Space Stations

I cannot make pancakes without singing John Denver's Thank God Ima Country Boy.

Well, I got me a fine wife
I got me ol' fiddle
Sun's comin' up, I got cakes on the griddle.

Except I was cooking them at like 10:30.

But what if the sun did come up at 10:30?
And set at 2:00?
Then it'd be like Yakutsk in the winter!

I know I talk about Yakutsk too much. I'm just kind of fascinated by extreme places.

I'm reading this book called Three Cups of Tea and a lot of it, especially in the beginning, talks about the glaciers in Baltistan and hunting ibex and mountaineering and yak dung fires and losing fingers to frosbite.
Really great stuff. Stuff you'd never see on this side of the international date line.

What would it be like to live in such an extreme place all the time?
I think they age a lot quicker.
But then they get to eat delicious Pakistani food like creamy moong dal and butter chicken.
And they get to walk around and see K2 in their backyard.

K2 is the second highest mountain on earth. Mount Everest gets all the fame and glory for being #1, but K2 is probably just as tough to summit, if not harder.
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Or so I've heard/read.

Steps to Getting a Haircut:

1. Think about getting a haircut.
2. Spend the next three weeks agonizing about finding just the right picture to hand the hairdresser.
3. Consider doing it yourself.
4. Put your hair up in a ponytail and try to forget about how long it is.
5. See that the hours for Great Clips are 9-9 every week day so you could totally go after work one day.
6. Don't go after work.
7. Take a day off from work instead.
8. Tell yourself you should do something productive on your day off, like get a haircut.
9. Check in online.
10. Spend another 45 minutes downloading haircut pictures on your phone.
11. Go get your haircut.
12. Spend the next half hour or so deciding if it looks okay.
13. Chop an additional 2 inches off on the sides because the lady didn't layer it right.
14. Resolve to just do it yourself from now on.
15. Live with it.

True story.

Sitting down to read one night:

Me: Where are we?
Mike: I don't know where I am. I need to go find myself.
Me: Take a year off and go find yourself backpacking in Europe?
Mike: Yeah. Find myself in the jungle.
Me: .........................................................
Mike: What, are there no jungles in Europe?
Me: Not really. I mean, there are forests, but when I think of jungle, I think of a rain forest with like a canopy and howler monkeys.
Mike: Where two or more trees are gathered, there is a jungle.

Always been like a hummingbird, and I can't keep still,
TWS

Hummingbird; The Weepies