January 15, 2005
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this ‘n’ that
This weekend, Greyfox is working the gun show at Wasilla High
School. In summer, his business is outdoors, a roadside stand
where he sells knives and other items. In winter, almost all our
income is from the tables he sets up at a few local gun shows. I
got a call from him on the CallWave earlier. His cell signal was
breaking up and I didn’t catch all of the “good news” part when he told
me how much he had earned so far. But even so, I could hear the
distress in his voice, and waited for the “bad news.” Someone
stole a $110 knife. There was chagrin in his tone as he went on
to say, with a rueful little chuckle, “Gotta stay vigilant.”
Yesterday when I posted my latest blog, AEIC was reporting seventeen earthquakes in Alaska for the day. Stash_living_dangerously
has asked if that many earthquakes is “normal” for this area.
Before the day was through yesterday, another ten quakes had been added
to the list: 27 for the day. Up to 4:25 PM today, the list shows
ten. Whether this is normal or not depends on how far back one
goes for statistics to average out. They come in swarms usually,
and there was a swarm of seismic activity around the northern edge of
the Pacific Ring of Fire on Thursday and Friday.I grew up in California, and I think that Alaska is generally shakier
than California. We are on the boundary of the North American
plate, where the Pacific Plate is sliding under it. Those forces
have raised a range of mountains that includes North America’s tallest
peak and several active volcanos. Throughout the history of
seismic recording and reporting, the general incidence of activity
seems to be showing an upward trend. Some of that could be due to
more sensitive instruments and better networks for reporting, but even
so it does feel like more shaking now than in the past.
I guess that’s all I have for today, except this:
Which OS are You?
I took this one twice because some of the questions had no single “right” option for me.I got two results on the next one, too.
Which Nigerian spammer are you?
Comments (13)
Do you often feel the quakes?
heh. we both titled our blogs “This ‘n’ that”
You have an awesome xanga. Very detailed. I need to come back and read your stuff. thanks for stopping by and commenting on mine. I will work on episode 2 of my story and probably have it up within the week.
Peace. -XK
i ended as Linux……could i be more open-sourced?
Can you imagine how ballsy you must be to steal anything from Greyfox? Can you imagine if he had gotten caught? Oh wow…
Gun show at a high school… hmmm. Interesting, and somehow I can’t see that sort of planning happening in a long list of states.
$110 knife, stolen? That just fucking sucks. What a low, cowardly, greedy thing to do.
That’s alot of quakes…. hmmm.
thank you for the congrats on me working on my driv lic!
quakes are sure interesting to go through. wouldn’t recommend it for everyone, but i seem to enjoy them for some reason. lol
thanks for the comment. your advise was taken, and is being used. thank you so much… ~ Awenyddion
Sorry to hear about the knife thing. Also, it’s interesting to learn this stuff about Alaska’s quakes; I guess I just never thought of it as being prone to them…
those are some interesting quiz results?!?! I didn’t know that Alaska had that many earthquakes. My uncle lives in Anchorage and he’s never mentioned, but he is usually to busy discussing his latest fly fishing adventure.
That’s too bad his knife was stolen it’s so frustrating to be taken advantage of like that.
i agree with fat_girl_pink… i only know what i’ve seen of Greyfox’s xanga, but even in that limited context I can safely say that yes, you’d have to be pretty ballsy or have huge ovaries, to steal from greyfox.
Hi sweety–bottom line, lowest gross, highest losses, details in my blog, you can preview the private pat. But I feel pretty good, got maybe seven hours of sleep last night and got lots of help from the kids striking the stand. Gonna try to edit and proof my lastest Silkyblog, post it public. Talk to you later.