This tree is down by the river.
[daily log: walking, 5km; retailing, 9hr]
Category: My Photos
Caveat: Tree #1907 “From the north side”
This tree (the one photobombing from the top) was on the north side of the bay.
I’ve never managed this view before. There’s a wide spot in the road, where you can stop, and a little trail down to the rocky beach, and you can look across the water at the City of Rockpit, which is my home. Currently the City hosts 4 residents – double its population only a few years ago (which is to say, our neighbors Brandt and Kim moved in next door, about a year ago).
Humorous quote found online:
To all the people that always said I’d never amount to anything because of my procrastination: / Just you wait.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 9hr]
Caveat: Tree #1906 “Tax Day”
This tree failed to pay any taxes whatsoever.
Taxes stress me out so much. And I have to deal with taxes not just for myself, and the excitement of now being “self employed” and all the bonus paperwork that comes with that, but also, I have to make sure Arthur’s taxes are filed and in order. I’m quite annoyed with a thing called “DocuSign” – it’s a service used by accountants, financial institutions, etc, to do “online signing” of documents (e.g. tax returns). DocuSign asks verification questions to verify your identity. These are based on things like previously lived-at addresses, previously owned cars, etc. Well think about how this works for someone with memory issues (e.g. Arthur). It’s an accessibility nightmare! So for DocuSign, identity resides with memory, and loss of memory is a loss of identity. I’m not sure this is how it works from a legal standpoint, and it’s certainly not how we want things to work from an ethical standpoint, I don’t think.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 9hr]
Caveat: Tree #1905 “Explosion”
This tree witnessed a thermonuclear explosion.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km;]
Caveat: Tree #1904 “출근길”
This tree anticipated spring, but six years ago, in April, 2018, along my walk to work in Goyang, South Korea.
[daily log: walking, 1km;]
Caveat: Tree #1903 “Fresh salmonberry leaves”
This tree noticed fresh green leaves appearing on some salmonberry shrubs.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km;]
Caveat: Tree #1902 “White-topped mountain”
This tree was in the foreground – a white-topped mountain with cloud is rather hard to see clearly, in the background.
[daily log: walking, 3km;]
Caveat: Tree #1901 “Impending rain”
This tree was down by a river.
[daily log: walking, 3.5km; retailing, 9hr]
Caveat: Tree #1900 “A fashionable address”
This tree has a fashionable address on C Street in suburban Klawock, Alaska.
I took the car to the mechanic today, while Jan watched the store. That went okay – the car needed a seal replaced on the transfer case, and I wanted to check the front wheel bearings and ball joints and such (weird noises sometimes on cornering, and it’s been a problem before). Plus oil change, and switch out winter to summer rims.
But overall it was a horrible day, with the trip to the mechanic being the only pleasant part. The store is stressing me out – ambushed by invoices, bookkeeping problems and overwhelmed by what feels like an impossible “more money out than in” scenario. I’m experiencing “buyer’s remorse” over this project to run the store.
[daily log: walking, 6km; retailing, 7hr]
Caveat: Tree #1899 “The distance”
This tree was off in the distance, just outside of town as I drove home.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 9hr]
Caveat: Tree #1898 “Broke”
This tree broke.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km;]
Caveat: Tree #1897 “Jumping the gun”
This tree was near where I used to live in Ilsan, South Korea. I took this picture in October, 2017. It had a tendency to jump the gun on Autumn, always ahead of all the other sidewalk trees.
I experienced a motivational deficit, today.
[daily log: walking, 1km;]
Caveat: Tree #1896 “Leftover snow”
This tree noticed some leftover snow.
[daily log: walking, 3km; retailing, 1hr]
Caveat: Tree #1895 “Fading away”
This tree saw the snow fade away.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 9hr]
Caveat: Tree #1894 “The cowering Jeep”
This tree was towering over my cowering, ill-used Jeep.
Elmer comes in the store. We are talking about who is native, who is not, among locals on the island, here. You can’t always tell who is “native” – there’s been a lot of mixing over the generations, so it mostly has to do with enrollment in a tribal group, appearance doesn’t always tell you a lot about a person’s status as a native. Anyway, somewhat out of the blue, Elmer says, “You know, Richard Nixon was Tlingit.” I said, “Oh really, how’s that?” Elmer, not missing a beat, says, holds his two hands up in the “double peace sign” and says, “I am NOT a crook.” This, somehow, proves that Nixon was a Tlingit.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 9hr]
Caveat: Tree #1893 “A belated April Fools”
This tree wished me a belated April Fools day as I drove home from work on the famous PSN expressway (dirt road).
Yikes. This morning, when I’d arrived at work, Arthur called me. This is quite rare, that he will call me at work. The reason he called me: he couldn’t figure out how to turn on the TV. This felt a bit alarming. I guess I should feel relief that I’ve made it super easy for him to call me at the store, programming it into the house phone on a speed dial setting.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 9hr]
Caveat: Tree #1892 “Giant city”
This tree was behind a dumpster proudly owned by the CITY OF CRAIG. It’s a giant city, population, 1000.
