6/2/09
First of all. I feel great. I’m happy. Life is good.
The bump was this: My Dad showed up in the workspace I’ve been bivouacing in for the past month and told me it was time to pack up my stuff and leave. He said that my attitude was intolerable and that it was too much [...]
6/28/09
The old Belleville Cabin in Holcomb Valley. Hard to believe this is all that is left of what was once the largest southern california gold rush town. Belleville was nearly 25,000 people and had more than it’s fair share of prostitutes, miners, and desperados. The town was named for Belle, the first baby born in [...]
6/26/09
This was written inside one of the closet doors, I felt guilty of killing those memories for whomever the girls were, so before pulling the door off and putting it in the dumpster, I figured I would save those memories from dying, just a little bit.
As a guy who is pretty used to freebooting and [...]
It’s a strange place that I grew up in. The strangest thing is that it hasn’t changed at all since I last lived here 22 years ago. The same businesses, the same houses needing paintjobs, the same old time miner 49er beards on different quirky Big Bear types.
If anything, the place seems smaller but that’s [...]
6/7/09
And now I get to work for the next few months. I’m in my childhood hometown of Big Bear Lake, California.
You can check it out at BigBear.com. I’m working with my Dad to remodel a couple of apartments and in the process he is teaching me the fine details of the constructions trades. It’s [...]
6/1/09
Here it is on June 1st and I am no longer in the red with my bank accounts. Everything is above zero thanks to your generous donations and the constant ringing in my ears from faulty hearing protection in the United States Marine Corps. Each month I get about $100 from the Marines for that [...]
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