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Hey everybody – below is a map of my GPS positions for the last 24 hours. I couldn't find a clever way to superimpose the trail onto my GPS coordinates, so I'll add a google map of the trail below.
Where Butters' at?
Where's he's going?
Hey everybody – below is a map of my GPS positions for the last 24 hours. I couldn't find a clever way to superimpose the trail onto my GPS coordinates, so I'll add a google map of the trail below.
Where Butters' at?
Where's he's going?
So all good things come to an end.
It's been 55 days since I started walking at Springer Mountain Georgia. I ended up in Damascus Virginia 466 miles later. Of the 55 days since I started this adventure, I spent 40 days and nights in true wilderness. I took zero mile days in Hot Springs and Erwin, three days in Elk Park, and five days in Nashville, plus four days in Damascus at Trail Days. It was hard to leave the friends I've made and my ambitions of continuing on behind on the trail, but I'm at peace with the decision. Some day I'll go back and finish, maybe later this year, maybe next year, maybe five years from now. It'll happen on its own time.
Practical Lessons / Observations
I saw no bears but hallucinated plenty of them.
Nothing makes me feel more alive than night hiking in a thunder storm.
Rain and wet socks are really not that bad as long as the temperature stays above 45 degrees F.
If you hike 10+ miles a day, you can Snickers bars all day and still be in great shape and feel like a million bucks — I lost 9 pounds.
Bigger ahas.
The trail will give you exactly what you need when you need it. Maybe 5 minutes after I remarked that it would be great to have a trekking pole for the descent into Nantahala, one appeared. I saw and heard countless examples of this axiom.
Life is beautiful but it is also difficult. The beauty makes it worth the difficulty. The two days of relentless rain and cold in the Smokies were redeemed by the most beautiful rays of sunshine on Day 3.
There is nothing to be afraid of — for instance, solo camping was incredibly freaky at night, but in the morning when the sun came out I realized it was all in my head.
God is most powerfully present when he is most apparently absent.
Angels are alive. From Sweet Spot's (Candy Henderson) much needed shuttles to spirit-lifting trail magic along the way, the generosity I experienced on the trail was incredible.
Big Thanks
Thanks to the Mudbutt Crew for making the last month of the trip so fun. Shout outs to Firefox, Hambone, Sunshine Ninja, Baby Scrooge, W, Water Boy, Jabbs, Red Bull, Rollin, Strider, Sweet Spot, Yodel, Yukon, Love Machine, Sheep, Slopes, Slayer, Desperado, Micro, Eastwood, Byline, Lady Forward, Daffy, Tom, Firestarter and Bushwacker, Animal, Alyson, Brad G, the Chandlers, the Rosses, and everyone else I met along the way.
Day 51, Mile 456.
To close the loop on the beginning of the adventure to Nashville: Sweet Spot picked me up in Hampton TN (near Johnson City), we drove to North Georgia to pick up my car. On the way we passed through a number of trail towns and saw familiar sights and old friends.
Upon arriving at Amicalola State Park my car battery was dead (expected due to call from the ranger to home — apparently my lights came on during a storm). Worse the car was flooded (cause unknown) with an inch or two of water only on the driver side floorboards. As if the car decided to roll down the windows and roll them back up again? Anyways, we mopped up the water with our pack towels and jumped the car. The car started thankfully and other than some weird electrical issues (spontaneously engaging hazard lights for four hours provided the comedy for the four hour journey) and constantly sloshing water on Slopes feet in the back seat it made it home. However something is wrong with the battery because it won't hold a charge. If you leave it turned off it goes dead.
Needless to say car is in the shop. And I left my car at home for this next leg of the journey.
Settling back in to life on the trail. On Monday I drove a rental car up from Nashville with Slopes, Sheep, and Love Machine. I dropped them off and then returned the rental. After trying to hitch for a few minutes the sky opened up and I sheepishly secured a shuttle in a town car. He dropped me off where I left off at approximately 9pm. Rain had stopped and it felt good to be back on the trail. Night hiked up and over Pond Mountain through a violent and voracious thunderstorm….everything got wet and some stuff is still drying two days later! Trail welcoming me back I guess.
Tuesday morning hiked down to Watauga Lake and enjoyed some Gatorades and a Coke that were left as trail magic. Did about 15 miles and wound up at Iron Mountain shelter. Rain started about 9pm and I called it a night.
Today I hiked about 15 miles and also dashed to Shady Valley TN for a small resupply + burger. Burger was just ok.
Hitched back with a 2011 thru hiker headed for Trail Days.
Which brings me to Damascus, 10 miles north and the site of Trail Days which begins on Friday officially. It's the biggest event on the trail and full of workshops, free food, gear vendors. It's supposed to be awesome.
After Damascus I may try to get a ride back to Nashville and wrap up this journey – we will see. A part of me would like to continue on but I feel like I need to get home and move on to the next chapter. Really want to spend some time in Seattle this summer.
Hope everyone is well!
Spent the weekend in Nashville. Went to Lindsey's wedding, had a cookout to celebrate Erin's birthday, got a hair cut showered and shaved, caught up with friends.
Headed back to the trail for at least a few more weeks. Will have to download everyone on the crazy adventure to get my car back. Happy to be headed back out. Enjoy the before and after pictures. The beard is gone for a while!
This entry covers the section from Erwin TN to Elk Park NC.
Sitting by the side of the road waiting for a ride.
Left Erwin five days ago after taking a zero day. Walked with Firefox and Sunshine and we made it to the first shelter out of Erwin, which was tucked into a nice grove of rhododendron and spruce.
The next day we hiked 13 miles over Unaka Mountain. I saw an owl and a nest of baby phoedes (sp?). The climb up Unaka was strenuous, but the summit was an expansive spruce forest and really cool. Clouds started rolling in and I remarked to Firestarter and Bishwhacker that I sure hoped it wasn't going to rain. Soon thereafter the sky opened up and there was a thunderstorm. I huddled in a spruce grove and waited for the worst to pass. Cheese Wiz and Firefox came running down the trail and chilled with me for a minute to avoid the nickel sized hail. We made a run for it and my shoes were immediately drenched. We weren't far off from the next shelter and about an hour later we were dry and listening to Firestarter play the uke and cooking dinner and filling our bellies and all was good.
