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Greenwood, The Toaster Museum

Always meant to stop and take photos, it's never open. The whole town is basically up for sale and due a heavy restoration, but once that's complete it'll be quite a touristy little place I predict...

The Meat draw at the Legion...

 

 

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Created: 18 May 2020

My Media Diet...

Mostly nonsense. I mean, I'm away, then I'm catching up. News, Trump, USA, Canada, UK, The World, NZ, Australia, Sweden, Covidiot type shit.

Reddit. The Daily Grail. Digg. Boing-Boing. Refresh. Again. And again. And the news is always worse.

In other media, catching up on the world of inane TV. Watched: "Don't f**k with Cats". Meh. "The Hurricane Heist" - D-Movie on Netflix, which I loved because it was like a weatherman (picture Steve Carell)  on the weather channel decided he wasn't getting enough respect and decided to write his own action movie. With him as the star...

I dunno. I needed a break from the news.

Episode 1 from "Upload" on Amazon Prime. OK, but it annoyed me because I had thought of all this easily 10 years ago - by which I mean, the digital afterworld, the idea of ads, subscription, tech support, etc. And it annoys me that someone else realized it. But it makes me recognize - when an ideas time has come, if you don't realize it first you're last. And so I'm watching it to see how someone else has realized "my" ideas.

"Vivarium" - interesting concept, not so thoroughly developed. Liked, but "so-so". Some good ideas.

Finished watching "Ozark" season 3. Nope. No good news there. And I really, really, didn't care.

And, finally, "The Good Place". I like the tidbits of philosophy, but it's all too dumbed down. Episodic, as if each episode was written only after the previous one had aired. Reminds me of "The Magic Tavern" in it's improv/didn't make a plan/let's just wing it approach. I'd give it a miss. But - on the plus side - I didn't want to kill myself afterwards...

 

 

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Created: 12 May 2020

Should have brought a book...

So, around Nelson and waiting for snow to melt. Should have packed some books. The nights, especially between 8 pm -8 - am are long, dark, cold, but not tired, and no book to read. And up early, too early, too cold to go out, a book would be some small company. There's no radio, no wifi, no nothing up there, which is why it's so promising, a couple of long claims on Goldstream, Carnes Creek, and about 70 km in between.

Make use of my time to gather supplies and prepare...

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Created: 12 May 2020

North of Revelstoke, etc

North of Revelstoke, still too much snow to reasonably explore. Next week again:

Bears, bears, everywhere. Fortunately looking sleek and well fed. 6 in one day!

The road North towards Mica Dam...

End of the road about 20 km past the Mica Dam

Staffs in the sand, resembling dragons, campsite.

 

Snowy river...

Promising vein of rotting, rusty quartz. West of Trout Lake, beside the road, I should have gathered some of the degraded rust and panned it, but as it was beside the road I told myself that it had doubtless been done before. That's piss-poor reasoning. 

Copper in the ore. Promising. Should have panned it...Next Week!!!

Spray of Black Tourmaline (Schorl) in pegmatite. Mighty fine, but no other gems, and the tourmaline was largely crumbly.

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Created: 12 May 2020
  1. Found my safe injection site...
  2. (Back) into the wild
  3. Contagion
  4. The Liar Tweets Tonight

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