AA 12 Step Service... I remember Hauling 20 gallons of water to Cohasset, CA. (Near Chico) - I was the Man with the Van and my Friend's Tenant needed it.

Automatically doing what needs to be done when it needs to be done... is a great way to live. 

The tenant was an old lady... The water was for drinking and bathing. and since I Could do The Work... I Did... EASY!

We met through AA and I did the "Service" and felt happy to be able to serve.

Bob Law was the Landlord.

Photo of Bob Law of Cohasset

Mike Jensen "volunteered" me to haul water...

Mike Jensen Self Portrait

I owned a Ford Windstar Cargo Van...

with a free mattress in the back. I became a Turtle with my home on my back... And I travelled from California thru Nevada to Utah...

Then I drove to Oregon and Washington State... where the van's transmission died... and then the engine caught fire... on Highway 5 near Centralia, Washington... I had to take Amtrak Home. The van got smashed at the junkyard recycling center in Vancouver Washington...

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Solar Powered Desalinization Factory converts Seawater into drinking water... Good for making Ice Cubes for a Scotch on the Rocks or for Showering, watering plants and livestock...


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Numbers have cultural meanings... For Example 5150 meaning is Danger to self and others. 1,4,9 is the shape of the TMA in the movie 2001... The Big Black Box. This is my list of every number I can think of and what they mean...
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/p/for-example-and-its-one-two-three-what.html


a small sample of the list...  0: number invented by Indian Mathematicians.  Brought to the middle east and then Europe by an Arabian named Al Khwarizmi. (Algebra). Handy for expressing BIG numbers like, 1 followed by a hundred zeros – a googol.  A googolplex is 1 followed by a googol zeros. Spelled differently than google.

007: James Bond, a secret agent for her Majesty in England. A Character played in the movies by Sean Connery... and a gazillion other wanna-bees.

half pipe: a skateboard word referring to a part of the skate park made out of a concrete pipe sawed in half... a big concave area remains.

¾ waltz time… 4/4 rock music and folk… 5/4 Dave Brubeck’s “Take Five”

1: The traditional beginning number used when counting. For Example: One for the Money, Two for the show, Three to get ready, now GO CAT GO! But don’t you, step on my Blue Suede Shoes. also: And it's 1, 2, 3, what are we fighting for? Country Joe and the Fish.

1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34… Fibonacci sequence… add together any two consecutive numbers to calculate the next term.

1/20/09 date Obama moved into the White House.

1.44 - Size in Megabytes of a Floppy Disk. According to Larry Niven - Science Fiction Author it's the minimum size needed for a Neutron Star.  1.44 times as large as the Sun. "The Chandrasekhar limit ." The currently accepted value of the limit is about 1.39...

1.618 Phi the golden ratio - found often in art and nature

I remember dumpster diving in Chico, California... We grabbed a Mattress and I put it in the back of my Ford Windstar Cargo Van... Then I magically became a "TURTLE" because wherever I drove, I had my home on my back...

I was waiting for an AA Meeting to start and met a kid who said he could show me where to buy Marijuana. We went to the Dealer's Apartment, Bought a Bag of Weed and... Found a Dumpster with a LOT of free stuff... The College kids often abandon their possessions after the School closes for the Summer...

I remember parking in an Oak Forest near Red Bluff in a high wind and all night the Acorns fell on the roof of the Van...Scary, like a gunshot sound... another time I was driving home from Crater Lake, Oregon and I felt really tired so I pulled off at a Campground on Highway 101 just North of Eureka... It looked Just like the Movie Jurassic Park. That's because the Movie WAS filmed there...