The next morning we had our sights set on food from Greasy Creek Hostel. On the way we encountered some trail magic and drank Cokes. We made it to Greasy Creek around 2pm and I ate a Cheesburger and a pint of Cherry Garcia. The hostel owner Connie was a hoot – she was an excellent cook, friendly as could be, and a great host. Apparently she has an unfriendly mentally ill neighbor that constantly tries to sabotage her operations. She showed us signs that he had made great pains to post on the trail that read things like: "Attn hikers. Greasy Creek Hostel is closed due to sickness" and "Hostel closed due to death in family… Please respect us during this time of profound grief. No calls or visits please." The food was great and well worth the trek… We avoided the crazy neighbor.
Leaving Greasy Creek around 3pm I wondered how I would make it to the top of Roan Mtn by nightfall. My shin started to hurt about 10 miles in so that only made matters worse. I finally made it to the base of Roan around 7pm at Hughes Gap and some nameless carless road.
The sunset hike up Roan was beautiful. The hillI began with broad switchbacks and a gently graded trail. I popped in Bon Iver and Jack Johnson in Concert on the iPod and jammed up the hill. The sun was setting beautifully through the spruce trees as the climb got steeper. As I was nearing the top of the bald I turned on my headlamp, which promptly stopped working (dead batteries). When my batteries get low, I'm still able to flash the headlamp on and off, so essentially I was hiking to a strobe light for the last 30 minutes of the journey. The bald didn't have expansive views and I couldn't see much anyways, but I sat in the unusually warm spring night, resting in the grass and enjoyed another moment of the clarity and serenity that comes when everything is just right, even when it isn't, headlamp out of commission and all. I stumbled for the last few minutes to camp and was grateful to hear familiar voices, yogi some new batteries, and tent in the spruce forest near the summit of Roan (probably the highest elevation I will camp at on the trail at 6200 feet).
The next day we hiked for 14 miles in a hurry to close in on Elk Park, where we planned to stay with Sunshine's family. We hit trail magic twice, both near the base of Roan – a class of middle schoolers from Bristol and a local couple. The hike was beautiful and climbed several balds with incredible views. I flushed a grouse for the first time. I ate lunch at a shelter and was soon joined by the band of hikers that had been at Roan the night before. We wrote a community postcard to the middle school science class that had provided trail magic and shared in the plunder.
We hiked on to Overmountain Shelter, a converted red barn with incredible views, and hung out there for several hours. We got motivated around 5pm and started off, despite the foreboding looming clouds. The rain started as we descended Little Hump and we could see lightning miles off in the distance. We decided to keep going as the weather looked more promising above Big Hump. So we started up the Bald, rain spitting horizontally into our ears wondering how stupid we had been for deciding to continue but stupefied also by the beauty of the clear skies to our left battling with the storm to our right. And then the storm literally vanished and we had a breathtaking hike off of Big Hump, spotted some white tailed deer near the summit, and walked for an hour or so longer descending Big Hump, off the bald, through the forest and camped near a cow pasture called Doll Flats. It was just the Elk Park Crew (Sunshine, Firefox, Hambone, and myself) and we had a fire and listened to music and stayed up too late – it was a nice end to one of the best days on the trail so far.
The following morning we rolled into Elk Park which has been an adventure in and of itself.
I heard a joke today that rings pretty true…. What's the difference between an AT thru hiker and a bum? The thru hiker wears Gore Tex. This is mostly accurate from our outside appearance after five days in the woods.
I'm at Mile 340. I've been really pushing it to see how many miles I could crank out in a day. I did a 21 miler, then another 20 miler in a crazy storm and the stickiest mud you can imagine, followed by a 16.5 mile day to get into town. I think I found my limit and will probably be doing more like 12-16 every day.
I'm still feeling strong but my body is definitely feeling it…. Something different every day… My right knee or shin, the blisters on the top of my feet. Point is I need to reduce the mileage a bit. Just to be clear lest I get worried calls from home, my aches and pains are minor…. Ie my shin starts hurting after walking ten miles.
So I am sitting on a bench outside Azteca Mexican restaurant in Erwin TN enjoying my day off. I spent the night at Uncle Johnny's Hostel last night and did a work for stay today. Basically I get to tent for free plus $20 for cleaning the cabins and emptying the trash. The bigger motivation for me was just to have something productive to do during the day while I took it easy.
This church group put on a trail magic event for lunch near the hostel which was awesome. I continue to have much gratitude for all the generosity I'm stumbling upon on the trail.
The thing about being up here is you're totally independent. For instance, I toshuttle ironing shuttle into town today from the hostel to a little deli. I missed the pick up from the deli. They were headed to the post office next. So I walked 2 miles to the post office. What do you know – they were still there. I hopped on and avoided a 6 mile walk back to the hostel. There's no helplessness out here – everything is walking distance over a long enough time period.
Day 29, approximately Mile 285
Hard to believe its been almost a month out here. I'm writing from Spring Mountain Shelter which is about 11 miles north of Hot Springs NC.
I spent a zero day in Hot springs which was much needed. I got into town on Sunday night after another day of rain. I was coming off of Bluff Mountain (about 5200 feet I think) and started to lose feeling in my fingers. Thought to myself when is this rain and cold going to end? I had packed up a soaking muddy tent that morning, wet shoes, 18 mile day, just need to power on to Hot Springs. I stood in a cave spring for about 20 minutes just watching the rain and the trees.
But just when you think things can't get any worse they seem to turn around… And the rain is always worse in retrospect than it is at the time anyways. But regardless, as I started coming off the mountain and the elevation dropped it got about 10 degrees warmer and I started feeling good, the sun poked through the clouds, I got another wave of energy. I am running down the mountain and making great time. I stopped at the last shelter before Hot Springs and wolfed down some tortillas and tropical trail mix and raced into town.
