Malheur County

"The entire population of the world - 5.4 billion people- could fit into Harney and Malheur counties alone with 103 square feet per person, a population density little greater than Hong Kong's. (Oregonian , July 25, 1993)"

And yet, those two Oregon counties are two of the largest and least populated in the lower 48. And that is where I am headed next week for work! The Steens Mountains are gorgeous high desert, but aside from that, there really isnt anything in southeast OR. I will be staying in Fields, OR. Heard of it? Probably not. The population is around 10 and it has 5 buildings, 3 of which are motel rooms. Yee Haw! I cant figure out if this is going to be more or less fun than working in New Mexico for a month. Nah, nothing can be worse than that.

Colleen and I also have gotten a lot done on the house recently. Since the weather was pretty much shit everywhere for Memorial Day, we stayed home and got hella shiz done on the climbing gym and back yard. We have spent near a grand on plants at Garlands (veggies, dogwoods, gardenia, seeds, dirt, blueberries!, roses, and rhodies) , I have spent near a grand I think on the climbing gym, and it is really great to see it all coming together.
If you havent seen the house yet, I've added some photos of the inside too now that we have gotten moved in.

At Night

I have a slight sleepwalking problem. It manifests itself frequently when I am sleeping in unfamiliar places. With this job I travel a lot. Therefore sleeping in a lot of unfamiliar hotels. This morning, just past midnight I woke up, ...shaving. I haven't done that before. I finished shaving, looked at the clock, and went back to bed for a very difficult night of attempted sleep. When I got up, I figured I had already shaved, so I just got ready and went. It took me a little while, but I eventually realized that I hadn't finished shaving. There was a significant neck beard on one side of my face all today. Score!
I am a retard. (at least I didnt end up in my roommate's bed or anything!)

A bunch of us climbed Mt Hood last weekend. It was really wet. And cold. A front moved in a little quicker than we had hoped. This was the most unpleasant summit to date, but it was still done safely, just a little less than ideal. What doesn't kill us makes us stronger, eh!

granted, its a little old, but here is a gem from Jon Stewart.


And another

STEWART: Yes. I feel like, you know, I feel like the best thing to do is to convince the country that our God is the one true God and that others are less.
KING: American God, you mean?
STEWART: Yes. The one that blesses us for our manifestness.
KING: He doesn't bless England.

STEWART: No. No. He doesn't care for them. He feels that they're pasty.
KING: Pasty?
STEWART: Pasty and he doesn't care for the food.
KING: But Canada.
STEWART: Happy to have them in the attic, but not so crazy about them in general.
KING: He's a judgemental God.
STEWART: Very angry. Loves the Americans. Very big. Wants us to have bigger cars. Wants us to have bigger cars and as a little goof on us has only made a finite supply of oil. It's very -- he's very funny. He's a trickster. Here's another little joke he did. He promised three different religions they were the chosen ones, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and then, funny, follow me, he put their holiest sites all in the same place. And then he backed away and he just wants to see who wants it more. That's what this is about. This is God going, hey, show me something, people. ...