staycation week.

damn, this is what I needed.
been unplugged for more
than few, feels good. did
the mtn bike guide thing
over the wknd, getting paid
to pedal is a pretty sweet gig.
thnx Bucky & Ralph.

saw a lizard up along Vista.

and been doing some fishin'
here and there, daytrippin',
looking for streams that
aren't blown out, plenty of
rain this year, that's for sure.


pedaled thru the woods too,
got a new tire up front, the
fresh edges sure are grippy.


got home from the Little J
late last night, noticed branches
and shredded bits laying about
the streets....daylight revealed
the extent. Ma Nature did quite
a job on the neighborhood.

I was waist deep sippin' a beer,
waiting on the evening sulphurs
when this all went down, barely
got rained on where I was..


Four more days, plenty of
pedaling and a bit more
fishin' on the agenda.

stone cabin

and finally met the neighbors of the Stone Cabin,
Dave & Debbie....

"we ain't never seen nobody here before....nice to meetchya"

"been hammerin' her since she was 15."

ahhh local color, the Israelis ain't
seen nouthin' like that befoo.

low tolerance.

ahhhh, the benefit of being fat and slow.

don't need to ride back to back 14ish hour days,
when Cupcake Focus takes you there in 4ish.
forgot how much fun it is to battle the cramp
monster, I thought this retirement shtick
would keep him at bay.


trails are riding great though, so how can you
not empty the tank out there?

fished a bit on Saturday, Little J from 9 till 4ish.
Caught a few, no rising trouts yet, though didn't
stick around for the witching hour. Was reminded
the challenge of wading waist deep in qwik waters,
kept my feet under me, but did pucker a couple
times, was not in the mood for a swim...

Hot racing actions!!!

Maximus oh'11 is in the books.

Looked like everybody had one of those
miserably good times, sweet. The mountain
is overloaded with water and parts of the loop
showed it. Felt bad for the 20' & 10's, missing
out on the sweet stuff that's up high in the 40.
That loop out across Ridge Rd to newly finished
Vista is some of the sweetest riding in Michaux.
That's gotta be such a fun loop to race around,
except for the lower Adam's county slummin',
that's some gnarly ickiness down there. And it
puts you in pretty deep hole to climb up out of, ouch.

lots of hollow faces coming into the finish chute.
lots of respect out to all ya'll, hell of a ride you
put in..sorry about the rain, sorry about the
running water, it's out there no matter where
you go in the forest right now...should make
for good fishin' come July....will probably hit
some of the trails 'one more time' to see how
they fared. Another 3/4" of rain in the forecast,
imagine things will mend right back together....

J. Po. on RiceRocks! and thru the dippty-doh..



Ed is a smart man.

Churtle lines it up.

Only a witnessed two of these...

13 hours....

it's a fucking disgrace,
the lack of respect the
human race has for our
little blue spaceship,
hurtling thru the Universe.

fuck me, we're toast.

http://www.propublica.org/article/response-to-pa-gas-well-accident-took-13-hours-despite-state-plan-for-quick


and to add on....because I've got few in me...found this in the comments...


“Dave Cesark of Mesa Energy in Grand Junction said the risk isn’t zero, but fracking has been used safely for decades."

Riiiiiiiight.....and it probably has been, for all they can tell under the dpeths of the ocean or out in the deserted plains of TX and CO. But as they seek out this ever more scarce 'resource', they encroach closer and closer to the environs we all live in....so yes, the statement is lawyerly true, but reaks of bullshit when put to the smell test. They are now drilling in folks's backyards, they are poisoning our water. They aren't out in some isolated locale with neighborly tumbleweed rolling by or thousands of feet deep where bioluminescence ain't just groovy, it's a fact of life.

13 fucking hours to fly in a response crew for TX??? Our state is so fucked unless something changes. The fines for violations are absurd compared to profit potential...the fucking bookies have that all figured out, cost to benefit baby. When the penalty is a margin call for that single location, the corporate conglomerate is happy to take that hit in order to maximize the ratios at the 134 wells that luckily didn't blow out.

But this goes beyond statistical anomaly. Look at the fucking watershed...it all drains into the Chesapeake, it's the lay of the land. Think about everybody downstream.....we moved to PA when I was 4. Grew up fishin' the Susky, smallies around the Accomac, Walleye near those scarey power plant walkways, catfish and Long Level and shad below the big dam, Otter Creek and it's history. It's all downstream from all of these incidentsess. And coming from Illinois, my Dad didnt like the taste of the fish out of the river...'they taste dirty....' he'd say. And compared to IL farm ponds and lakes, they probably were. Fish are products of their environs...and I'm sure the Susky downstream of Harrisburg in the late 70's/80's wasn't the most pristine habitat. Never heard him say that about the perch and bluegills out of the Project 70 lake we fished every spring...just an observation....as long as they were fried & salty and there was ketchup, I was content. Though I can't imagine eating a fish out of that river today....

And as to the bottom line, for the 'markets' it's a margin call on one out of how many? But add up those ones that are spread here and there everywhere, all of those 'isolated incidents', and look at what all is downstream.....


Am I just bitchin', or have any actual ideas???

yeah, here's a thought.

tax and regulate the fuck out of them!!!! Fucking tax the fuck out of 'em to cover the cost of thoroughly watching their asses, make 'em post up for damage caused to the common interest, to the common place...to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania/.

so yeah, fucking tax the fuck out of 'em....and if they wanna keep on keeping on and continuously record new profit records seemingly every other quarter, then let 'em charge us 10-15-20 fucking dollars a gallon or whatever Natural Gas is measured by..(I'm all electric w/ kerosene buffer here in Tomitown), no idea what gas is going for...then make us fucking pay the real cost of these extractive industries, and we'll see how quickly attitudes change.....

Yeah, so tax the fuck out of 'em, let 'em jack the prices to keep teh margins intact, and see what the 'market' has to say about that. ?Make them fucking pay the real extraction cost of not just the raw good, but also of the long term degradationa and an assumption of risk for when shit hits the fan......mistakes do happen, the shit does go thwap thwap thwap thru the blades of the fan. Nothing can be foolproof, but make 'em pay up front to assume their risk instead of leaving it on us to clean up their mess, common sense. The drill/well goes well?....then here's that part of your deposit back.

And make us pay too, at the pump, when the heating bill arrives, make us bleed even more for your % profit margin....and then maybe more of us might wake up, and then maybe 'the market' will begin demanding the new technologies that Obama and every single "Year 2000" article from the '50s on tells us about. Solar? yeah I remember learning how to cook a hotdog in the '80s, then we got a microwave. Wind? yeah, ever see pictures of Holland? That shit's medieval and we still don't have it dialed???? Guess there just ain't no money in it. I mean shit, how can you hold the wind hostage?

I mean, jesus fucking christ, I think the Model T got the same gas mileage as my CR-V.....yeah, ok, now I can go faster, and have AC and stereophonic sound...but at what cost?

At what cost.. ?

watch this.

double clicky to link thru..

it's a shame.

it's a shame that actual Meixcans
have replaced killer bees
as the biggest threat from
'South of the Border.'

Back in the '80s they were
'coming right for us!'

and all we got was Stinkbugs.