Global Warming Causes More Rain: More Water in the Ocean Evaporates - More White Clouds - More Sunshine Reflected into Space - Causing Global Cooling... So... It Will be an Up Down Temperature Fluctuation...

and On the Hotter Years We Will have more Earthquakes because the Diameter of the Entire Earth Will be Larger... and those Tectonic Plates Will Slip past each other With Ease... 

and People are NOT doing much to Prevent Climate Change... on the Rare Occasions that I Leave my House, I see Massive Traffic Jams everywhere... and on the TV News they report that people are flying in Jet Airplanes MORE than ever Before...

and Last Summer there Were Forest Fires in Canada... and those trees Will Not be capturing CO2

SO... I believe Life Will be Freaking Crazy from here on... Already I See That Those People Over There are Killing Each Other... for Unknown Reasons... The only good thing about that is... Crazy People Stop Behaving Bad When Dead!

and Everyone that Currently Lives near the Equator is Walking towards the POLES... Notice that there are Masses of people fleeing Mexico? and Fleeing Africa on Boats to get to Europe?

You can see the San Andreas Fault on a Map. It Created Tomales Bay, Bodega Bay, Crystal Springs Reservoir and the Gulf of California... And 30 Travel Photos of NorCal and Southern Oregon... The State of Jefferson!

 

San Andreas Fault Map

https://www.earthquakeauthority.com/Blog/2020/San-Andreas-Fault-Line-Map

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All my Photos With Captions are on my 

FaceBorg Photo Page... 

https://www.facebook.com/GregoryVanderlaan/photos_by

Picture of Gregory Vanderlaan
at the Woodley Island Marina
Eureka, CA

Unused Bicyle Rack at Hills and Stairs University

Gregory Vanderlaan with a Giant Bud.

Biff Rose and Victoria Davis

VisionQuest!

Abalone Shells in the
Loleta Cheese Factory Garden 

Drawing inspired by Ashland, Oregon

Castle Crags as viewed from
Highway 5 - Near Oregon... 
https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=454

Dome at Blue Lake, CA Reservation -
an Excellent place for Breakfast
before traveling over
#299 to Redding and Chico...

Drawing I Did on the Hood of my Van -
and the Shadow of my Hands and Camera...

Sequoia Park Duck Pond - Eureka CA

Sequoia Park Duck Pond - Eureka CA

Golf Club Just South of the Mount Shasta
Ski Park... near the Campground... 
https://goo.gl/maps/LFcDv5KnKfspA4ip6

While taking my Blood Pressure this
morning I was watching the Blinking Icon
of a Heart... It Blinks in exact time with
my Heartbeat... and today it was playing 4/4
like a rock band drummer... 93 BPM...
sometimes it plays the "Bo Diddly Beat" -
Here's a Picture of Me at Humboldt State University... Maybe 2003...

Engraved Plaque at the Gym at
Humboldt State University...
"Health must be one of the Joys of Life
as no other joy is possible
without it." - T. More

Highway 5 approaching Oregon in the fog - unsafe to drive at night...
all the 18 wheelers had pulled
off the side of the road BEFORE
Going down the big hill in the rain...

Highway 101 Between Eureka and Arcata, CA
- The Safety Corridor...
Everyone drives Slowly "BY LAW"
and People Stopped Dying due
to Traffic Accidents...
and here is a beautiful stand of
Eucalyptus Trees...

Lumberjack cutout in the HSU Bookstore...
Put your face in the hole...

Mount Shasta Ski Park In the Summer.

Mural at the Skunk Train in Ft. Bragg CA

My Traveling Companion on the dashboard
of my Van with a couple of Pine Cones...

Humboldt State University...
I don't know where...
Maybe on Union Street
approaching Founders Hall...
I walked THAT a Lot because
there was free parking off campus.

Painting at Morris Graves Art Gallery

Morris Graves Museum, Eureka CA

Masonic Lodge in Eureka CA

Alley Cat Mural by Duane Flatmo - Eureka CA

Behind the Post Office Alley Mural
in Eureka CA by Duane Flatmo

Eureka Inn

PG&E Power Plant Humboldt Bay
photographed from the Local Road
South Broadway between
the Sequoia Humane Society and
The Country Club Market... 
https://g.page/SequoiaHumane?share

Sketchbook and My Farmville Cow -
camping in Oregon -
One of the Smartest decisions
in my Entire life was to Explore Oregon
after I retired from Work...
Sleeping in the bucket seat of
my Ford Windstar Van...
Taking Pictures... Drawing Drawings...
Listening to Jefferson Public Radio
broadcast from the College in Eugene...

