V-Neck Cave

So yesterday my buddy Billie (fellow geologist) and I traveled up to a cave. The cave is about thirty minutes up Little Rock Canyon, the canyon south of Slate Canyon. It's not a popular canyon and the cave is only a small v-shaped crack, barely big enough to slide through. I therefore name the canyon, V-Neck Cave. When I see a male wearing a v-neck t-shirt, I feel a little bit uncomfortable, especially the deep ones. This cave made me feel uncomfortable, because it was deep, dark and narrow. We went a good 100 meters deep and it required all sorts of crawling, maneuvering, and climbing and a head lamp.

Who is the White Bible?

A few matters of business:

• My blog will now be focusing on my travels, whether they be to a foreign land or to my imagination.
• The White Bible is me. This was my "rapper" name in high school. I put quotations on rapper because I do not rap with style, but I rap nonetheless. The name was given to me by my friends, because I was white and religious.

This is why I am a geologist

Geologic Map of Middle Earth
Just in case you wanted to know.....

1. Frodo cast the ring into a rift zone basaltic volcano.
2. Gandalf fell to his apparent death within an ancient subduction zone granitic batholith.
3. The Shire is located on an ancient pelitic metamorphic continental craton.

Otter

Yesterday I went on a field trip. Yes, a field trip. I saw an otter amongst the rocks. I love otters. I also love rocks.

Poet Schleiffarth

The Giants Lair

The ever-looming presence of a giant

Looking down from above

I feel the penetrating gaze

The view I only dream of

As I approach the mysterious wonder

Something blocks my view

The fortress is hidden deep within

Anxiety was due

The castle walls are steep and green

Rising to the clouds

Rivers flow from the heights

The pristine source it shrouds

Ascending slowly in the mist

I was almost there

The sun broke through, the view was true

In the giants lair

2010

It is 2010. If this is the future, where are the flying cars? and hover boots? I thought the future was supposed to be better. The performance of Lady Gaga and Green Day on the NBC New Years Eve show confirmed that the future is very much worse. At least I don't have a neighbor named Biff.

So the other day I wrote a check for tithing. If you are unfamiliar with tithing, it is a choice of mormon church members to pay 10% of our income to help sustain and help people of the church. So I was writing this check and I, for some unknown reason, wrote an extra zero. The result was a withdrawal of money I didn't have. I didn't notice for a few days and I don't have overdraft protection, thus the amount was even more expensive. There went the small amount of savings I had and any cool presents I was planning on buying for my family. So basically I got screwed over for being faithful. FML.

2009.

2009 Timeline

February - Park City

May - Atlanta

June - Florida

July - Glacier National Park

Mt. Timpanogas

Mt. Nebo

August - India

October - Santaquin

November - Arches National Park

Thanks.

In light of thanksgiving.....

If I were a living turkey, I would be a Jain, I would hope humans convert, and I would be thankful to be alive.

DISTRICT 9

Last night I saw District 9 at the dollar theater. The movie was interesting and quite entertaining. I dropped off a few friends afterwards, including my friend Andre Abamonte. As we drove towards his house, we unleashed a toy laser gun, which lights up and has laser sound effects as well. Don't ask me why that was in my car. With a combination of craze, adrenaline and overtiredness, we agreed with enthusiasm to "shoot" the gun at a passerby. We pulled up alongside a guy getting out of his car, after he had parked it on the side of the street. I lowered the window and yelled, "Fire!" Andre pulled the trigger just as this kid opened his door. The laser noise and red light went off. The kid jumped and cowered behind his car door in fright. It was quite possibly the funniest thing I have seen, ever. Andre and I laughed really hard for about 10 minutes. Hopefully that kid didn't crap his pants.