I got into Hot Springs around 7 and passed up a bunk at the first hostel, grabbed some food at the diner and saw a bunch of my trail friends. Subsequently learned that all the hostels were booked up and spent an hour still in wet shoes desperately looking for a bed. Ultimately splurged on a room at the Iron Horse Inn, a cool converted historic building with charming but small rooms. It was nice though to have a room to myself and a big cushy bed with hotel like linens, in contrast to all the other places I've stayed.
The second day in Hot Springs I stayed at Elmer's Sunnyside Inn which has been serving through hikers since the '40s. The Inn is a beautiful 1840s Victorian run by a liberal foodie named Elmer. I had a cool room to myself (until I invited Baby Scrooge to sleep on the floor) and read probably 1/3 of Walden, which really got my wheels turning. Elmer's was delightfully devoid of technology and was awesomely serene. I dried out my tent in the back which I had washed in the shower at the Iron. We ate a communal gourmet vegetarian dinner – I already knew most of the hikers there which was cool – Scrooge, Slayer, Desperado, Union Jill, True North, Chatterbox, Funnybone, Poco – to give you a flavor for trail names.
Today I resupplied and slack packed for the better part of the day. Firefox's family was in town and they drove our packs to the fire tower 9 miles north on the trail. So basically I got to walk without my pack for the better part of the day which was awesome. And Firefox's family was really cool and kind of made me miss my family and friends back home. Firefox's dad through hiked in the 70's and grew up in Hot Springs so made an excellent guide for this section of the trail.
Anyways, here I am happily reconnected with the Internet, back on the trail. Will be in Erwin TN in five days and then back in Nash around May 10. Oh, and apparently the lights came on on my car during a thunderstorm last week so my battery is dead. Getting AAA to Amicalola State Park and getting back to Nashville will be an adventure in itself, but alas can wait for another day.
Day 25 is winding down – I holed up at a tentsite near Standing Bear Farm Hostel in Hartford, TN. I'm tenting by myself for the first time, which is a little scary but I think will be good for me. I've got my knife right next to me which is presently serving as a bit of a safety blanket. Couldn't do another night in the hostel.
Today is 4/20 and the Hiker Bash is in full effect at the hostel. Just in case you keep more respectable company than myself and are unawares, April 20 is an annual celebration for marijuana smokers every where. So the crowd at the hostel is mostly stoned, almost certainly including the proprietors and probably Biscuit the miniature Rotweiler and especially the cat.
But back to the trail. The last time I checked in I was in Fontana Dam, NC at the southern edge of the Smokies. Alyson and Brad met up with me at the shelter there. At the moment I was sitting on the beach playing Hot Coo (sp? — a game that involves passing a hot coal around a circle… Like hot potato but with coals) and had just witnessed Water Boy, Eastwood, and Shakespeare drunkenly Skinny polar bear into Fontana Lake. When they wandered up I believe Shakespeare was still dancing to Eye of the Tiger in his underpants. Needless to say, it wouldn't appear that this promised to be the beginning of a spiritual journey for any of the parties involved. I have a video of this I am unbelievably tempted to post but will probably not… If I do it is not suitable for work.
Alright, the Smokies. Day 1 was a big uphill climb out of Fontana. I felt really strong and was surprised by how well Alyson and Brad did considering the 3000 or so foot elevation gain. We got to Mollies Ridge shelter around 6 and ate a delicious dinner that Brad hauled in …. Steak, potatoes, bratwurst, awesome! It was an unbelievably windy night with tents and rainflys flapping noisily.
Day 2 we hiked over some really nice balds and unfortunately Alyson strained her ankle and spent the next day and a half slowly and steadily conquering the remaining miles.
Day 3 we got to Clingmans Dome, the highest point on the AT. Alyson drove Sweet Spot and I into Cherokee (21 miles east) and said our goodbyes. I resupplied on cigarettes and hitched back to Clingmans. I thought I was going to have all the way back after the first discouraging mile but ultimately I got picked up by the Riggs, two 70 something brothers who were helicopter pilots from Sevierville, TN. They gave me their Big Mac meal which I devoured and dropped me at Newfound Gap, the mid point on the road to Gatlinburg that intersects the AT. I hitched up to Clingmans with a nice couple from Wisconsin. Four miles and made it to Mt Collins shelter which was beautiful and nestled in a spruce forest. I found an awesome tent site in the pine needles and stayed dry despite some showers that drenched others' tents.
Ok, the next two days it rained. The sky opened up, I walked in the rain at least 50% of the time. By rain day 2 everything in my possession was essentially drenched, I had given up trying to hopscotch around the puddles, hallucinating and slightly hypothermic, the fog swallowed every beautiful ridge line view into an abyss, I had never been happier or sadder, more alive and dead, positive or glum all at once. I realized that life is difficult but it is also beautiful, the beauty makes it worth the difficulty.
By the end of day 2 I am literally staggering over what had become of the AT, now the Appalachian River, putting one foot in front of the other, cursing God for having forsaken me (apparently I am melodramatic when wet?). But at the same time there was no past or future as if part of my brain had shut off and I was happily trodding through the rain. Cold night in shelter with everything wet except my sleeping bag and down jacket. Everyone was exhausted and crashed at about 830.
I plugged a roof leak over my head with duct tape.
The next day was all about getting out of the Smokies to eliminate the funk, get dry etc. The sun came out, life was beautiful, I didn't even really care about getting back to civilization I was so grateful to be out of the fog. We made a brief detour to the Mt Cammerer lookout tower and then hiked for another 10 miles to Standing Bear Farm Hostel.
I took a day off today which is probably good. I'm halfway to Damascus, VA which was my goal before coming back to Nash. I have 19 miles to cover the remaining 220 miles which shouldn't be too bad.
