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The light was very nice

WITH MORE MUNKYS!

SOME MUNKYS LIKE THE CITY

SOME MUNKYS LIKE THE DESERT

SOME MUNKYS LIKE THE COLD

IT'S MUNKY WEEK AGAIN

It's pretty here.

I wonder does some types of water work as a possible buffer to gravitational properties? It is a transparent liquid that holds less magnetic properties than say the ground. Which holds metallic gravitational purposes from within the minerals. Water does contain iron and other minserals, but at what weight ratio to other properties in it. Especially minerals which defy gravity (bouancy in salt water). Creating the mass and weight that water does, and if in fact acts as a buffer towards magnetic properties such as salt water does. It would make sense why we have a polar reversal once enough gravity retarding water (salt water) is found on the surface of the planet. Causing a capsizing effect. (polar reversal) If the core is liquid as well as a surface becomes a liquid with a greater weight ratio than the gravitational pull. The gravitational pull of salt water is pulling upward and obviously under certain conditions is greater than our gravitational pull from the core.

  

We went to Skagway on Sunday.



It was fun!



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In the Yukon, people are disturbingly friendly. People on the street will TALK TO YOU and will not avoid eye contact. Strangers will be really off-puttingly not closed down and on guard at all times. Strangers will treat you as if you are something other than an annoyance to be dismissed. It's hard to know how to deal with.

In the Yukon, things happen on Yukon time. If you apply for a job, you will not hear back for at least a couple WEEKS after the closing date. (If a company tried that in Vancouver, all the people who sent in resumes would already have jobs elsewhere.) If you go on Trader Time on Thursday, which is like Craigslist on the radio, and ask for a bed, and someone calls you right away, don't expect to have that bed before Sunday.

In the Yukon, craigslist has only been around a couple months and nobody uses it. If you want to buy something, you have to call into Trader Time, a radio show where people buy and sell things, or look at CLASSIFIED ADS in the NEWSPAPER. You then will contact people using the TELEPHONE.

People here use the TELEPHONE to make PHONE CALLS all the time! In Vancouver I hardly ever made phone calls with my phone.

In the Yukon, car registration and car insurance are not handled by the same government agency. Car insurance, in fact, is not handled by the government at all! You have to find your own PRIVATE CAR INSURANCE agent and sign up for insurance before you go register your car.

In the Yukon, the government website that handles car registration will tell you to use the YELLOW PAGES if you need to find an insurance agent.

In the Yukon, landords can:

• Require up to a FULL MONTH'S RENT as security deposit
• On a month-to-month tenancy, end the tenancy with 30 days notice for ANY REASON
• Raise the rent by ANY AMOUNT at ANY TIME after the first year of a tenancy, with 3 months' notice

6(1) Subject to the express terms of any
lease, or of any valid and subsisting covenant,
agreement, or stipulation affecting the tenancy,

• every tenant for years and every tenant
  for life is liable to their landlord and to every
  other person for the time being having a
  reversionary interest in the leased premises
  for voluntary waste and for permissive waste
  in respect of the premises to the extent by
  which the interest of the landlord and other
  persons, if any, having a reversionary interest
  in the premises is detrimentally affected
  thereby; and
• every tenant at will is liable to their
  landlord and every other person having a
  reversionary interest in the leased premises
  for voluntary waste in respect of the premises
  to the extent by which the interest of the
  landlord and other persons, if any, having a
  reversionary interest in the premises is
  detrimentally affected thereby.

We hiked up Grey Mountain a couple nights ago.

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Grey Mountain is a big, um... grey, mountain overlooking the Riverdale neighbourhood of Whitehorse. We drove part way up and hiked the last 45 minutes or so up to the top. You can drive all the way, but the road is pretty bad and we wanted a hike. On top we had a picnic of potato salad with local potatoes, cabbage salad with local cabbage, peas from the farmers' market, and some of the whole wheat sourdough Ashley had baked the day before.

I went to a wedding a few weeks ago. It was awesome!



I took a lot more pictures, and will be posting them, uh, later.

We arrived in Whitehorse.