[daily log: walking, 5km; retailing, 9hr]
Caveat: Tree #1891 “Acceptance”
This tree will accept Spring’s challenges.
Arthur said something quite lucid this evening, after we ended our weekly skype conversation with his brother Alan (my other uncle). Arthur said, “I think my memory is operating at about 2%.” That seems about right to me, I hate to say.
[daily log: walking, 2.5km;]
Caveat: Tree #1890 “Off beyond”
This tree off beyond the treehouse’s balcony.
A joke: “You’ll never know what kind of impact you’ll have on this earth until you fall down.”
[daily log: walking, 2km;]
Caveat: Tree #1889 “소방서 뒤에”
This tree was a scraggly, bare tree planted in the sidewalk behind the fire station across the street from my apartment in Ilsan, South Korea. I was noting that some snow had fallen in December, 2013.
Still haven’t been feeling super healthy. So I ended up being quite lazy today – didn’t accomplish much at all.
Saw this online. It’s interesting to think about.
Grab a couple of dice. Roll them. If you get below 5, those are rookie numbers. Shout at the dice, let them know they’re underperforming. If you get above 9, that’s what we want to see! They’re good dice, and you should acknowledge that. Repeat that and keep a record. You’ll notice that negative feedback often results in better performance on the next roll. Positive feedback, conversely, can make them get lazy. When you truly understand why this method of dice management works, you are ready to give feedback to people.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km;]
Caveat: Tree #1888 “Horizon with distant mountain”
This tree formed part of the horizon.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 9hr]
Caveat: Tree #1887 “Bent”
This tree was bent.
I had a pretty terrible day. Feeling “under the weather” and suffering a couple of financial “gotchas” at the store. Feeling inadequate the tasks I’ve taken on for myself.
[daily log: walking, 5.5km; retailing, 9hr]
Caveat: Tree #1886 “Sparse clouds”
This tree was below some sparse clouds.
A silly joke: My wife screamed “you haven’t listened to a single word I’ve said, have you?!” I was taken aback….what a weird way to start a conversation.
[daily log: walking, 4.5km; retailing, 9hr]
Caveat: Tree #1885 “Behold, a dark raincloud”
This tree beheld a dark raincloud.
Funny joke seen online: “My neighbor couldn’t afford his water bill, so I got him a ‘Get Well Soon’ card.”
[daily log: walking, 5km; retailing, 9hr]
Caveat: Tree #1884 “Sea view”
This tree had a view of the sea.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km;]
Caveat: Tree #1883 “The rant that wasn’t”
This tree anticipated more photons, soon.
I was planning to write a long rant about road maintenance and technocracy… but I’m too tired and can’t be bothered. Imagine that a rant was written.
[daily log: walking, 3.5km; retailing, 4hr]
Caveat: Tree #1882 “태극기”
This tree is under a giant Korean flag. I took this picture in January, 2009, walking home from work on a Saturday afternoon.
It’s good to not get too monotonous with the local tree-pics.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km;]
Caveat: Tree #1881 “Pre-house”
This tree noted the lack of progress on the little house thingy (I call it the “pre-house”) on Lot 73. I’m not bothered by this – the neighbor who’s doing this project for me has had other jobs that are much higher priority, involving improvements to his own lot. The pre-house will wait.
The reason I call it the pre-house is because the future actual house will be attached to it – at which point, this structure becomes a kind of previously-existing small appendage to the future house.
[daily log: walking, 3.5km; retailing, 9hr]
Caveat: Tree #1880 “Sunshine”
This tree saw unseasonal morning sunshine on the first day of Spring. I still expect we’ll see a bit more snow at some point, but who knows – the weather here isn’t very predictable in that respect.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 9hr]
Caveat: Tree #1879 “A departing sun”
This tree was briefly lit by a departing sun.
[daily log: walking, 5km; retailing, 9hr]
Caveat: Tree #1878 “Fear and trembling”
This tree saw Richard’s excavator in the neighborhood. I suppose excavators make trees tremble with fear.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 9hr]
Caveat: Tree #1877 “Death by the window”
This tree is a young bay laurel tree I had in a bucket in the house. It did really well for about a year then just mysteriously seems to have died (or having grown quite unhealthy, began approaching death asymptotically) a few weeks ago. I am very sad.
[daily log: walking, 1km;]
Caveat: Tree #1876 “Resting”
This tree was in some snow a a few weeks ago, at the 8-mile bridge. I am showing this picture because I didn’t take a fresh tree picture today.
Art took a walk down the road today, and apparently (I wasn’t there) sat down (or lay down?) to “rest” and someone thought he was a body in the road and “rescued” him and brought him home. Art claims nothing went wrong he was just resting. I’m not so sure.
[daily log: walking, 4.5km;]