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So given that my job is, like many, made of stress, I'm thinking about taking a vacation.
Do I take normal vacations? Hell no.
See, what I'd do would be piggyback it onto the trip to Portland to see MCR on April 8. April 8, stay in Portland, April 9, drive to Cline Falls State Park (near Redmond, Oregon) and to Prineville Oregon. April 10, depending on vacation time actually available (ie, the time I do not have to devote to this crap job) drive home OR drive to Salt Lake City to see MCR April 11. Drive home April 12-13.
But see, the thing that makes this not normal is WHY I want to go to Cline Falls State Park and Prineville.
Cline Falls State Park - in 1977, the attempted axe murder of two young women, as documented in the book Strange Piece of Paradise and other sources, took place here.
Prineville, Oregon - home of the Hot Shot fire crew that lost nearly half (9 of 20) members to the South Canyon Fire (official name, but it actually took place on Storm King Mountain) as documented in Fire On The Mountain and probably other sources. There is a memorial both in Grand Junction, CO, and in Prineville, and, of course, there are the granite crosses on the mountain itself. It's sad that I'm actually really pleased to hear that the crosses are granite; the concrete crosses in Mann Gulch (Young Men And Fire), as of that book's writing, were crumbling from the harsh weather conditions of blizzards in winter and near-fatal heat in the summer, so even though the Fire Service has said they will replace the crosses in perpetuity, let's start with something a little better to begin with. However, I have no time to go to Colorado at the moment, and I suck at hiking, so I think I will settle for going to Mann Gulch (in Gates of the Mountains Wilderness, Montana) to go see an actual fire sight because somehow that will be better.
Though, looking at the map, if we go in April to Mann Gulch, we may not be able to get a boat down the river. Because it is not accessible by car!
All irrelevancies aside, I am not quite sure that this is a normal sort of vacation to take, particularly given that I really, really doubt that I will be able to sleep in Sisters, Redmond, Bend, Terrebonne, or Prineville, and there just ain't that many more towns in central Oregon.
But it will be the one I take, and that is what counts. And if I had more time to throw at it, I'd totally drive down Utah to near St. George and go to the site of the Mountain Meadows Massacre.
Relatedly, I've been trying to do the Seven Habits/Facts/Quirks meme that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sparkfrost tagged me for in, like, January, but somehow I got confused and thought it was Seven Things About Me That I Don't Journal About Much, which may or may not be an actual meme. Now that I have clarified it, I have no trouble with doing it, but the version I thought it was was damn hard, because things I don't journal about are, de facto, hard to journal about.
But I came up with some good ones, so you might be getting some short essays, if I can type them up. Which is, you know, the number one reason I want cybermods. I want to implant a jack directly into my brain that connects to the computer via Bluetooth and have it command Word or other documentation programs to write down my thoughts.
Or else I need an intern. Again. One that takes dictation.
Do I take normal vacations? Hell no.
See, what I'd do would be piggyback it onto the trip to Portland to see MCR on April 8. April 8, stay in Portland, April 9, drive to Cline Falls State Park (near Redmond, Oregon) and to Prineville Oregon. April 10, depending on vacation time actually available (ie, the time I do not have to devote to this crap job) drive home OR drive to Salt Lake City to see MCR April 11. Drive home April 12-13.
But see, the thing that makes this not normal is WHY I want to go to Cline Falls State Park and Prineville.
Cline Falls State Park - in 1977, the attempted axe murder of two young women, as documented in the book Strange Piece of Paradise and other sources, took place here.
Prineville, Oregon - home of the Hot Shot fire crew that lost nearly half (9 of 20) members to the South Canyon Fire (official name, but it actually took place on Storm King Mountain) as documented in Fire On The Mountain and probably other sources. There is a memorial both in Grand Junction, CO, and in Prineville, and, of course, there are the granite crosses on the mountain itself. It's sad that I'm actually really pleased to hear that the crosses are granite; the concrete crosses in Mann Gulch (Young Men And Fire), as of that book's writing, were crumbling from the harsh weather conditions of blizzards in winter and near-fatal heat in the summer, so even though the Fire Service has said they will replace the crosses in perpetuity, let's start with something a little better to begin with. However, I have no time to go to Colorado at the moment, and I suck at hiking, so I think I will settle for going to Mann Gulch (in Gates of the Mountains Wilderness, Montana) to go see an actual fire sight because somehow that will be better.
Though, looking at the map, if we go in April to Mann Gulch, we may not be able to get a boat down the river. Because it is not accessible by car!
All irrelevancies aside, I am not quite sure that this is a normal sort of vacation to take, particularly given that I really, really doubt that I will be able to sleep in Sisters, Redmond, Bend, Terrebonne, or Prineville, and there just ain't that many more towns in central Oregon.
But it will be the one I take, and that is what counts. And if I had more time to throw at it, I'd totally drive down Utah to near St. George and go to the site of the Mountain Meadows Massacre.
Relatedly, I've been trying to do the Seven Habits/Facts/Quirks meme that
sparkfrost tagged me for in, like, January, but somehow I got confused and thought it was Seven Things About Me That I Don't Journal About Much, which may or may not be an actual meme. Now that I have clarified it, I have no trouble with doing it, but the version I thought it was was damn hard, because things I don't journal about are, de facto, hard to journal about.But I came up with some good ones, so you might be getting some short essays, if I can type them up. Which is, you know, the number one reason I want cybermods. I want to implant a jack directly into my brain that connects to the computer via Bluetooth and have it command Word or other documentation programs to write down my thoughts.
Or else I need an intern. Again. One that takes dictation.
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If I'm coming back through at that point, maybe we should grab a coffee or something, but I'm not sure totally what my plans will be right now. Obviously. *g*
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I'm still applying for positions up there, but having about as much luck as I have with the job market down here. I've already told them that I won't move there without a job lined up.
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If it works out, it works out, and if it don't, it don't, but I hope you do make it - Portland's cool.