blog of Intrepid Wanderer

This is the weblog of Intrepid Wanderer. You never know what you might find here; graphic descriptions of bodily functions, computer programming secrets, proselytizing for the antichrist, miscellaneous ranting and kvetching, valuable information on living off the land... if you don't share my rather weird interests you may want to try slashdot instead.

You can consider my Del.icio.us links an extension to my blog, as are my LifeTango goals and my other to-do items. My to-buy list is also public, but only for sharing any useful ideas that might be there; I'm not requesting charity, neither do I offer it.

You can find me easily in google searches, as jcomeau, jcomeau_ictx, or jcomeauictx. There are lots of other jcomeaus, but AFAIK I'm the only jcomeau_ictx out there so far.

If you want to comment on anything you see here, go ahead and email me, jc.unternet.net. You know what to do with the first dot. Make the 'subject' line something reasonably intelligent-looking or it goes plunk! into the spambasket unread.

This page generally sucks less using Mozilla Firefox.

2010-03-08-0548Z

Found out from Charles and Jessica from TerraBiotics.com that glycene from kelp improves soil, enables plants to grow in salt soil. And it may actually have been the sea water and its minerals that caused bumper crops following the tsunami in Indonesia a few years back.

Got my dental work done Saturday, and left town this afternoon. Stopped on the way out at the St. Clair winery to fill my Carlo Rossi gallon jug with good New Mexico wine, then headed West on I-10. Stuck in traffic for the last hour just past Phoenix due to a car crash.

2010-03-06-2208Z

Columbus Village officers Vega and Valenzuela were on City of the Sun property today, with dubious justification, in an unmarked slate late-model pickup truck. I told them this is not Columbus Village and Valenzuela said "I don't give a shit". With what happened to Anderson, these guys are obviously out of control. And someone shut down the Columbus Village Voice website, which was one of few things that might have kept them in check.

2010-03-05-1835Z

After that blog post about alcohol and antibiotics, I googled it. Seems to be a myth. So I drank a bit too much last night to compensate.

In a recurring dream of a street party (think Mardi Gras), a horse picks up his foot and stomps it loudly in my direction. Two guys in a booth then ask me some question about the horse's action, to which I usually answer "he frightened me". At that point one of the guys would always say, "He was warning you." So this time I answered "He was warning me". And they remained silent. Shades of Ender's Game.

Another dream was about a train. I was discussing a train station that could be built, and someone, in a context of the conversation I've forgotten, said it should be called "Constipation Station", and then I said it could have a bar and grill called the "Poop Deck".

In yet another dream I was doing some work for a guy named Jack at a whorehouse he owned. He had blond hair and 3 blue eyes, two of which blinked in unison, and the leftmost one which was independent.

2010-03-04-0436Z

Arrived back at City of the Sun tonight. An eventful day, seeing the water "seep" at McKittrick Canyon and having a Bohemia at the Kentucky Club in Cd. Juarez. I know, I shouldn't be drinking beer while on antibiotics, and I had 2 bottles today. So sue me. Damn, but it tasted good. Especially the Sierra Nevada Porter I picked up at Sun Harvest in EP.

2010-03-03-0216Z

Spending the night at the Texas rest stop West of Carlsbad Caverns on US 180. Heated restrooms and free wifi.

Saw the caverns for the first time in my life. Nice, but similar to the cave in the Tres Hermanas, just on a grander scale.

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