This looks so alien to my Redding eyes. Like so many daredevils. Here’s a brief video I felt compelled to watch multiple times.
Turns out this YouTuber has posted similar videos made in snow and rain too, though presumably not in 100 degree sun. Still, I just watched it again. And I keep looking for fat people, or anyone on a motorized wheelchair. Where are all the people on motorized wheelchairs in this Dutch town? It’s so unfamiliar looking.
Bicyclists in Redding had best wear helmets. Armor is appropriate, actually. Recent local stories like this, and this one from one of my favorite columnists in our local newspaper give one pause. Justifiably. There’s a reason why most of the bicycles you see in Redding are attached to the back of cars and trucks going somewhere else.
Isn’t Shell Oil a Dutch company? What’s up with that? Today it was announced that we are tapping into our Strategic Oil Reserve to temporarily bring gas prices down a few pennies. Wouldn’t want anyone to start seriously looking for alternate forms of transportation, now would we?
A bittersweet final countdown
This final Shuttle mission is set to launch July 8. Mission countdown rehearsal and related training is underway. You can follow along at your NASA website. The end of an era approaches.
Oil wars get ramped up, while our spacefleet gets retired. That’s Really Redding.
Thanks, unknown I-5 driver
I was bringing home a used utility trailer I just bought in Cottonwood. I had barely gotten onto I-5 when a driver in the left lane slowed inexplicably. The passenger window rolled down, and I could barely make out a shouted “flat tire!” Oh.
Yeah, no spare. No fun. At least I would have know what to do if I had got a flat tire, unlike some people who just have no car sense whatsoever. Not that that is a bad thing, but if you’re going to drive a car then having a bit of car knowledge would surely help with things. Of course, there are times when a little bit of car knowledge doesn’t help and you know that you need to go get your car repaired at a garage (just like this arvada car repair place). But that’s just by the by. In this instance I know how to sort out a tire, it just was a pain because I didn’t have a spare. But this tire was a bit worse then I could have imagined though.
Not just flat on the bottom as they say. A few more rotations, and things might have gotten serious on a hot Summer day. My gratitude goes out to the driver of the white car, wherever you are. Paid forward. He certainly saved me that day so I’m very grateful. He probably didn’t even realise how bad it was, just that I had a bit of a flat. Any other sort of flat and I might have been able to pump it up, but this flat was definitely the end of the line. Oh well, no harm was done, except maybe a wasted afternoon.
Dad Life
Love this video. With Father’s Day coming soon, I thought I’d post it in the unlikely case you haven’t already seen it. What the heck, watch it again. It’s the Dad life.
Dedicated especially to a few dads here in town. Silas, Bruce, and David, who may feel I’ve been picking on them lately (I promise to stop now). Enjoy fatherhood fellas. It goes by much faster than you think.
Ranger led Kayak tours of Whiskeytown Lake begin June 18
Ranger-led programs begin June 18, 2011 and are offered through Labor Day weekend.
Some programs, such as the Kayak Tours may be offered beyond Labor Day, weather permitting. You can call the visitor center at (530) 246-1225, or call Ranger Clinton Kane at (530) 242-3451 for the latest information on park programs.
Kids need to be 6 and up. Offered at 9:30 am and 6:00 pm daily, with an additional 12:30 tour on Saturdays and Sundays. (2.5 hour program) More at the Whiskeytown website. Waterlife, it’s Really Redding.
Relax -new old music
Relax2011 by SkipMurphy
Wild Iris
2001: a time odyssey
The Redding sun shone brightly through glass block walls at the Mercy Medical pediatric level in May of 1983, on the morning my first daughter Erin was born. I recall musing the mental math and discovering she would graduate from High School in 2001, a year that had special meaning back then. The turn of the century was the setting of the futuristic and obtuse Kubrick film 2001: a space odyssey. The film set the tone and expectations for what seemed a distant but believable future. I speculated maybe Erin would become a flight attendant on a Pan-Am space vessel, or a resident of a colony on the moon. In 1983, anything seemed possible for 2001.
But here we are in May of 2011, and in a few weeks, we won’t even have so much as a Space Shuttle. Erin grew up, and graduated Class of 2001, but I don’t think I’ll be visiting her at her apartment on the moon base anytime soon. On the other hand, and in my hand, I hold a small computer more powerful than HAL. Such is the nature of long term predictions of the future.
Short term, I can predict that tonight, she and her CV classmates will be attending a 10 year class reunion at a Casino in Redding (Legal gambling in Redding? I’d not have predicted that in 1983.). Handheld video recorders were pretty new to us all in 2001, and so her video yearbook is a unique artifact. She edited it for YouTube, and posted it yesterday.
2001: A Reverse Time Odyssey. Not quite what we expected…
Feeding trolls as a business model
The Redding Warlocks
The Redding Warlocks seem to be a psychedelic style jam band playing out around here. Below, “Ale House Dub” is an oddly hypnotic video with an appropriate live soundtrack that was apparently recorded at Redding’s Ale House.
I like it. There’s more about this original local band at their Redding Warlocks Reverbnation page. But not much more. Looks like you’ll need to see them live. Check out the video they have titled “Six Crap Shootin’ Pall Bearers.” A disjointed night road trip done Redding style. Status: Symbiotic Cacophony Orchestra? Play on, Redding Warlocks.
