.
diamond got off the sexual topic and is now focusing more on language and art and how it differs from other animals who show some signs of it.
he also talks of drugs and alcohol and why people choose to use them.
i'm not quite sure i agree with his theory.
i'll go over it later.
then you can decide if you agree with me or not.
1 Comments:
ha! I stole your laundry day for myself! And you didn't get no homecookin. pizza for you. which is still yum anyway. i'm interested to hear about more of your book...why peeps choose to use drugs? hmm...i was just reading about the things it does to your brain. How LSD and crystal meth and even cocaine can have permanent effects. flashbacks can occur, as it is stored in body fat. when peeps lose weight, it can bring out the drug into the bloodstream again, cause they're burning fat. And how the marijuana if used before the age of about 15 permanently alters the development and growth of some areas of the brain. anyways. it's interesting stuff. cause also, why do we have receptors in our brain that respond to these chemicals? or are there compounds just similar enough to our endorphins and such. why would these things develop in nature? what about their use throughout history in religious experiences? Ok, a whole different topic, but interesting, still. anyways, i'm interested to see what you are learning.
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