The Song Eat at Joes from the movie
A Mighty Wind...
Sung by Harry Shearer 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JhLuVu-Cho

Upper Falls near McCloud CA -
Just South of Mount Shasta...
Yes... I Explored the Land all over Northern California after Retirement...
Mount Shasta Seems to be Magical...
I Had an emotion that I had
not felt with Other Mountains...

Celito Lindo - tacos to go!
500 Chetco Ave, Brookings, OR 97415-8011

Highway 101 coming back from
Brookings, Oregon

My van at McCloud Campground -
near Mt Shasta CA -
Brown Bearproof Food Locker

Restaurant at the Lucky 7 Casino in
Smith River CA... It has a nice ceiling... 
https://www.lucky7casino.com/

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Ham Radio... Selling Equipment at Radio Shack in the 1990s - I Met a Lot of Interesting and Obsessive People who were Amateurs.

It was Really Fun to Be Introduced to The Ham Radio Culture... a World I Had No Contact With...

Dot Dot Dot DASH DASH DASH Dot Dot Dot (SOS - Save Our Ship)  

One Man Had a "Mobile Command Center" Built into an Old School Bus. His Plan was that When All Communication Failed During an Earthquake, He and His Ham Radio Friends Could Help Firemen, Policemen and the National Guard... A Pretty Likely Occurrence in San Jose, CA... There Have Been Major Earthquakes in San Francisco, Oakland and Los Gatos... or... Maybe this Old Hippie Just wanted a Valid Excuse for Living in a BUS... With a Sure Fire Way to Avoid Police Harassment was to BE Part of the Law Enforcement TEAM... 

We DID Sell Amateur Radios that Require a Licence from the FCC to Operate. We DID NOT Check to see if the Customer HAD a License... or Planned to Have a License... However we Did Inform Every Customer of the NEED for Them to GET a License to Operate the Radio Legally... But anything that Happens OUTSIDE The Store Was NOT Our Responsibility...

Many Ham Radio Operators Who DO Have a License Say That They HUNT DOWN ILLEGAL OPERATORS as a Fun Hobby... Using Triangulation to Locate the Bogus Radio Operator... and Reporting Then to "Friendly Cousin Charlie." Maybe this is a False Story but... Who Knows!

I do know that Getting a License is Difficult. They require that you understand Electrical Engineering and The Basic Physics of How RADIO WORKS... and They also Test Your Speed and Accuracy in Morse Code... I knew a Ham Radio Operator who said the Morse Code Training Helped Him with his Piano Playing... a Deep Understanding of Rhythm... 

A Bigger Problem was Citizens Band Radios with an Illegal Linear Amplifier. CB Radios May Operate without any License BUT there is a Maximum Power Output for legal Radios... Well, People DO Sell Illegal BOOSTERS that allow a CB Radio to Work over VAST Distances... One Customer said he could talk to Guatemala on his CB... It Saved him a LOT of Money on his Telephone Bill... BUT... That much Power Interferes With... TV Reception, AM and FM Radio Reception, Police Band Reception and Fire Truck Communications... THAT'S WHY There is a Limit to the Power Output... FCC Laws... So Everyone Can Play Nice and Share the Airwaves... Those FCC Laws are also the Reason That WOLFMAN JACK Had His Radio Station in Mexico... No Laws to Limit His Broadcast Range. 

One Blessing of Working at Radio Shack was the Requirement That I Learn Electronics Theory... and How things Work. The Corporation Found out that More Products GET SOLD and STAY SOLD if the Clerks Understand Electronics. Selling Someone the Wrong Part Does NOT Make a Profit... It only wastes the Customer's Time and Patience... SO... We Were Required to Study and Pass Tests in 14 Different Subjects... I Learned the Physics of Antenna Design... How A VCR Works... How a TV Works... Etc Etc Etc... FREE COLLEGE ON THE TIMECLOCK... 

