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Sitting here, drinking a home brew, listening to Tool, and contemplating life's many complexities.......

Well, all of that except for the part about the complexities. I am going up to UT-Knoxville on Thursday to talk with one of the professors there. He sent me an email and asked that I be prepared to stay from mid morning until mid afternoon. I am not exactly sure what he has planned, but it sounds like quite an ordeal. Well, I am sure it isn't going to be an ordeal exactly, but it sounds like there is going to be a lot of talking. Hopefully I will get to meet several of the professors as well as some of the administrative staff in the Geology department as well as the graduate school.

I am pretty pumped about this. It seems like I might actually be wearing someone down at this point. :)

I have already got all of the application materials turned in at Stanford and Chapel Hill. I have UTK and NAU still to go. I had sort of forgotten how much of a pain in the ass it is to get all of this crap together.

Oh well, you have to want it right?

laters.....

Supplies for the weekend.

I looked at the weather forecast today, and it looks like it is supposed to rain in East Tennessee on Saturday. It has been raining all week so far, but perhaps things will dry out a little bit. Last weekend I went to my uncle's house with Jonny and worked on some primitive fire-making. We used flint and steel and also a bow and drill. I am not really sure how many people have started a fire with a bow and drill, but I would say that is a pretty small number in the continental US.

It was actually a pretty inspiring weekend. I started three fires and made my own bow and drill kit. As far as hobbies go it doesn't get much more inexpensive than this. The reason I was looking into the weather this weekend is because I plan to make up some more tinder and char cloth. I might sneak over to my parent's house and take over part of their back yard. I need to make a campfire for a couple of hours to make the charcloth.

Last night I went and bout some materials for the firemaking. I got about 200 yards of jute twine. I will have to unravel this and sort of tease it into filaments like hair.

I also bought 2 yards of monk's cloth which is an untreated, woven, cotton cloth. This stuff will make great char cloth which can be used to catch sparks from flint and steel.

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Torin at 11 weeks, hanging out on the big boy bed. He really does change every day. It is an amazing thing to watch.