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Other Aspects of My Life
Liz and the cats |
Some people say that my work is my life, but I would
rather say that my life coincides closely with my work. That is to say,
for the most part, I get paid to do the things I would do if I didn't
work (ah, life was so simple back then. I suppose I should get around
to updating this statement, but it just seems so quaint now).
However, I do enjoy some things that I can't get paid to
do. I like to camp in the remote reaches of the desert - as far from
other people as I can get. I also like to watch birds, and there are
some great places around Las Vegas to do that. But one of the best
things is to sit on the Zone-tailed
Ranch in northwestern Arizona and watch the sunset. And if I
get tired of that, I can sit on our Starlight
property in the California desert and relax. |
ZT Ranch |
In the mean time, while we are in
town, we cruise the Las Vegas strip and watch the weirdos, or we can
stay home and play with the two
cats who graciously let us live in their house. We eventually lost those two cats, but Liz found another homeless cat, and now Mocha isn't homeless anymore. If all else
fails, I can always stay inside (in the air conditioning) and work on
my hiking, birding, and southern Nevada
wilderness areas websites, or add to my Miscellaneous Ecological Notes
Series (I guess I don't get around to that very often any more). These
notes are compilations of eMail discussions that I participated in and
were of some general interest or other notes and comments. |
Starlight |
One other thing we do in the Nevada desert is wait and
watch for UFOs. Now most people would say that UFOs don't exist, but I
am here to say that this just isn't the case. As you would know from
reading other parts of my web site, I work on the Nevada Test Site
where the government keeps captured "vehicles" and
frozen bodies.
Of course, I can't tell anyone about my activities in "the area that
doesn't exist" (generally identified by an integer between 50 and 52).
In the mean time, keep the faith and check out the ET
Highway that runs through middle Nevada and was recently
dedicated by the state.
Needless to say, life in the desert is good to us. |
Yucca Mountain |
I worked on the Yucca Mountain
Project for
11 years. This project was an attempt by the US Department
of Energy to bury high-level nuclear waste in a permanent
underground storage site
(repository) under Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada. I started as an
Animal Ecologist, but held different jobs as the politics (and
therefore the funding) changed. Yucca Mountain was of environmental
interest to me because it is located in the little-studied
transition
zone between the hot and dry Mojave Desert to the south and the
cold and dry Great Basin Desert to the north. |
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