I live in Eureka, CA and like to drive north about once every six months or so to see family in Everett and Lake Stevens and also to try to listen to the music of master avant garde' jazz musician Bert Wilson and his group REBIRTH in Olympia or wherever he might be playing.(<www.bertwilson.com>) Bert is a friend I've known since the '80s and am inspired by considerabley or otherwise I doubt I'd ever come up there.

This is the fifteenth community I've tried to live in since high school and I've been here since April of '96 after breaking down in a '75 Chevy van I'd gotten in Spokane I was fixing up to live out of...siezing a rod bearing coming up from the east bay to Olympia for the 25th year reunion of the band Obrador there I've been involved with from the begining.(<www.obrador.org>)

Eureka is easy, but boring and the culture here really sucks unless a person is really into cannabis a lot which I try not to be its so inane any more. This is the largest commercial illegal marijuana growing region in the country and which corrupts the society here a great deal and makes for lots of hypocracy. I think more redneck reactionarys are into growing pot than anyone else is one thought.

Anyway hello to anyone from my distant past...I'm enjoying tribe.net quite a bit. Nothing else to do most of the time.