{"id":59,"date":"2008-02-26T12:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-26T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.luterra.com\/blog\/?p=59"},"modified":"2008-02-26T12:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-26T12:05:00","slug":"trains-planes-and-automobiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luterra.com\/blog\/?p=59","title":{"rendered":"Trains, planes, and automobiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m headed to Oregon tomorrow to check out Oregon State and it&#8217;s department of Biological and Ecological Engineering. Flying out, staying four days at OSU, spending a couple of days with cousin Emma and aunt Kathy, then catching Amtrak in Eugene for the 36-hour train ride back to Minneapolis<\/p>\n<p>In the past few weeks I have:<\/p>\n<p>-rebuilt Jean&#8217;s computer after her hard drive failed<br \/>-helped said person with a jigsaw puzzle while enjoying some quality time with my godmother that has been hard to come by of late<br \/>-walked eight miles on river ice<br \/>-examined a group of large (cat?)fish through clear windows in said ice<br \/>-climbed a tree to watch a sunset at -25 windchill<br \/>-produced 14 DVD&#8217;s containing the past 2 1\/2 years of home video<br \/>-helped Chris to construct new walls in the Lightsmith building<br \/>-dropped a 2&#215;4 on Chris&#8217;s head while constructing said walls<br \/>-packaged well over 10,000 little cartons of homeopathic lozenges into ~50 large boxes<br \/>-transcribed a number of channelings<br \/>-attended a number of channelings<br \/>-asked the Earth Mother for her take on genetic engineering and hydrogen production<br \/>-attended a great concert with musician\/stand-up comic Cheryl Wheeler and equally-talented musician Kenny White<br \/>-and many other things.<\/p>\n<p>My blog should spring back to life with a report of my Oregon trip, though it is somewhat doubtful that I will be able to post until I after I return on March 6. Hopefully I will find time and motivation then to put up some new photo essays with New York, Winter Carnival, and Oregon pictures&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6184741065985147906-4944563183801984511?l=www.luterra.com\/musings\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m headed to Oregon tomorrow to check out Oregon State and it&#8217;s department of Biological and Ecological Engineering. Flying out, staying four days at OSU, spending a couple of days with cousin Emma and aunt Kathy, then catching Amtrak in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.luterra.com\/blog\/?p=59\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luterra.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luterra.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luterra.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luterra.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luterra.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.luterra.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luterra.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luterra.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luterra.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}