September 21, 2007

What I find on shoulders

I have been in Idaho this week (and will be next week too) working on a UAP roadside reseeding project. Unfortunately, the roadside is 4 lanes of 75+ mph traffic along I-84 east of Boise. Lovely. I have only had one near death experience so far, and am only half way through the 2 week project. I have found that truckers are generally the most considerate drivers on the road, while the general public can't follow construction signs at all. While working extensively on the shoulders I have found a porno, numerous soda bottles of urine (that pop when the seed drills run over them), some hand tools, but the most disturbing thing by far is the number of bolts, and other small yet important parts of the vehicles we drive every day. With the amount of fastening devices lost by the motoring public, it is a wonder engines don't just drop out of cars more frequently.
Living out of a hotel room all by oneself is quite lonely really. I am not in any one place long enough to find a groove that fits me, so I just hang out and try to not get fat by doing situps. I feel like I am in fight club, with all the single serving crap around me. Anyway, I'll be back for a while and then I am off to New Mexico for a month. Not quite sure where in NM but I'll let you know. Oh, and if you want to go climb Epinephrine in Red Rocks, I have to drop off a trailer in Vegas on the way down and am looking for a climbing partner around the 7th or 8th of october.

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