Miss everyone and hope I didn't worry too many of you for being disconnected for a few days – my footprints don't move if my phone battery is dead, Mom 🙂
North Carolina has amazing mountaintops called balds that are mysteriously devoid of trees. The forest service has kept up Siler Bald – check out the photos and video:
Camping at Siler Bald Shelter, Mile 114 from Springer. It's crazy to me that I've hiked over 100 miles since I started.
The AT is easy. You're like a space monkey, you get into this routine. No stress, just pack up your stuff and walk, eat, walk, chill at campfire, relax, eat, sleep, push a button get a treat. People are friendly, scenery is spectacular, life is beautiful.
The AT is hard. You hike up and over every mountain in your path. Your legs and knees are constantly tight. You're away from home, a little homesick, you feel alone sometimes even in a crowd of people. The food is what you make of it. You hike whether or not you feel like it, through the rain, wet blistered feet. You stink. People snore.
Anyways, I'm taking the good with the bad and still having fun and staying positive.


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Jordan Landau has a crap job, a shrewish boss and a dud boyfriend, but when she gets hit by a car and takes a nasty knock to her noggin, things start to look up in Crane's bubbly second novel (after Stupid and Contagious). Jordan, she of the nutty family and unsatisfying junior copywriting job, fakes amnesia and parlays her "condition" into a better position at the ad agency where she works, a better boyfriend (longtime beau Dirk, who is one-note awful, also tries to take full carnal advantage of Jordan's amnesia, but fails) and an all-around better lifestyle. The setup generates a few chuckles, but no real surprises. Readers in the mood for a light and goofy romantic comedy will find a thin one between these covers. (Aug.)Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information
Forget about Itby Caprice Crane
Jordan Landau is having a bad life. At twenty-five, she is attractive, smart, funny and talented. But all that doesn't keep her mother from calling her fat, her boss from stealing her ideas, and her boyfriend from cheating on her. Day in and day out, she sits back and watches as everyone walks all over her. Then one day while riding her bike home
Jordan Landau is having a bad life. At twenty-five, she is attractive, smart, funny and talented. But all that doesn't keep her mother from calling her fat, her boss from stealing her ideas, and her boyfriend from cheating on her. Day in and day out, she sits back and watches as everyone walks all over her. Then one day while riding her bike home from a particularly awful day, Jordan collides with a car door and is knocked clear off her bicycle. Coming to in the hospital, Jordan realizes she has a perfect excuse for a "do-over"; she vows to fake amnesia and reinvent herself. And it works. Finally, Jordan is able to get the credit she deserves at work, and she stands up to her family and her jerk boyfriend. She's living the life she always dreamed ofuntil the unthinkable happens. Suddenly Jordan must start over for real, and figure out what really makes her happyand how to live a truly memorable life.
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Forget About It
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Chapter One my first marriage
I got married when I was seven years old. I remember it like it was yesterday. I married my next-door neighbor Todd Beckett. Typically male (though atypically unaware of the delights of conjugal benefits, as that wasn't in our second grade curriculum), Todd was against the whole affair-totally commitmentphobic-but he went along with it since we had nothing better to do that day. My best friend, Catherine Parker, presided over the ceremony.
It was the middle of July, but it was perfect wedding weather: breezy, seventy-five degrees, and a clear blue sky. I felt lucky that I could wear my best outfit-cutoff Jordache jeans shorts and a rainbow-striped bathingsuit top. Cat wore her favorite color-patched Dolphin shorts and a handme- down Van Halen T-shirt that wasn't handed down as much as appropriated from her older brother, and Todd wore a Hang Ten shirt and cords. The ideal weather was lost on him; Todd always wore corduroy pants and Vans no matter what the outside temperature was.
The ceremony was set up in my parents' backyard right under the swing set, where we stood before Cat, who eyed us gravely and began: "And do you, Jordan? Jordy Belly' Landau, take Todd Beckett to be your awfully wedded husband, to have and to hold, in sickness and in health, till death do you part?" I forgave Cat for invoking the jelly bean? inspired nickname my stepfather had given me-I knew she was mad that she had to play justice of the peace rather than bride.
"I do," we each said.
"I now pronounce you man and wife. You may now kiss the bride. And you have to hold it for three Mississippi seconds."
And then we kissed. Well, our lips touched, and we didn't move a muscle as Catherine counted out one Mississippi, two Mississippi, three Mississippi. And that was that. Me, barefoot with flowers in my hair. A simple ceremony. No family arguments. No stressing over having invited too many people. No registry nightmares. No problems. But there was cake. We'd always seen couples in movies smearing cake all over each other's face, and we thought that was an integral part of getting married.
"Time for the cake!" Cat shouted, and we geared up to get messy. I had taken two chocolate Sara Lee cakes from the freezer and set them out to thaw about an hour before our ceremony. I'd placed one right on top of the other in an attempt to create the tiered effect of wedding cakes I'd seen in movies. I surreptitiously swiped at my confection's doubledecker side and popped a sugar-coated finger in my mouth. They were thawed and ready. So I took a handful of cake and smeared it all over Todd. Then he took a fistful and smeared it back on me, careful not to get any in my hair. At first. Until he noticed how much I appreciated his keeping my carefully feathered bangs icing free. Good-bye, feathers, hello, frosting. Cat dared to laugh, so we both smeared a few handfuls over her. Partly for revenge, but mostly so she wouldn't feel left out.
I remember that we'd recently seen The Karate Kid Part II, and there was some kind of ceremonial bonding ritual in the movie where a Jap an ese couple drank tea from each other's cups, so we thought that maybe we should have a bonding ritual too. It was too hot for tea, so Todd and I each chewed a piece of grape Hubba Bubba bubble gum, blew a bubble, and then moved in close to each other so that our bubbles would touch and stick together-thus bonding the two of us for life. And as a wedding present Todd gave me a whole unopened pack of Watermelon Wave Bubblicious.
It was a hell of a day. What I remember most is how simple it all was. It probably took two minutes from my hatching the day's activity to "I do." That was before I had the chance to be scared I may have gotten pregnant from our three-second kiss. The more I thought about it, the more nervous I got, so I grabbed Todd and tugged at his arm.
