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When I'm super busy and not procrastinating stuff, I tend to forget to eat until I'm really hungry. The combination of constant activity and not munching all the time makes me lose weight. Moral of the story? That plan of "never stop doing stuff" sounds like a good one. Also, keep a Clif bar in your pocket in case you miss a meal and there's no food around :).

What news, you ask? Well, since 10pm last night, I've slept for 12 hours, woke up thinking about a pretty girl I met at a festival last weekend, folded up my friends' guest-bed and put away the bedding, updated my facebook page (which I rarely do) and my CouchSurfing profile, which needs some more attention soon. I added a card to my PayPal account so I could buy Skype credit so I could call my mom so she could get Molly and Ransom's numbers from my phone, which I forgot at home (D'oh!) on this trip up to the Bay area, and contacted friends who'll be going to Maker Faire about where I'll be and who I'll be with (so they can call phoneless me). And it's not even noon yet!!! Time to go install a car stereo, so we can have an auxiliary input on the drive from Santa Barbara up to the Bay area.

Oh, and I'm now listening to my new favorite band, Rubble Bucket. Some of their music is freely listenable here: http://www.rubblebucket.com .

I hope I do a full post on Joshua Tree music festival and last weekend. In case I never get around to it - AMAZING. Met tons of really, really wonderful people, heard some pretty great music, camped in the desert, rode my dirt-bike with ammo cans ghetto-rigged to the sides around on 4x4 roads in Joshua Tree national park, stayed with some desert-dwelling local friends in Morongo Valley, and, after dumping the bike over 6 or 8 times, learned some about riding a motorcycle offroad.

Hugs for all,
~Tinker/George


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