It is 93 degrees F, 30.5 Celsius, higher than the predicted high today. Much hotter than most November afternoons. There is a huge mass of air swooping down from the high desert to the ocean. It must squeeze through mountain ranges whipping into ferocious gusts.
Mostly it is just physics, with the higher altitude air being much less dense, it has far fewer molecules per bit of area. As the air descends the air moves into much more pressure as it reaches 0 ft above sea level.
With the winds and the pressure and something to do with ions, the air soaks up moisture. Water is ripped through your skin into the drying air. Water is sucked out of plants and trees and every living thing making fire dangers much worse.
These are the devil winds, the bitch winds, the santa anas.
It is the first of this year and it is the time when assault and divorce rates spike and termites colonies swarm out with ridiculous wings trying to end up someplace they can burrow themselves into.
Existing now, here, anywhere around, you are in conditions ripe for crankiness
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Showing posts with label contained. Show all posts
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
On Becoming Lost
On Becoming Lost
One purpose of a hiking guide is to present information in such a manner that people do not become lost. Hiking isn't like riding a horse or a bicycle. If one is lost while riding a horse just relax, maybe even close your eyes and let the reins go slack -the horse often knows the way home. Having spent some time on a bike I suspect that bikers don't mind being lost -it's just another experience -and everything will be O.K. Hikers, however, can become concerned if lost and a vague sense of apprehension sets in -in rare instances panic.
Stop, sit down, and gain control of your thinking. Resist the temptation of thrashing around hoping for a miracle. Mark the spot with something you can recognize, then retrace your route to the last known spot where your location is certain. Keep your daypack with you at all times. You can try yelling then listen. Some people carry a whistle, three strong blasts could catch someone's attention. Look at your map and orient it using your compass. Many of us believe in carrying the "Eleven essentials." Map and compass is on that list. Following an unknown stream downhill is not always a good idea. Some of our streams are difficult.
I've spent my share of time looking for lost trails and am of the belief that only the lone hiker is in serious danger. Groups of two or more can become lost but the mutual support of others with whom to share responsibility and ideas is a great comfort.
page 63
One purpose of a hiking guide is to present information in such a manner that people do not become lost. Hiking isn't like riding a horse or a bicycle. If one is lost while riding a horse just relax, maybe even close your eyes and let the reins go slack -the horse often knows the way home. Having spent some time on a bike I suspect that bikers don't mind being lost -it's just another experience -and everything will be O.K. Hikers, however, can become concerned if lost and a vague sense of apprehension sets in -in rare instances panic.
Stop, sit down, and gain control of your thinking. Resist the temptation of thrashing around hoping for a miracle. Mark the spot with something you can recognize, then retrace your route to the last known spot where your location is certain. Keep your daypack with you at all times. You can try yelling then listen. Some people carry a whistle, three strong blasts could catch someone's attention. Look at your map and orient it using your compass. Many of us believe in carrying the "Eleven essentials." Map and compass is on that list. Following an unknown stream downhill is not always a good idea. Some of our streams are difficult.
I've spent my share of time looking for lost trails and am of the belief that only the lone hiker is in serious danger. Groups of two or more can become lost but the mutual support of others with whom to share responsibility and ideas is a great comfort.
page 63
Thursday, March 11, 2010
The Fronting, this too has passed
The Fronting
this, too has passed.]
Hello Future
how have I been?
2008, September 15
[sorry]
More this is for XXXXXX.
(but not *for* her because that would affect the writing)
Because I am growing up
and I am acting like no bgauiy
and after all
it was after you read a poem
that I had written when you knew you loved me.
And so it is rude to not continue more onward
except for the realities on the ground
focus in on what you *can* do
[XXX XXXXX got married
and I saw a picture of a jolly XXXX and also of XXXX
still shy and apparently still with XXXX!
Hazel. or Heather, which?
was the name of the book that would have had to have been a 500 page book.
not Eleanor no.
Falla
Dance of Terror
Dance of the Game of love
Ritual fire dance
I would usually imagine Harry Potter 8 as a chapbook or as an NC-17 or R movie - 90 minutes.
[I still do but less]
on site pick-up.
[punctuation conference]
oh so it looks like the reaction is coming from somewhere else
... well done ...
[best lowered expectations
there is not anything,
there is phyistastef
It Ended When They Got To Talking
She watched the women sway their hips,
Then, she felt the weight of him.