"Do you think I could have just gotten pregnant from that kiss?" I whispered.
"I don't know. Do you?" he asked.
"If I knew, I wouldn't be asking." And we stood there and looked at each other for a moment, Todd's eyes blinking, eyebrows raised.
Then he shrugged. "Well, we did just get married, so if you are pregnant, I guess it's okay. I think it would be worse if we weren't already married."
"I think so too," I said.
Problem solved. The celebration resumed, and we consummated our marriage with a game of tag.
My marriage to Todd was perhaps my way of trying to create a union more perfect, or at least less disastrous, than my own parents' marriage. I remember the day my first dad sat me down and put a hand on each of my shoulders. He looked me square in the eye and said, "Jordan, I want you to know that I love you very much, and I want you to always remember that." I remember feeling a sense of dread, although I didn't know what the feeling was exactly-I just knew it didn't feel good, so I distracted myself by studying the hairs that were growing just a teensy bit too far out of his nose. "Do you know that, Jordan? Do you know that I love you as much as I'm capable of?" he asked. I blinked and watched the one gray hair that was peeking out of his left nostril like a little mouse amid the other black ones, checking to see if the coast was clear. " Jordan?"
"Yes, Daddy."
"You understand that?"
"Uh-huh ...?" I said, with less certainty then he'd probably have liked.
"I may not see you for a while," he continued, "but that doesn't mean I won't be out there somewhere ..." His words then drifted off with a theatrical pause. His nose hairs whistled slightly in the silence. I was mesmerized. Then he snapped back, ready to make his final point. "I just want to make sure you know that you are loved by your father, so that you don't grow up to be a man-hating lesbian."
I was barely five. A million thoughts raced through my head-a million questions that I wanted to ask him-but I felt paralyzed. Why are you telling me this? Where are you going? When will you be back? What is a lesbian? And most important, are you ever going to cut your nose hairs?
Nothing came out of my mouth. Well, none of the elevendy-million questions that whirled through my brain like a meteor shower, blasting through my mind until they'd exhausted their energy and faded away. The only thing I uttered was "Okay."
And he nodded, said, "Good girl," and then he was gone.
When my mom came in from the backyard a few minutes later, she didn't believe me when I told her that I didn't think Daddy was coming home. She got angry at me for saying such a terrible thing and asked me if I "thought I was a psychic." I told her no. I told her that I wasn't a psychic and I wasn't a lesbian-because even though I didn't know what either thing was, it just seemed like the right thing to say and I could tell my mom needed some reassurance.
"WHAT?" she yelled. And then I explained-told her everything he'd said, as nearly as I could recall it-and I must have captured the sense of it pretty well because afterward she went into the bathroom and cried for three and a half hours.
When she finally came downstairs, her face was dry and her head held high. She'd obviously spent some time in her fancy clothing closet; she wore a black dress I'd never seen with a double strand of pearls around her neck. The effect was classy with just a hint of sexy-and frankly this moment destroyed the little black dress for me forever. She took me into my room, put my fancy velvet party dress on me, and combed and fastened my hair with two ribbon barrettes. She then sat me down and told me that we were starting over. And that was exactly what we did.
Three years later I had a brand-new life, complete with a new house, a new dad, and a new baby sister. You'd think I'd be scarred from all this, and maybe I am, but at the time I really didn't suffer. Walter Landau quickly came into our lives, married my mom, and told me to call him Dad. My mom called him my "new and improved dad," but I didn't really see what had been so bad about the old one. He gave me Mrs. Butterworth, a brown mixed-breed mutt of a dog who had a white stripe on her head that looked like nougat. Mrs. B. was my best friend in the world. She sat under my feet at the dinner table, followed me everywhere- even if I was just going to the bathroom, where she'd wait outside the door-and slept with me every night. I had a happy family, my best friend, Cat, and my new husband, Todd.
Cat, Todd, and I were the three musketeers. We did everything together. Cat and I were polar opposites, lookswise. I had long brown hair, and she was blond. I was fair with freckles all across my nose, and she was perpetually tan. We were both about the same height, but she was always thinner than I was. We became blood sisters by pricking our fingers and holding them together. We were too young to know about AIDS and how that sort of contact might not be the best idea, but that was a simpler time when the first grade was considered early to be having unprotected sex and shooting heroin, so everything turned out okay.
My wedding had taken place a month before my birthday, and I remember that for that particular birthday I desperately wanted a metallicblue Schwinn bicycle with a banana seat and a white wicker basket with neon flowers on it. I wanted that bike more than anything in the world, and when my dad told me to go outside to get the newspaper that fateful morning, I caught my first glimpse of my dream bike-the coveted Schwinn. I shrieked a joyous victory scream so loud it set off a river of tears from my baby half sister, kicking off a bitter rivalry that would last for two decades.
My memories of childhood are mostly pleasant up to that time, and I half suspect it's because they're not memories at all but stories built up around photographs and home movies I've seen. Because the truth is that after my father walked out on my mom and me, she cultivated a deepseated fear of abandonment and destitution. She responded by becoming an abject materialist in every aspect of her life, and my new family would essentially become an uneasy alliance between a man who made a lot of money and two women who liked to spend it-those women being Mom and my sister, Samantha, who would grow into a carbon copy of my mother. And then there was me. I was in the mix with them, but more like a leftover ingredient from the failed family than a perfectly blended addition to the new one. Maybe that was all just in my head. Like the time Samantha told me that my father must have had some seriously powerful ugly going on for me not to have gotten any of Mom's good genes. Maybe that was just sisterly ribbing. If the issuing of cracked ribs is normal between sisters.
If our memories were true records of everything we've seen and felt, a lot of us would probably be overwhelmed or even horrified by what was going on. But I arrived at my eighth birthday in good spirits. Though I already had my first set of wheels, my first day of school, and first marriage ... my first car, first job, and first sexual indiscretion were still years away.
Life was good. I loved being me.
