Living Someplace Ordinary
And always the Grass is Greener. By which I mean I watch the prospecting videos, read the literature, think to myself "If Only I was in Australia/Nevada/Arizona/London/Alberta...", always, always the game is elsewhere...
Somewhere in Australia a poor bloke's found no gold and is wishing he was in the Kootenays, away from the deadly spiders and venomous snakes and crocodiles...someplace easy, with shade and fresh, abundant water...
I'm well aware of the fallacy that treasure is never underfoot, when very often it is, I resist the urge to pack up, confine my explorations to an hour's drive.
Yesterday, good, a good spot, I was there before, few years ago, nothing great, but if I crossed over the creek, found a way to get to the other side, there's abundant potential. It's not as easy as it sounds, 6-8 feet wide, deep, swift current and abundant boulders, slip and things won't be so good, but I can see the potential, a good day, try it out, snipe, clean the rocks, the crevices, the moss from the boulders, fill a bucket and pan it out, I might be surprised.
For the moment, living someplace ordinary, but making my plans to improve it...
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Coffee Creek
Grey day, fine walk up coffee creek...
The higher you go, the more interesting the mineralization...
A curiously crystallized quartz boulder.
Large Dogstooth Spar (Calcite) crystals coating the bottom of a boulder, many were a couple of inches in length. They'd need the weathering to be cleaned off to attractive...
In the distance the Ferry making it's way from Crawford Bay to Balfour.
A lot of Elk and Deer tracks, and so naturally a rather large Cougar Track...
Waterfall...
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S*TOWN & Hello From The Magic Tavern
A couple of new podcasts recently discovered, one - S*TOWN - Host Brian Reed travels to Woodstock, Alabama, to solve a listener-reported murder and the story unfolds (not as you might think) from there. Poignant, complex. The other a more whimsical look at the misadventures of Arnie Niekamp after he falls through a rift behind a burger king into a seemingly enchanted kingdom that's strangely parallel to our own...
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Ted Cruz and The EULA
Via Boing Boing and Motherboard
"In fact, in 1996, Ted Cruz (yes, that Ted Cruz), cowrote one of the most important and forceful papers arguing that legal intervention (regulation, maybe!) is necessary to prevent large corporations from taking advantage of the masses."
Link: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ted-cruz-law-paper-vote-with-your-wallet-doesnt-work
Congress just voted to allow ISP's to sell customer data to corporations. and this is how much it cost to buy Congress.
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