[swim]
She wanted now to feel him watching,
It was through his eyes she thought of walking.
[lips]
and the whole card notion is pretty much dead at this point yes?
Version 4.0 upgrade firmware first rate way it is meant to be played.
[bioshock]
"it can't all be wedding cake"
ampersand vanilla wafer
creature comforts stand and deliver.
[God damnit it is real.]
with some convenient villainy
plied as wares at a market
by mischivieous old dutch ladies.
(as an old woman looked on, complicit.)
[ pattern recognition software runs down as a failure on the second and third points.
in comportment there is a sense of disturbance in terms of accepted standards.
[Afterwards excuses became untenable]
[Sing for the cameras and enjoy yourself.
it sounds like there are more dudes.
walking down takes away
finding space to calm down in amid during the current political establishment.
The fronting becomes automatic.
Blink your eyes twice, twice
open into a new view of everything now.
Pressure applied via and vice cranks
pressing excess in through the creating mind.
They Gdwe Night
31 hrs ---C the 24th hour had 8 dumb luck happiness and 1 1/2 hrs ago the balance falls
the lack of sleep is muffin the head
pulled forward knit skull cap.
taxachussetts Glen , lend them the pink shade shl rilh thorazine nocaurned
mindbender Steve
taking the long route to nothing
and it is a testament to something that this is probably not the worst I've ever felt
but it is high up there.
I have never on purpose hit my head onto something so hard before or with so much of an effect on me.
I was got a concussion going up for a rebound in 6th grade like Middle School basketball.
Fuck you - something isn't there four months ago? ... well obviously *I* lost it and you decided this a while ago so don't even discuss it. Bullshit.
[Erica Sullivan, Maggie Gylenhal, Maria Sharapova, Angelina Jolie, Selma Hayek]
What is this - gibberish? I don't see how that could be useful to any human being -- including its producer (assuming it is human)
[ The Dull Flame of Desire.
[medical information]
Easement retirement lien foreclosure impeding line appreciated amortization concluded Connecticut water fountain,
distancing the borders of thought
piercing the network of consideration
tension writ large
landscape devastated by emotional control
and the lack of it.
"in the fountain of the mayor's residence."
forget to wipe your forehead - this heat bastes it good and constant.
[shit am home but its better then ice.]
"everyone that ever was is in us."
bodily persistent and self assured considering the accidental random nature of its existence.
[address and directions]
[address]
these blocks in cast log -- dislluug to yer yar y
and so, how would Richard Harris? Dumbledore1 play in Harry Potter 5 given the same lines and all compared to Michael Gambon.
tension writ large on a landscape devastated by emotional control and the lack of it.
[XXXXXXX + XXXXXXXX]
I miss infinity. round, and I miss music with squares. flat ending round eternal.
[medical information]
offer and consideration is all that is left
when people are playing games, they'll play their role
as if to do so was desirable and morally right.
[address]
Debussy The Sea
1 from dawn to noon the sea
2 Play of the waves
3 Dialogue of the wind and the Sea
Ambergris
This body, trapped of every drop of breath,
In vast eruption of its swollen pride,
Proclaims itself the very whale of death;
Yet, I believe, the hand that plumbs its side
Will gather dissolutions sweet increase.
Exquisite fern of death - in nature ambergris.
Meanwhile, thinking of love, I have been dressed
For such destruction, though it surely break,
Come pluck the deep wild kernel of my breeze,
That wafer of devotion and partake
Of its complicated sweetness, till it bring
The soul to rise upon the fleshly wing.
If gent heart be scorned, in scorn of it
I shall immerse it in such bitterness,
Breathe every pulse in such an acid wit,
That from Mawmot, cold and featureless
Event of age, my enemies will flee,
Whereas my friends will stay and pillage me.
this, too has passed.]
Hello Future
how have I been?
2008, September 15
[sorry]
More this is for XXXXXX.
(but not *for* her because that would affect the writing)
Because I am growing up
and I am acting like no bgauiy
and after all
it was after you read a poem
that I had written when you knew you loved me.
And so it is rude to not continue more onward
except for the realities on the ground
focus in on what you *can* do
[XXX XXXXX got married
and I saw a picture of a jolly XXXX and also of XXXX
still shy and apparently still with XXXX!