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This book is by far one of the most hysterical books I have ever read. At moments where the story line became serious, something funny would happen where I would literally laugh out loud. I don't read much, but I loved reading this book, and anyone who loves books with realistic and witty characters should definitely read Forget About It.
When I first started reading ¿forget about it¿ by Caprice Crane I didn¿t think I would really be able to relate to the main character, Jordan. I mean, what does a small town southern girl know about living in New York City? Nada! But, gladly, I was sadly mistaken! In Jordan, Ms. Crane has created a character that I think just about any woman can identify with, whether you be a southern hick or slick New Yorker. And it¿s not just Jordan. ¿Forget About It¿ is chock full of hilarious, real, and strangely believable characters, from the lyric singing homeless woman to the super-selfish-bitch sister, the queen-of-criticism-mother, and the super-sexy-totally-creepy-mega-jerk-boyfriend. Team the great characters with the outrageously inspired storyline and Ms. Cranes unique wittiness and superb storytelling skill and you have an instant hit! I read the book in one sitting I just couldn¿t put it down. Not only that, I got so into the book I found myself talking back to it, yelling, ¿You go girl!¿ and ¿Oh, my God!¿ many times throughout the book while rolling with laughter! If I could only recommend one book this year, it would definitely be ¿Forget About It¿!
I actually bought this one from the bargain section..having a gift card ha!I have actually paid more money for other books that I could do without but this one I paid less and I could read over and over again. Caprice Crane got this one absolutely right. The characters were very real..like any one of them could have easily been your best friend. I had to tell my husband some parts of it because he was looking at me like I was crazy because I laughed out loud so often! There were also some pretty insightful lines and opinions that you wouldn't expect from something that's meant to be a light and funny read. I loved it very much. The ending was great too...being the hopeless romantic that I am <3
Wow... this book was awesome! I was a little iffy about it at first when I read the back because it had sounded very similar to some books i read (with the whole amnesia thing), but it was GREAT! I can't tell you how many times i laughed out loud while reading it. If you're looking for a book to get your mind off of things and make you laugh, THIS IS IT!
Before reading "Forget about it", I had read a book that had a depressing tone and needed a good laugh. I read this book in 2 sittings. It's a very easy read. Everyone can relate to maybe changing some aspect of their lives. Can't wait to see what else Caprice Crane has in store for the future.
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You can read the summary to see what the storyline is. I mostly liked the tone, the pace, the New York setting, although I thought the set-up dragged too long. Jordan's got a crappy life because she doesn't stand up for herself, we get it. I liked Jordan's wit and creativity, and I loved Travis and his lighthouse. What I didn't "get," despite the neglected/emotionally abused childhood, is why a woman with so much going for her would be quite so passive. The bad guys were a little too bad; they needed some redeeming qualities that would have helped explain her ambivalence at blowing them off. And the idea that somebody would be able to fake amnesia well enough to fool not only laypeople but doctors... pretty unbelievable. That she would then get REAL amnesia, AND that she would recover her memory JUST as she was walking down the aisle, about to marry the wrong guy... too many impossible things before breakfast, for me. I *would* read another book by this author, however.
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A group of teachers and students traveled to Des Moines last month to attend Governor Branstad's summit on bullying. They met with members of the district and community on Tuesday to discuss the summit and actions the district should take proactively against bulling within the Spencer school district.
"Our bullying situation isn't necessarily worse than other districts, but we want to make sure the situations that do arise are handled," Spencer Superintendent Terry Hemann said.
At the top of the list is education, making the students aware of the steps taken when a bullying situation is reported.
"We want to spend some time talking about what the school does when there are incidences in bullying," Hemann said. "We can't always be specific as to what each situation will hold, but we can generalize."
In each individual situation, the district is legally unable to disclose the repercussions with the victim or the victim's family.
"The biggest thing is not about infractions or punishments," Hemann said. "It's about turning the situation into a learning experience."
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One note that the traveling group took away from the Des Moines summit is the importance of empowering the "up-stander." A play on the term "by-stander," an "up-stander" is a third party who sees a bullying situation happening and steps in to support the victim. The term, and the note, came from summit speaker Paul Gausman, superintendent at Sioux City Community School District.
The district plans on taking time to train students and staff for recognizing bullying within the school, and parents for understanding social media.
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Bullying has been an issue for years, though the rise of social media has "given bullying a stage."
Hemann noted that Spencer schools has had six to eight district-wide reported cases of bullying in the past semester. The state will release district-by-district statistics of reported bullying cases for the last semester on Dec. 15.
"Not necessarily all of our reported cases were founded," Hemann said, "but I'm curious to see where we fall within the state."
A state-wide statistic on bullying was released earlier this year, though Spencer plans to survey their students between fourth and 12th grade.
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Reception: Sunday, April 7, 2:00-4:00 pm, Hershberger Gallery. Seniors Abbie Miller, Ben Adams, Daniel Buschert, Juan Carlos Diaz Quezada, and Sara Soto will present artwork in an exhibit that is the culmination of their studio work at Goshen College. Abbie Miller is from Wellman, Iowa and is graduating with an art major and women's … Keep reading »
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A wide variety of vintage and antique quilts, mostly Mennonite and Amish, that have been inherited from friends and relatives by members of the group Mennonite Women, who meet monthly at College Mennonite Church, Goshen, to quilt and do other handwork to support charitable causes. The exhibit includes quilting accessories and a few antique blanket … Keep reading »
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Singing music from multiple regions of the world, the Goshen Choirs will again explore the large palette of sounds available to the human voice in the ninth annual EARTHTONES choral concert on Saturday, April 13 at 7:30 p.m. in Goshen College Music Center's Sauder Concert Hall.
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Spring mainstage play 'The Diviners' focuses on water during the Depression
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The Federal Trade Commission's proposed revisions of the rules that implement the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) is well-meaning and well-timed. It's well-meaning in that the FTC truly does care about the privacy and safety of children and it's well-timed in that it's the first revision since COPPA was implemented back in 1999 during the days of Web 1.0. Back then there was no Facebook and no smartphone apps. There were websites, including some that were using information collected from children to send them marketing pitches, which is why Congress decided to clamp down with a law that requires verifiable parental consent before a site could collect personally identifiable information from children under 13.