This is our house:



Whitehorse is a cute town. And, it is a town! There are several coffee shops! There are streets lined with businesses! And we live downtown, so I can walk to much of it from my house.

We are slowly settling in. Need some furniture. We do have the kitchen mostly unpacked, but nowhere to put our clothes. The house is huge, with three bedrooms, a big kitchen, and a big living room. We are sharing the house with my sister and her boy. The third bedroom will be a shared office.

Last night I cooked our first meal in the kitchen of red lentil dal, cauliflower and potatoes, cabbage salad that Laird made, and brown rice. It was delicious, and I am looking forward to leftovers.

Right now we are sitting in Baked, a cafe & bakery on Main Street. Ashley is working, and I am applying for jobs. I don't like applying for jobs, but I would like to have one.

We have a LANDLINE phone (weird!), and today we bought an oversaturated seafoam telephone we have mounted on the wall of the kitchen for $7 from Wal-Mart. We signed up for cable internet but it won't be installed until the 15th. I am afraid it will be slow. I hear it's slowest around 5pm when everyone gets home, but it's really fast in the mornings.

I put some pictures on the internet here.

Departure: late August 2009
Return: September 2010 or later

That's right. We're moving to Whitehorse¹. It's a nice city². It is pretty far.³ The climate isn't that bad.⁴. And the sun rises EVERY SINGLE DAY OF THE YEAR!⁵

The plan:
Saturday August 1st: acquire vehicle
Saturday August 1st: go to Portland
Tuesday August 4th: return home
Wednesday August 5th-Monday August 24th: see/do/eat everything we will miss or always wanted to see/do/eat about/in Vancouver, such as the Museum of Anthropology, a day at Wreck, fondue dinner at Au Petit Chavignol, Indian buffet, usw. usw.
Wednesday August 19th: complete last day of work at spud
Sunday August 23rd: Foist Eleanor off on some kitty-loving local who wants to hang out with him for a couple weeks
Monday August 24th: depart
Tuesday August 25th-Friday August 28th: have fun in BC
Saturday August 29th: Arrive at new home
Sunday September 6th?: Meet Meagan at the airport? with? our lovely kitty? Or otherwise arrange Eleanor transport
February 12th-28th, 2010: Definitely NOT be in Vancouver

Details subject to change without prior notification.

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1. Yukon Territory.
2. 20,000 people. Jeremy says that's not a city, it's a neighbourhood. But Whitehorse has MULTIPLE NEIGHBOURHOODS⁶, and is therefore a city.
3. 2593 km or 30 hours overland. Mexico is closer to Vancouver than Whitehorse.
4. Whitehorse has one of the most comfortable climates in Canada. While it is very cold⁷ in the winter, it is not particularly snowy, and has a balmy⁸ summer.
5. Whitehorse is subarctic, i.e. below the Arctic Circle, which means that the sun rises every day of the year, and sets every day of the year. In the dead of winter, the sun is up for about five and a half hours a day, while at midsummer the sun is up for 19 hours and 10 minutes. Additionally, midsummer features 14 days of nonstop baseball.⁹ (detailed data here)
6. See? Multiple neighbourhoods! Several!
7. The average high in January is -13.3° C, which is roughly similar to what I experienced in Minnesota.
8. During much of the summer, it's been hotter in Whitehorse than Vancouver.
9. That is to say, civil twilight begins at 2:07 AM on June 14th and doesn't end until 1:53 AM on June 28th. Civil Twilight is the time when the sun is between 0° and 6° below the horizon and it is still basically daylight—the sun may have gone down, but there is still enough light to play baseball. If you can't play baseball any more, you know it's then nautical twilight, when the sun is between 6° and 12° below the horizon. You can still detect light in the sky with the naked eye, and you can distinguish the horizon, but stars begin to appear and the light is not useful for outdoor activity. Nautical twilight begins at 2:22 AM on May 8th and does not end until 1:39 AM on August 4th, which means there is some light in the sky for nearly three months. Zow.

Purportedly "bat-eared foxes", these creatures are in fact monkey-cats.