Friday, April 28, 2006
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IMG_0009a
Originally uploaded by jono1515.
This is Boggs Lake in the Cobb area of California. Apparently, the lake dries up in the summer. There were a lot of birds around and in it, it was really quite noisy with all the different birds around. Also a lot of bugs... I found a tick crawling on my arm as I was leaving, it hadn't bitten me though so I just blew it off.
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IMG_0012
Originally uploaded by jono1515.
This light post is actually a 30ft joint of drill pipe that was somehow formed into that sort of corkscrew shape. I thought it'd make an interesting picture with the light post silhouted against the drill rig. The light is for the parking lot of the field office for the Bottlerock Power Company (which only uses geothermal steam for power generation).
Friday, April 21, 2006
Cobb
The vacation is over and I'm back at work. We had a nice range of weather in Tahoe while I was back, ranging from mid to high 60's and sunny to possibly one of the biggest snow storms of the year on Easter. On Easter we tried to go skiing, but were stymied by the relentless storm and the lack of time for avalanche control at Squaw. With over 2 feet of snow, I was essentially stuck at my friends' place. My car had trouble getting up their hill when there was only 1 foot of snow and I had the tire chains on. No point in trying to get home in those conditions. It was pretty crazy to have such a huge storm halfway through April.
Back here in Cobb though is a different story. It's sunny and hot during the day and clear and cool overnight, which is the shift I'm back to working again. I got a nice sunburn the first day I was here, and I'm regretting having packed my bag with so many warm clothes that aren't really needed here anymore. It was nice driving home from work yesterday at noon with the sunroof open and all the windows down (except the one rear window that's got a dead motor).
I managed to get some work done on my car while I was back in Tahoe, the exhaust was repaired for a mere $50 weld, I got the heater blower sort of working again but I suspect if I use it much it's going to self destruct even more than it already has. And when I got to Cobb, I picked up the check valve my father mailed here for me to fix the windshield washer system.
I've been taking a lot more photos lately with my film camera in the manual mode and keeping detailed notes on the settings so that I can get better at taking pictures and not relying on the full program mode on it. I'm almost finished with the first roll this way so I'll see the results soon enough. I found a great place to mail film for developing and scanning, Clark Color Labs, it's pretty cheap and for about $8 I can mail in my film and get prints and a cd back with fairly high resolution scans.
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Breathe
I'm back in Tahoe after another week of work. They messed the well up pretty good that I was just working on and they gave up on it. The accidentally drilled through the casing and at this point they'd be better off just drilling a new well. That's A OK with me because I can only stand about a week of Cobb at a time. I really really can't stand that place. As I was leaving I developed a pretty nasty problem with the exhaust system on my car, the pipe attached to the catalytic converter broke just ahead of the converter. It's hanging down in a way that will jam it into the road rather than drag it, hopefully I can get a shop to weld it back together rather than have to buy the $400 part.
I've been biking around a lot rather than drive the car and risk really messing it all up. The weather is nice here in Tahoe, warm and sunny. I'm hoping to go skiing a few days this week before I have to go back to work.
I finally got a haircut and no longer have 4 inch long hair. It's so much easier to have short hair again.
Not much else is going on right now, just relaxing and enjoying some time off.
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