some notes about today

petroglyph of a flower in bella coola – ancient rock art for which there is no local mythology.

I…..

was super-motivated this morning – managed to track down a problem and talk to some people about it (the problem being one unit is using up 80% of the space on our internet server and we need to work something out with them vis a vis data storage needs), answered a bunch of emails that came in over the weekend, worked on a couple other small things….. and then it just fizzled out sometime after lunch… i hate it when that happens.

emailed the guy who i was exchanging flirts with on the weekend and mentioned i wouldn’t mind hanging out again sometime. i keep wondering if he will respond or not.

am terrible at this whole getting-to-know people thing. it’s much easier just to go to bed with someone and sort the rest of it out later though i recognize that’s not the most adult thing to do either.

had to apply today to re-acquire my firearms possession & acquisition licence as i seem to have misplaced it in my move and not having the cert makes the fact i took the courses two and half years ago moot since i can’t prove it without.

am often shocked at the number of people who can’t just email a government agent for basic information without also swearing profusely and/or insulting the person behind the machine. do you really think i will answer you faster because you are an asshole? does it make you feel better?

am similarly shocked that someone in another unit thought it was okay to upload 20+ gigs of sattellite data onto our internet server without checking in with me – the webmaster – first…. as though we somehow have an unlimited storage capacity just waiting for giant databases to be fit into.

have been thinking about learning how to fish lately, and also about writing a cookbook (again) centered around local wild foods.

couldn’t fit all of these thoughts into a coherent blog-post which is why you are getting bullet-point fragments rather than lovely prose.