I recorded this a few months ago, but some reason never uploaded it till now lol. The House That Cherry Built is a poem in The South Polar Times volume 3..I've never been able to find the whole thing, and the book is over $3,000 (so that's why I wanted to win the Nenana Ice Classic LOL), but I decided to recite some of it anyway (it's in reference to the hut Cherry and co. built near Cape Crozier). Here are the lines:



There's been more Keith drama..Liz lives a couple houses down from where he used to live with his friend, but has since been trespassed from there. Keith went over there yesterday and was arrested, but they let him out of jail (WHY) and he went over there AGAIN. Liz was like "NOPE" and called the police, and he was arrested once again. This morning Liz said he called the Literacy Council from jail (Liz just hung up) and tried to get his stepdad to bail him out (he came home early to make sure things are ok and stuff), but he was like "you're on your own!" so he's still in jail..relieving to hear that, everyone's tired of being on edge and wondering if he'll come to the Literacy Council again. Becky called today and she sounded so sad and hurt and betrayed. :( She is going to sell her truck and get a new one..she wants one Keith won't recognize and get triggered and come to LCA or wherever. Poor Becky, this situation is just awful! I keep telling everyone "things must improve" (I wrote it on Denise's whiteboard lol) and Denise has been really stressed out so I told her an inside joke from high school to hopefully make her laugh: "breathe, in, out, monkey tequila!" and it did, yay! (Denise told that to Becky too and got her laughing as well. :D) I REALLY hope Keith gets some help, he is definitely not in a good state of mind right now D:

( pics for may 2-4 )

Today's trivia: The first time the word "hell" was used on television was in 1967 on Star Trek, when Captain Kirk said "let's get the hell out of here"

Today mom and I drove to Nenana (about an hour away) to see the tripod on the river for the Nenana Ice Classic before the river breaks up (it would have been cool to see it break up, but that would take some crazy luck lol). The watchman said he thought there was a day or two to go before it broke up. I have two guesses for today, tomorrow, and one for Tuesday, so hopefully it'll break up then haha. I love this game :P

This morning Denise called me in tears saying Becky's son Keith got high and then trashed the bookstore early this morning. He's been having issues, but I was still shocked to hear what he did..he knocked over bookshelves, tore down the camera wires from the ceiling so the camera couldn't record him (which luckily failed, they have a video of him. He was crawling on the thin pipes by the ceiling to get to the wires!), threw books everywhere, smashed plant pots and a glass cabinet, destroyed the water cooler, etc. Amazingly enough, someone was riding by on their bike and heard a crash, and called the police when he saw what was going on. Keith had barricaded himself in, but opened the door when he saw the police and said everything was fine because he worked there (WTF). The police eventually got rid of the barricade and Tased Keith, but it still took three officers to get him down and handcuff him. Wow. Becky's out of town, so that makes it even worse for her. As bad at it was though, it could have been worse..the sprinkler system didn't go off (he could have set it off since he was crawling around up there) and he didn't set anything on fire, which would have been a total loss in either case. There's a lot of clean up to do, but we can rebuild and replace what was damaged (as Cherry's friend Wilson said, "things must improve"). Mom and I stopped by after we got back from Nenana..a lot had been cleaned up already, but the pics Denise showed me were awful and sad..why would he want to destroy our awesome bookstore?? I hope he gets some help..wow (he's in jail right now, and definitely not allowed at the bookstore anymore). We will rebuild!!!

( some pics of the tripod )

( pics for april 29 and 30 )