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Blog Entry 7 of 45 Random Neural Firings
A data dump of whatever happens to be on my mind at the moment. So fasten your safety belts and clench your buttocks, this is going to be a bumpy ride! I'm a mild-mannered scientist by day, and a raving lunatic at night - and I just might be your neighbor! I grew up (though some say I haven't) in Deer Creek Canyon, in the old Glen Plym Ranch homestead next to What's now known as Deer Creek Mesa. Weekdays I commute to the University of Denver, where I work in atmospheric physics. Weekends I mostly spend trying to remodel the old homestead without ruining its historic character. Seeing as it's made of stone, that would actually be hard to do. Why I'm here, I'm not really sure... To find out more than you probably ever wanted to know about me, visit my (sadly outdated) web page at http://www.du.edu/~kmurcray

ARGH! No, Not the Spotlight!
Contributed by: Kevin Murcray   on 3/10/2006

Oh no! They went and mentioned me in the print version of the Ken-Caryl Yourhub.com! Now all my neighbors are going to know that I've been talking about them behind their backs! Guess I'd better hurry and edit out all those nasty things I said about them...

Worse yet, they'll be coming here to expecting to read a wealth of my wondorous words of wisdom! Such pressure! I can't take the pressure! Where's my anxiety medication?!

Hmmm, they even called my blog interesting. More pressure! Sheesh, if I'd a known they was going to do that, I would have written better. Or at least use spell check...

They also say I write about life in the neighborhood of Deer Creek Canyon. Well true, but it's such a sleepy little neighborhood I've already written about all that can be said about it at the moment. One thing I can do, maybe, is provide a picture or two of the neighborhood. Let's see if I can get this to work...

mmm, nope. I can't seem to get it to do anything. Maybe it doesn't like my Opera browser or something. I dunno. Oh well, most of you have probably driven up Deer Creek Canyon before anyhow... But I do hope to get the problem figured out so I can put up before and after pictures of the house since I put in the new electrical drop, new siding, and new roof on the place. But I got some painting and stuff to do first, then I have to take and develop the pictures. I wonder, does anyone besides me still shoot film?

Ah, spring plans. The aforementioned painting, maybe plant a few more trees - there's a northern-hardy kiwi that's supposed to be good down to zone 5 - maybe finally get out and do some rock-hunting again. Haven't gone rock-hunting in several years...

The problem with going rock hunting is that I'd prefer not to go alone, but if I try to drag my brother Colin along we end up spending the day looking for places to fish, and if I take my best friend Natalie along, we have a nice picnic and do some hiking, but no rock hunting. Not bad either way, but either way I still don't get to hunt rocks!

Okay, some of you are probably wondering why I want to hunt rocks anyway, what do I do with them, how do I stalk them, and just what the heck do I shoot them with. And do I need a hunting license?

Well, I'm just going to leave that up to your imagination for the moment. It's time to go home, and I can swear I hear some lonely kitties crying - hang in there, babies! Daddy's on the way home!




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Submitted By: Kevin Murcray
posted on 5/23/2006 @ 3:27:37 PM
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Great idea - if only I can write something worth publishing...
Submitted By: Stephanie Blake
posted on 5/20/2006 @ 12:43:19 PM
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I'm with you...use the printed blog as a tear sheet to get published. :)
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Kevin Murcray

Littleton , CO

Kevin Murcray has posted 45 blog entries and 54 comments since joining on 2/27/2006. Kevin Murcray 's average blog rating is 4.96.
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