Apologies in advance for the random nature of today’s post. I have no themes and continuity any more. I promise I will get it back to sanity at some point.

Again, nothing naturific! today, mostly geeking out and getting content ready for our web site. The kids here are awesome, very smart, very savvy, very young and scary.

I might institute something called the “Hijinx and Hilarity Index” or HHI for short. Working with a video crew and various other strong personalities has led to the beginning of some wackiness around here. We will keep a scale, 1 being slothlike boredom and 10 being Three Stooges-style “Woop Woop Woop” slapstick. Things like me walking home alone last night and saying “Where all my frogs at?” out loud and then having two bullfrogs ribbit and jump across my path probably pushed us to a 6 today.

Also adding to the HHI is the fact that we all have the cuffs of our pants tucked into the tops of our socks, and then duct-taped shut. This causes us all to look like various members of a German folk oompah band. I promise a picture soon.

Oh, here is something concrete. I thought I had caught the dreaded Stomach Bug of JASON XV. I was pretty ill before lunch, feeling woozy and out of sorts in all matters pertaining to GI. Luckily it seemed to pass and all is well now. I think it was the fact that I’ve been pretty cavalier in my soy consumption. They have these really good fake-meat pieces that they slather in various sauces. Soy fucks you up. Not to self.

At this point I’ve degenerated into blog-ville. I might as well just start talking like there are 500 people listening and about how I feel about what someone said to me today and how no one understands me and what I ate. Oh, I’ve already been doing that? Sorry.

The really frustrating thing is that I could dish all sorts of dirt and funny anecdotes about the crew and argos here, nothing salacious mind you. But a few quick google searches for a few very popular terms could land the wrong people on this site. Whatever, those of you who get my emails know some of the stories. Maybe I’ll throw up a members only section.

A NASA atmospheric researcher is giving me shit for not drinking beer with him at 5pm every day. There, there is your dirt. I love this place. Crazy scientists, crazy kids, crazy monkeys, crazy crew, a new HHI, what’s not to love?

The leafcutter ants are tragic figures. Endlessly dragging their leaves across my door every day. Apparently they have used this same path for as long as anyone knows, at least 20 years. Well the path of eternal history met my foot today.

Looks like tomorrow I’ll get to take some 360 panorama photos of a couple locations. Download your iPix plugins now, you’ll dig it.

Until we blog again, always your faithful sweathog. Me.