Scrabble

Words with Friends provides bonding opportunites with my brother and I. Words with Friends is scrabble game and it's awesome. If you want to play me, my name is kirkkrunk. Anyways, I had a conversation today with my brother via g chat. It went as follows:

me: i see you

Andrew: ...
busy
play scrabble
you can not beat me

me: you are a homo

Andrew: under any circumstance

me: of course i can
i already did

Andrew: never again
MARK
MY
WORDS
YOUNG
PADAWAN

me: im putting this on facebook

Andrew: ha ha

me: the entire conversation

Andrew: please do

me: and then when i win i will refer back to this

Andrew: although you called me a homo.
some people will be offended

me: i will put it on my blog
and i will say that it contains offensive material

Andrew: this part too?
If I don't see the entire convo, including this, I will bruise your face
now, I really must be off
toddaloo
toodaloo

me: this is embarassing
come down for anti-matter

Andrew: I want to

me: let me know.

Andrew: How about Friday or Saturday?

me: im going to beirut tomorrow night

Andrew: may we join you?

me: i think im busy this weekend, climbing and such
yes

Andrew: maybe we should meet up over here?
you can park your car

me: my buddy is not going to the concert

Andrew: we can walk and take trax

me: oh...yea for sure
k talk to you later
Andrew: ok

Stay tuned for score updates and notable words...

Pheifferhorn

Up Little Cottonwood Canyon

Hawaii

Lava

Lava erupts and forms rocks.

Rocks erode into gravel, sand, and mud.

Gravel, sand and mud turn into rocks.

Rocks melt and erupt as lava.

Field Camp Week 6

Due to technical difficulties*, no pictures will be posted of the final week of field camp. It's a shame because the desert has a lot to offer us geologists. We had to make a geologic map of a fairly extensive region this past week. I was able to enhance my tans lines, my hiking skills, my loner skills (we mapped alone), my pb & j making skills, my homeless skills, my compass skills, my rattlesnake awareness skills, my first aid skills, my sunscreen appliance skills, my wilderness survival skills, my thinking skills, and some geology skills. Good times were had.

*My camera broke thanks to an over-anxious, clumsy, silly geologist as I was taking a picture of a rattlesnake.

Field Camp Week 5

The Beaver Dam Mountains: Good for Nothing is Good for Me

Field Camp Week 4

Diamond Fork Canyon: A great place to herd cattle

By Kirk Schleiffarth

Field Camp Week 3

This week we went to Capitol Reef National Park located in south central Utah. The park is pretty awesome. Our group stayed in the park field station which is run completely on solar power. The facility was really nice, simple, and clean. We were instructed to limit our use of energy, water and trash. It was refreshing to live so simply and comfortably in an essentially impact-free facility. I feel motivated to live more simply and get over the American or generational mindset that I can't make a difference.

The geology of the park was a lot of fun to study. My group of 3 was assigned a certain formation in the Triassic period and we spent 3 days finding exposed beds, analyzing, and measuring the entire unit, which represented over 100 million years of deposition. Based on the composition of the rock and sedimentary features we could interpret the environment and climate of the past.....Anyways, I think it's sweet.

Field Camp Week 2

We went to Yellowstone this week.

It was practically vacation.

Field Camp Week 1

Field Camp is what I like to call geology camp. We spend each week of 6 in various areas around the intermountain west studying different geologic subjects. This past week we studied the ground water system surrounding Pilot Valley out near the Utah/Nevada border. We learned how to analyze groundwater systems, drill our own wells, use geophysical techniques to decipher the water table depth, etc. Next week we will be focusing on geothermal systems in Yellowstone.