So the weather is stormy right now, and it makes me uncomfortable. Not it the manner that most people are uncomfortable about it...fearing the wrath of what nature can do. I'm uncomfortable with it because it's NOT full blast. It's NOT turned up to eleven. It's not unleashing its fury. I find I have an odd urge for something catastrauphic to happen.
Yeah, I get it. It would be awful. Terrible. Structures would be destroyed and people might be injured, or worse. It would be chaos. I'm an asshole...we've met.
I think a healthy dose of chaos would do us all well. Blast away every unmeaningful, useless, pointless act we perform during the course of the day...no selfies on instagram, no mani/pedis, no need to shave. Boil everything down to a survive-and-protect reaction. Humans have spent tens of thousands of years doing just that; make it to the next day with your body and your family's bodies in tact. We need a refresher course every now and again.
Tuesday, August 22, 2017
Monday, August 7, 2017
Wandering the Earth, Without Kung Fu
Ugh...I got it in the worst way. I just need to be lost for a few days. Usually that feeling is kept in reasonable check because I can walk around at the deer lease and get my dose of "church" from being in the mesquite. However, I decided back in May to take a year off from the lease. So, I haven't needed to put the prep work in for the fall. So, I haven't had a heaping helping of nature in a while. I'm two years removed from the last "guy trip" where we go to some far off western place and get primitive for a few days. I have a week's worth of vacation I can still use. I decided to use that in September and go to Gila Wilderness Area just outside of Silver City, NM. That's still a few weeks away.
I got so restless last weekend I was looking at Google Maps to see how long it would take to hike to Brownfield or Levelland. It's listed at a little more than 9 hours for each, if you're wondering. Now I could do that, but there are two issues;
1). 9 hours there isn't a problem. 9 hours there and then 9 hours back is. And I'm not going to inconvenience anyone to come pick me up because I'm satisfying some mild mental breakdown.
2). Each of those routes are along pretty busy stretches of highway, and I don't want to get squashed by someone not paying attention or people asking me if I need a ride.
I found a new plan. I'm going to start from Wolfforth and get a little headstart west, and then take the back county roads to Smyer (about halfway to Levelland) and then turn around and come back. 4 and a half-ish hours each way. That's a good day's worth of work. Should keep me from climbing out of my skin until I can make it to GNF next month.
I got so restless last weekend I was looking at Google Maps to see how long it would take to hike to Brownfield or Levelland. It's listed at a little more than 9 hours for each, if you're wondering. Now I could do that, but there are two issues;
1). 9 hours there isn't a problem. 9 hours there and then 9 hours back is. And I'm not going to inconvenience anyone to come pick me up because I'm satisfying some mild mental breakdown.
2). Each of those routes are along pretty busy stretches of highway, and I don't want to get squashed by someone not paying attention or people asking me if I need a ride.
I found a new plan. I'm going to start from Wolfforth and get a little headstart west, and then take the back county roads to Smyer (about halfway to Levelland) and then turn around and come back. 4 and a half-ish hours each way. That's a good day's worth of work. Should keep me from climbing out of my skin until I can make it to GNF next month.
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