So I was thinking about doing a little gold hunting. Iv'e been trying to work on an angle, theres gotta be some opportunity out there, all you gotta do is apply a little human psychology and figure out where gold would end up by accident, but not already be discovered.
After some research into local habits, I found theres plently of treasure-Hunting legends for my area.
apparently theres a forgotten quartz deposit somewhere in a creek that is a short hike from here. sounds interesting, legend says its high in silver and gold. the area around here often sees arseinopyrite as a relatively common river-stone. all would indicate possible gold concentrations. plus theres some mines around still running, at the eastern end of a trail of former "boom" mining-towns.
So maybe i will check the creek out. its a hard walk up a narrow canyon all overgrown with alders.
The other one that only few have hit with the detectors is a canal (they call it a "channel" but its a manmade replacement for what was ONCE the meandering Okanagan. they use it all summer for tubing, its a big tourist attraction. thousands per day, people floating, drinking, more floating. more drinking maybe rings, maybe watches (once at MY swimmin' hole, some kid found an Excelsior wristwatch. fuck rolex! fuck me!) local legend is, theres a super bowl ring (or other sport depending on why you ask) somewhere in it. most seem to "think" they "heard" it was in once certain area or another. (depending on whom you ask) Nobody has found it in all accounts.
a submersible detector could pick up a trace, just check around the big rocks where heavy stones fall out of the current and gather, a non-oxidizing heavy metal like gold should gather in those areas...
I also wonder about the slag deposits in lakes near old caved-in mines if gold got down the sluices to the lake, it would certainly pick up. But you'd think they have ways of ensuring NO gold gets to the lake. I wonder about checking the area with a detector, but I don't think I'll bother diving.
I want to check around old church sites too.
Even though everybody knows the gold ends up at the saloons. unfortunately, it's hard to get under the floorboards of a saloon that is still in business. And I don't much care for the idea of digging in the dirt around the back and sides of the settlements number one watering hole for 100 years.
not exactly the right type of "golden". Anyway, so I saw a play rehearsal today and one of the actors looked exactly like me.... UNCANNY even!
I was going over scenarios in my head about how I would talk to this person if I ever met him face-to face. the best think i came up with was to tell him I was him from 7 years in the furture, and that I have amnesia so I went back to prevent him from getting his head injury....
How can you get a better first impression than that? We would have to talk. he looks exactly like me. I'm serious, It's like a mirror, and NOBODY looks like me, I'm kinda strange looking, not ugly, but unique. he even MOVES like me, I was tripping, not literally, but it was strange.
at least hi had a different voice.... I should copy it. mwa ha ha ha!
maybe we should go into business together, we could work a ton of double overtime for some under-staffed construction company for only a regular 40 each. the boss would think were a machine.
I think I saw this guy at the beach one time.... I thought I was having a flashback in the third person. Only now that iv'e seen him again have I fully accepted that YES! theres really someone who looks EXACTLY like me.
Theres no way he can be a relative, apparently he was talking with my wife once, she said she basically just stared at him dumbstruck as he rambled on and on about the same sort of silly shit I do.
I wonder if hes into mischief... I can think of a few things. most of them involve people I know finding out that i'm really 2 people. SORTA like the baby from full-house, or mili vanilli.
i figure it would be cool to be friends with a person who is just like you in appearance, but what if we hated each other? We would become like austin powers and doctor evil.
how do you make an excuse to make friends with someone who clearly looks like you? like, "hey man, I just noticed you look like me, and i thought it might be cool to know ya."
Or i could try to sue him for identity theft, charge him with "studlywrite infringement" get him to sign a petition to allow human cloning, the possibilities for a gag are endless.
maybe he noticed me too and thought, "gee, is that me over there?" and is thinking of a way to casually pretend he mistook me for a mirror. I'd totally play along. he's an actor, probably does random improvs all the time.
Well, I'll probably see him one day and use one of these clever ice-breakers.
there was also someone in the cast who looked JUST like my sister, and another that looked EXACTLY like Brittany Spears , (after kids)
It's like I'm in oz, and you were there, and you were there...
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