Over the last several months, the FTC has been taking another look at COPPA, seeking to update it to modern times and, in August, issued a proposed set of new rules.
As I wrote at the time, the new rules recognized some of the changes such as the role of apps and third-party plug-ins and sought to add Internet protocol addresses (IP address) to the list of "persistent identifiers" that also includes tracking cookies that are used to display ads based on a user's behavior, in some cases on sites other than the site displaying the ad.
I also mentioned some unintended negative consequences of the rule changes, which my prompted my ConnectSafely.org co-director Anne Collier and me to submit an official comment for the FTC to consider as it finalizes its rule changes.
Unintended consequences & ConnectSafely's FTC comment
Our comment, which we've posted on ConnectSafely.org, outlines our concerns about the unintended consequences for both children and small businesses that create apps for mobile and social networking platforms. While we are sympathetic to the (mostly) small businesses that create apps, our primary concern is, of course, for children and we believe that over-regulation could actually jeopardize children's privacy and safety. I know that sounds a bit far reaching but consider that the proposed rules could -- among other things -- require parents to verify the identify of children who click on YouTube videos if those videos are embedded on sites aimed at children -- a common practice.
Requiring that parents submit child's name and age to both the site operator and to the source of the embed, is a "remedy" that's more harmful than the disease it seeks to cure. Currently, Google and virtually every other site on the Internet (including this one) gets the IP address of every visitor. In theory, it could be possible to identify the household or device of that individual in some cases, but in practice is extremely difficult and generally requires a court order. But if the FTC requires parents to verify their child's identity, that very information the rule is attempting to protect, will in fact be disclosed. That doesn't protect children; it makes them more vulnerable.
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"An updated COPPA rule should make it practical for platform operators such as Apple, Google and Facebook to enable parents to provide verifiable consent to the platform which can then pass it on to app developers -- most of whom are very small businesses with few if any resources for collecting consent on their own -- with the understanding that the developers must adhere to COPPA guidelines or be subject to being kicked off the platform as well as to any potential civil or criminal consequences.
Our comment also covers the chilling impact that the rules could have on small businesses that offer education and entertainment resources to children. We worry that the cost of compliance will discourage legitimate businesses from catering to children while having no impact on sleazy businesses that will continue to violate the privacy of children and other visitors. Of course kids will continue to seek content, but if well-meaning legitimate businesses fail to provide it, kids could be driven "underground" to sites -- perhaps some operating from outside the United States -- that are only more than happy to "serve" and potentially exploit them.
COPPA could be "so 2012"
Finally, we worry that an overly specific set of COPPA rules could quickly render the legislation obsolete in the face of ever-changing technology. We do support a broad framework that requires sites to operate ethically but we also feel that there needs to be an on-the-ground constant conversation involving the stakeholders including the sites and apps, parents and the kids themselves. As we said in our comment: "The last thing we want is for people to look back at COPPA revisions a few years from now and say, 'that's so 2012.'"
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There are divers psalms which are thought to have been penned in the latter days of the Jewish church, when prophecy was near expiring and the canon of the Old Testament ready to be closed up, but none of them appears so plainly to be of a late date as this, which was penned when the people of God were captives in Babylon, and there insulted over by these proud oppressors; probably it was towards the latter end of their captivity; for now they saw the destruction of Babylon hastening on apace (Ps. 137:8), which would be their discharge. It is a mournful psalm, a lamentation; and the Septuagint makes it one of the lamentations of Jeremiah, naming him for the author of it. Here I. The melancholy captives cannot enjoy themselves, Ps. 137:1, 2. II. They cannot humour their proud oppressors, Ps. 137:3, 4. III. They cannot forget Jerusalem, Ps. 137:5, 6. IV. They cannot forgive Edom and Babylon, Ps. 137:7-9. In singing this psalm we must be much affected with the concernments of the church, especially that part of it that is in affliction, laying the sorrows of God's people near our hearts, comforting ourselves in the prospect of the deliverance of the church and the ruin of its enemies, in due time, but carefully avoiding all personal animosities, and not mixing the leaven of malice with our sacrifices.
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Loving Fish is that possible?
I wonder if I love my Fish will it love me back or just don't care?
post #2 of 25 Old 05-20-2010, 03:12 PM
Well the fish will just see you for food ... But that dosnt mean you carnt love your fish ;)
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post #3 of 25 Old 05-20-2010, 04:45 PM
I believe my betta loves me. He gets so excited when I walk into the room! I refuse to believe he's just using me for food!! :P
post #4 of 25 Old 05-20-2010, 05:10 PM
I know that my fish, my dog, and my two cats see giant food coming at them when they see me. But I love them anyway. :P
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I'm pretty sure my fish love me. I mean I take care of them just like I'm their dad.feeding, tank cleaning, spending money on, loving , taking care of when sick, the things parents do I do.
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post #6 of 25 Old 05-20-2010, 06:10 PM
I think your fish loves you! But all fish have their personalities.
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post #8 of 25 Old 05-21-2010, 11:26 AM
Well, if we want to get all technical and scientifical about it....'Love' is a complex human emotion. Its been proven bettas are intelligent, can recognize their owners and owners voices, feel stress and pain, but we need to remember, most animals don't think and process things like we do....so its not that they 'don't love you' or 'don't care', its just that they literally can't love.
...If that makes sense :P lol, I fail at explaining things.
So bettas learn to associate you with food, and therefore get excited when they see you in the hopes of getting something to eat.....because the little buggers are bottomless pits :P
...If that makes sense :P lol, I fail at explaining things.
So bettas learn to associate you with food, and therefore get excited when they see you in the hopes of getting something to eat.....because the little buggers are bottomless pits :P
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My betta loves me, he's told me. [; (Betta Bug-I have it baaadd.)
