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When I first saw this on the slideshow of my photo archives, my immediate thought was, "I miss home.".

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I just ate this. It was really good.

So my sister, pictured here (the human), who is also my roommate, needed an MRI for her knee.

What they do in the Yukon when you need an MRI, since they don't have any MRI machines in the territory, is they book you an appointment at a hospital Outside for an MRI there. Then, they book you a plane ticket to get to and from where you're going. And they ask you, when would you like to leave, and when would you like to come back? Because it doesn't really matter to them when you go, as long as you make the appointment, so lots of people who need to travel Outside for a medical appointment make a little vacation of it.

Anyhow, Meagan, who, incidentally, does not like flying so they booked her a Greyhound ticket instead, went to Edmonton for her MRI last week. On the way, she picked up a postcard and mailed it to us. And she also wrote a postcard to her cat, Mini Kitty, pictured above (the cat). This is because she is a crazy cat lady.

So today on my lunch break I came home and found the card to Mini. And what did I do with it? I, of course, sat down on the floor and read the postcard to the cat. This is because I am a crazy cat lady.

I'm pretty sure that if Ashley had been the one to pick up the card, that she would have done the same thing that I did. This is because she is a crazy cat lady.

I have so much to talk about and so little to say.

It's fall now. Has been for about a month. It frosts every evening and now there's a chill in the air during the day, too. The light is turning golden, and so are the trees.

I don't really have anything else right now, so here are some houses:

I went to Haines for the Southeast Alaska State Fair this weekend. It was a lovely, mostly relaxing weekend, full of delicious food and wonderful damp. I also met a very nice dog.

Fox, originally uploaded by qousqous.

So last weekend I went to Dawson and saw a big music festival, which were awesome and pretty ok, respectively. Dawson City is a ridiculously beautiful town full of old buildings that was the centre of the gold rush in late 1890s. In 1898 more people lived in Dawson than live in the entire Yukon now. It was quite charming.

The music festival was mostly underwhelming, more or less as I had anticipated, but tUnE-YarDs and The Burning Hell were pretty great.

What was not great was that what with sunset being at 0030 and it never getting dark at all, and being able to clearly hear the loud music and general drunken rowdiness that overtook the town even from our campsite across the river, I was unable to sleep until 4am on Saturday night. Instead, I took the ferry from the campground back into town, went wandering, ran into my friend Matt, and drank beer with him on Robert Service's front porch in the unending light. Unfortunately, he had a lingering cold that I seem to have picked up, or perhaps in my exhaustion I caught something else somewhere, but I've been sick off work with a ridiculous sore throat since Tuesday. Oops!

On the way out of Dawson we took a drive down the Dredge Road along Bonanza Creek to see the enormous old gold dredge they used to mine the creek for gold. Along the way a fox ran into the road, so we slowed down, and the fox ran right up to the car. We stopped and took pictures of the cute little guy, who I think expected us to feed him. I exploited his innocence to obtain the photo above, and we drove off without even a thank you.

A couple weeks ago I went camping without a flashlight for the first time in my life. Pictures of that are coming soon.

In the meantime, you will have to settle for this picture of pancakes that I found on Flickr.

Guess where this is.

This is the Finance Ministry, on the Onafhankelijkheidsplein (Independence Square) in Paramaribo, Suriname. The statue is of Johan Adolf Pengel, who was Prime Minister 1963-1969.

Oh yeah, so, I went to Vancouver and got the car


(pictured here not in Vancouver but in Alaska, but hey, it still gets the idea across)

and visited my ( in-laws ) ( and some friends ) ( and some former co-workers ) and ate a LOT of ( Indian food ) and then drove North via the Coquihalla, Cariboo, Yellowhead, Cassiar, and Alaska highways home, along with Rowan



who was an excellent travel companion. We saw some pretty places











and drove on some isolated and sometimes icy roads





and did some ( shopping ) and some ( jumping ) and saw some ( signs ) and even saw ( caribou ) and arrived safely in Whitehorse and it was a pretty great trip. Now you know. And you can even see lots more pictures on my flickr, if you want to.

We also recently went to a big bonfire and played board games with our friends and witnessed colossal melting (complete with enormous puddles) and put bandannas on our cats and went to Alaska and saw some eagles and rode some boats and couldn't buy any of the diamonds we didn't want to buy, but you'll have to hear more about that later.

I fly to Vancouver Sunday morning. In a few hours!

Then on Wednesday I drive back to Whitehorse. I'm trying to decide between the red route and the blue route:



Meanwhile, I should attempt to sleep.

March this year where I live has 43140 minutes.

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VENE!

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ISOLADO!

ES MI! VIDI!

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CINDRLA ES ME

VENE AL TERRA

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SON ISOLADO

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POEMAS CREPUSCLRS


SOMNOS DE LIBERTAD

AMOR SIN TERROR

DII SIN FUROR

NOTTI DI AMITAD


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DOMINE O SCLAVA
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FEMM O FILIA MA SEMPRE HA DESIDER LA MEDIA ENTRE

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FEMM
FEMM – AMOR POR TU

So I was poking through my photo library and found some old photos and thought, "Hey, film!", because that's what they were. Here are some of the better ones:









( +8 more photos of Portland )

It has been unseasonably warm recently, nearly reaching zero a couple days ago. We also got an unusually large amount of snow last week, setting a January record of 12 cm of snow in one day. Whitehorse is cold but very dry, so that amount of snow is actually fairly rare here. But the warm weather and fresh, clean snow made for a nice day walking this weekend.

Weekend! I worked the day after I got back from down south, and continued for ten days in a row. My co-worker who was supposed to return to work on Monday got stuck in India for several days and didn't get back until Thursday. Even though I wasn't working particularly long days (5-7 hours), working every day in a row gets rather tiring. But now that the Christmas rush is over and Amita is back, I am down to part time and looking for another job. Ergh.

Anyhow, some more pictures of houses for you:



( and more houses )( and some other things )

was great





( even though something was really weird with the lighting )

&c.