Saturday, November 21, 2009 - Chambersburg PA
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My study, November 21, 2009
I woke up this morning gung-ho ready to put some miles on... only to run out of steam a hundred miles down the road when I stopped at a rest area for a break. What the..? That break lasted for hours and I only made it down I-81 as far as Chambersburg PA. Winter's weather is not pushing me - November quite mild here in the east this year - so what's the hurry (says one who couldn't wait to get on the road)?
Adding a studio workshop to this fulltiming rig
A goal this summer was to add a studio workshop to this fulltiming setup. I've been chewing this bone a long time and I finally cracked it. Tools are heavy and LD is built on a relatively light duty chassis leaving me few options. A box trailer with a shop built in seemed like a reasonable approach but dealing with a trailer all the time would be a drag. It's certainly doable but I'd rather not be bothered.
There's gotta be a way.
And there is. Given that only so much weight can be carried in this rig it comes down to priorities. Toss a pound of whatever - add a pound of hammers. Toss what is not important to me - add what is. Aha! It's so simple.
So I did just that.
Night camp
Wal-Mart Supercenter in Chambersburg PA
Wal-Mart Supercenter Store #1850, 1730 Lincon Way E, Chambersburg, PA 17201 - (717) 264-2300
- Good level parking
- Verizon cell phone service- Very good signal
- Verizon EVDO Broadband service - Very good signal
- Locate this Walmart on my Night Camps map
- Find other Wal-Marts in the area
- Check the weather here
Five Trillion Spiders
Spiders begin their hunting with a few handicaps. They're often smaller and weaker than their prey, and they have no wings to give chase in the air. Some species extend their legs by hydraulic pressure, using the same liquid that carries oxygen from their lungs, so they have a hard time running and breathing at the same time. Even their poison may be no match for their victim's: a crab spider's bite is to a honeybee's sting as "an air-gun compared with an elephant rifle," John Crompton wrote. Yet spiders kill at an astonishing pace. One Dutch researcher estimates that there are some five trillion spiders in the Netherlands alone, each of which consumes about a tenth of a gram of meat a day. Were their victims people instead of insects, they would need only three days to eat all sixteen and a half million Dutchmen.
From Spider Woman by Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker magazine, March 5, 2007, page 69