Decided to get back into Betta's since Squirt died. It's been a few years but I'm excited
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Dear Reader,
there are many Linux boards on the market: Bifferboard, NanosG20, Foxboard, Beagleboard, AlixPC, Android phones and tablets, routers, netbooks, and most recently the Raspberry Pi. How to decide what to choose?
So far the nicest solution I have found is one of the world's smallest pocket routers TP Link WR703N.
Cheapest in price 25 USD, nice looking 5x5x2 cm plastic box, internal Wifi. Can be ordered on Ebay, shipping is free and it arrives from HongKong in a month. This router has a 400 MHz CPU, 4 MB flash (quite small), 32 MB RAM, 1 Ethernet, Wifi, 1 USB, 0.5 W power consumption. Powered via USB cable. Included power supply can be plugged in 110V or 220V.
It must be reflashed with OpenWRT Linux, where most necessary program modules exist, however not everything is compatible with Debian Linux. Can add USB hub, USB stick, USB HDD, USB sound card, bluetooth, webcam, 3G modem, 1-wire USB or serial module, connect to Arduino, set up Wifi client, place home webserver with php and rrdtool database on router. Live examples are here:
Home webserver:
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Limitations are that internal flash 8 MB is quite small, but can be extended using external USB flash stick or HDD. Compiling C code is not possible directly on router. Need to cross compile and then is a chance that executable might not work. All small-scale hardware has some bugs. Not all things work as supposed, for example, Wifi client configuration does not work using Luci configuration interface, need to manually edit config files. Usually need to spend one day to work around some particular bug. Experience also that router's flash gets a fatal error in 3 months, if saving is done once in 5 min. If need to save frequently should save into RAM or USB HDD and only once and while backup on flash. OpenWRT trunk changes every day and often new bugs appear. So I have made a backup of somewhat older, but stable version
Actually now the version Attitude Adjustment Beta 12.09 on openwrt site is OK and looks like it is permanent.
Digest zip file (340 MB) holds information about setting up different functions on WR703N:
00 Introduction links
01 Flashing OpenWRT, vi, nano
02 Open WR703N cover & solder serial RX TX CP2102
02 Network
02 USB Hub
03 USB flash, HDD, system overlay
04 curl, lftp, samba, bittorrent transmission, NAS, Dropbox, Twitter
04 uhttpd and lighttpd webserer with php5
05 webcam, video
06 Bluetooth
06 mouse, keyboard, PIR, photodiode
06 sound card
07 GPIO, hardware schematics, 1wire, i2c, SPI
08 Digitemp 1wire temperature with CP2102
09 DS9490R 1wire bus adapter
10 Arduino
11 Graphing dataplots Pachube, rrdtool, Google charts, Sarmalink
12 Gmail control of USB relay board
13 sending email
14 compile your own OpenWRT distribution
15 compile C program module
16 Python install on USB HDD
17 Lua programming language for Luci
18 uci
20 Robotics WiFi remote controlled car
70 nice Webpage designs
80 example WR703N setups
90 smart home, alarms, baby monitor
91 Long term reliability
92 LinkDuino customization by Squonk
93 mr3020 similar to wr703n
Raspbery Pi
Much advertisized in press as the cheapest, but it is a circuit board only, needs power supply, HDMI and network cables, SD card, enclosure, WiFi, keyboard, mouse. So together it is ca 80 EUR.
Experience is that Arduino is best in reliability. It never hangs. With Ethernet shield can make IP-controlled power outlet for your home server remote reboot. I have written also Instructable about Arduino AVR webserver. Arduno can be interfaced to WR703N router via USB. Can process analog inputs, 1-wire temperature sensors, control switches, servo motors, and a small display. However serial communication between Arduino and router hangs after some unregular time. Hanging happens only if Arduino reset is disabled. Solution might be to enable reset and write some values that should not be lost into EEPROM. Please have a look at my summarised Instructable about Arduino:
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For example eeePC with Ubuntu, 13W consumption. HDD is faster than flash, runs for 1 year on heavy load. Best compatibility, reliability, speed. Also monitor and keyboard. WiFi client works out of the box. But wifi sometimes hangs. And eeePC does not power up without manually pressing a button. So someone has to be present at home and can not do remote reset via GSM box.
eeePC has no boot rom function to restart power, need to press a button. So actually best solution if electricity use if not concerned would be a desktop PC.
Another recommendation running reliably is Beagleboard or Beaglebone with USB HDD.
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Can get for ca 60 EUR for Example Samsun i5500.
Disadvantage - Android SDK programming complicated. Option is to install Ubnuntu in a loop drive on sd,
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2. Its rates of return in the Marcellus shale have been 40 percent in the ricj gas area to 90 percent in the highly rich condensate area. In the Utica shale, the rates of return are about 100 percent in the rich gas area to more than 200 percent in the highly rich condensate area.
3. Company has been drilling the longest laterals in the Macrellus shae. It averaged 7,100 feet for the 34 wells completed in the third quarter.
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5. Antero has plans to add first compression facility in the Utica shale. Those plans should be outlined by the end of November. It is looking at 120 million cubic feet per day.
6. Antero has drilled 250 miles of laterals in West Virginia and has encountered no faulting in the rock. That is a major advantage, officials said.
7. Acquiring additional Utica shale acreage will be difficult, Antero said.
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Rig Count Interactive Map by Baker Hughes, an energy services company.
Shale Sheet Fracking, a Youngstown Vindicator blog.
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Concerned Citizens of Medina County, a grass-roots group.
No Frack Ohio, a Columbus-based grass-roots group.
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In recent years there has been a trend towards consolidation, both within the generics industry itself, and between the generics industry and the branded industry. This has been a trend born of necessity, reflecting both the difficult economic environment and the slowdown in development of innovative drugs. Without doubt, the most important and largest acquisition to have taken place over the last year has been the merger between Watson Pharmaceuticals and Actavis. The merger has created a company with revenues for the year ended 31st December 2012 of just over US$5.9 billion.
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