Since today is a federal holiday, we get a three day weekend (unofficially I think, seeing as I only get 20 days off besides weekends total, and what with xmas break and all we’ve already used up about 15 of them I think). It just kind of happened because our sponsor usually works from Tuesday to Saturday, and we’re currently shifting to match his schedule.
We finally saw the skunk train this weekend; it rolled by at a speedy 15 miles per hour on Sunday. We were good Americans and waved to the tourists as they went by, and refrained from hopping on the back, regardless of how tempting it was. They went by again today, and I swear I heard the announcer say “AmeriCorps” on the intercom. I know (from reading the past debriefs written by other teams) that the last AmeriCorps team to come here for a SPIKE got themselves installed as part of the scenic Skunk Train tour, but that was five years ago. Either way, awesome if they mention us, because as Media Rep, it’s my job to get that kind of thing set up. In other words, I got a freebie.
Regardless of how much of our food we eat when we hang around all day, I love not doing anything here at Mendocino. Lazing en sleeping bag until 11ish, reading sci-fi (finally found a short story anthology), enjoying SUN today. Actually, we went into Fort Bragg to hang out/foodshop on Saturday, and while wandering around, I found a crazy shop. It had a really old-fashioned wooden sign that read “studies in electro energetic waves.” It was a one-man museum; the guy that ran it is apparently the guy who did the laser/mirrors experiment and nailed down the speed of light decades back. I really wanted to get one of his free lessons. The guy called himself “82 years young” and had his desk in the back of the shop/place, with a name card on top. Everything was about what he had created and discovered, and I couldn’t tell if the guy was really into bioelectric, new-agey stuff or just really egocentric. It was closed when we got there, but everything I could see through the windows made the old guy who ran the place out to be a magician or something. I will be calling for a free lesson.
I am officially a data geek. We’ve been having some trouble shopping (we had to put items back on the shelves again this week), so I’ve started actually organizing it, what with lists and all. And now I’ve put the receipt into excel and created pie-graphs to distinguish our spending on breakfast/lunch/dinner and that kind of thing.
I have no shame.
More next time the main generator comes on.
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