Hazel. or Heather, which?
was the name of the book that would have had to have been a 500 page book.
not Eleanor no.
Falla
Dance of Terror
Dance of the Game of love
Ritual fire dance
I would usually imagine Harry Potter 8 as a chapbook or as an NC-17 or R movie - 90 minutes.
[I still do but less]
on site pick-up.
[punctuation conference]
oh so it looks like the reaction is coming from somewhere else
... well done ...
[best lowered expectations
there is not anything,
there is phyistastef
It Ended When They Got To Talking
She watched the women sway their hips,
Then, she felt the weight of him.
[swim]
She wanted now to feel him watching,
It was through his eyes she thought of walking.
[lips]
and the whole card notion is pretty much dead at this point yes?
Version 4.0 upgrade firmware first rate way it is meant to be played.
[bioshock]
"it can't all be wedding cake"
ampersand vanilla wafer
creature comforts stand and deliver.
[God damnit it is real.]
with some convenient villainy
plied as wares at a market
by mischivieous old dutch ladies.
(as an old woman looked on, complicit.)
[ pattern recognition software runs down as a failure on the second and third points.
in comportment there is a sense of disturbance in terms of accepted standards.
[Afterwards excuses became untenable]
[Sing for the cameras and enjoy yourself.
it sounds like there are more dudes.
walking down takes away
finding space to calm down in amid during the current political establishment.
The fronting becomes automatic.
Blink your eyes twice, twice
open into a new view of everything now.
Pressure applied via and vice cranks
pressing excess in through the creating mind.
They Gdwe Night
31 hrs ---C the 24th hour had 8 dumb luck happiness and 1 1/2 hrs ago the balance falls
the lack of sleep is muffin the head
pulled forward knit skull cap.
taxachussetts Glen , lend them the pink shade shl rilh thorazine nocaurned
mindbender Steve
taking the long route to nothing
and it is a testament to something that this is probably not the worst I've ever felt
but it is high up there.
I have never on purpose hit my head onto something so hard before or with so much of an effect on me.
I was got a concussion going up for a rebound in 6th grade like Middle School basketball.
Fuck you - something isn't there four months ago? ... well obviously *I* lost it and you decided this a while ago so don't even discuss it. Bullshit.
[Erica Sullivan, Maggie Gylenhal, Maria Sharapova, Angelina Jolie, Selma Hayek]
What is this - gibberish? I don't see how that could be useful to any human being -- including its producer (assuming it is human)
[ The Dull Flame of Desire.
[medical information]
Easement retirement lien foreclosure impeding line appreciated amortization concluded Connecticut water fountain,
distancing the borders of thought
piercing the network of consideration
tension writ large
landscape devastated by emotional control
and the lack of it.
"in the fountain of the mayor's residence."
forget to wipe your forehead - this heat bastes it good and constant.
[shit am home but its better then ice.]
"everyone that ever was is in us."
bodily persistent and self assured considering the accidental random nature of its existence.
[address and directions]
[address]
these blocks in cast log -- dislluug to yer yar y
and so, how would Richard Harris? Dumbledore1 play in Harry Potter 5 given the same lines and all compared to Michael Gambon.
tension writ large on a landscape devastated by emotional control and the lack of it.
[XXXXXXX + XXXXXXXX]
I miss infinity. round, and I miss music with squares. flat ending round eternal.
[medical information]
offer and consideration is all that is left
when people are playing games, they'll play their role
as if to do so was desirable and morally right.
[address]
Debussy The Sea
1 from dawn to noon the sea
2 Play of the waves
3 Dialogue of the wind and the Sea
Ambergris
This body, trapped of every drop of breath,
In vast eruption of its swollen pride,
Proclaims itself the very whale of death;
Yet, I believe, the hand that plumbs its side
Will gather dissolutions sweet increase.
Exquisite fern of death - in nature ambergris.
Meanwhile, thinking of love, I have been dressed
For such destruction, though it surely break,
Come pluck the deep wild kernel of my breeze,
That wafer of devotion and partake
Of its complicated sweetness, till it bring
The soul to rise upon the fleshly wing.
If gent heart be scorned, in scorn of it
I shall immerse it in such bitterness,
Breathe every pulse in such an acid wit,
That from Mawmot, cold and featureless
Event of age, my enemies will flee,
Whereas my friends will stay and pillage me.
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