Amateur Radio Operators Collect Cards from Each Other Proving that they were able to Contact People Far Away. When they are Chatting, they ask for a Name and Street Address and then Mail a Postcard with the Other Person's Call Sign on it. Then they POST those Cards on the Wall of Their SHACK... 
My Friend Had a card from a Man named Fletcher on Pitcarin Island... a Descendant of the Mutiny on the Bounty... I guess if You Live on an Island in the Middle of the Ocean a Radio would be handy for Contacting People On Different Islands or The Mainland... 

Two Way Radios Either TALK or LISTEN. But Not Both at The Same Time, Like a Telephone. That's Why People say "Over" when they have finished Talking... and they release the BUTTON... People say "10-4" to tell the other person they Heard What their Friend Had to Say and Understood the Words... 

We sold a Lot of Personal Communicators that had a Short Range but 49 MHz FM Quality... They Were Small and Trendy... People Bought them for Communication While Skiing... or Going to The Mall... or Organizing a Stage Show... You Could Wear the Microphone and Speaker on Your Head, and have the Radio Clipped to Your Belt... a Really Trendy High Tech LOOK... 

I remember the Watergate Burglars Used Radio Shack CB Radios to Orchestrate Their Crime... Those Radios DO NOT WORK WELL INSIDE BUILDINGS... In G Gordon Liddy's Book "Will" he complained about the Quality of the Radios... HOWEVER... He Simply Did Not Buy The Right Product... a 49 MHz FM Radio would Have been Wonderful For Their Job... BUT... I Bet Liddy Did Not Explain His Intended USE to The Clerk... Being all HUSH HUSH and Clandestine... Dumbf*ck! His EGO caused His Failure... 

Of Course, all this is Ancient History because Cellphones are What People Use Now... 

"The Path Forward" - 20 Simple Suggestions for Making the World a Better Place to Live... #1. Tax the Rich, Cut Taxes for the 99%. All that Extra Money in People's Paychecks Will Bubble UP Thru The Entire Economy;

2. OUTLAW GERRYMANDERING: That way We Could Have Majority Rule in the USA. In Fact, Most People Prefer Majority Rule... We Tried Corporate Rule and That Was a Disaster!

3. The EPA=Enable Polluters Agency. Let's FLIP The Mission to Protecting the Environment; 4. Legalize Marijuana Nationwide, Tax It and Free All Cannabis Prisoners; 5. Legalize Medicinal Psychedelics; 6. End The Electoral College; 7. Overturn Citizens United; 8.Cut Pentagon Spending in Half; 9. Build Solar Powered Desalination Plants - We Need Fresh Drinking Water!

If YOU Have Any Ideas, Tell Me and I'll Include them in this eBook. gregvan[at]yahoo[dot]com

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FREE Chart of Where the Notes Are on the Guitar and Piano. Print As Many Copies as You Like and Give 'em to Friends... or Strangers That Are About to Become Friends!

My AutoBiography: Growing Up in Los Gatos, California in the 1960s by Gregory Vanderlaan - and Living in Chico, Washington DC, Eureka and Orangevale.

 https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/growing-up-in-los-gatos-california-in.html

Here's a Sample Paragraph or Two... 

One peak experience in Los Gatos while I was in High school was attending "The Tower of Power" concert outdoors at the Chateau Liberte... In the Redwoods near Summit Road...  I remember going with my friend Rich Field  ( a trumpet player) to the Concert. We saw how "The Tower" achieved the flute to trumpet blending on the song "Diamonds Sparkling in the Sand". One man walked towards his microphone while the other walked away... both were playing the same note... This amazed Rich as he was a jazz band member at school and this effect was a mystery to him until we saw it done... I also remember that the Hell's Angels and The Gypsy Jokers Motorcycle clubs both arrived at the concert at the same time and I was concerned that there would be violence... so I walked to the other side of the concert as far as possible away from them.... Years later I learned that they OFTEN partied together at the Chateau and my fears were unjustified... and then I rode down the mountain in a convertible sports car... all while I was high on LSD, so every emotion had amplified significance... what a wonderful trip.

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I remember playing my harmonica at a school play with Barry Hill. It was called "Sneaky Fitch is Dead" and I had a great time performing... Every new scene had a song to listen to while the actors and stagehands got ready for the next scene... A segue...

We also performed "Hippie from Olema" by the Youngbloods at a talent show in the high school gym. Barry Hill, Rich Field and Nancy King and Rachael Ludlum were also in the band. Washtub Bass, Jug, Guitars. harmonica and Washboard...

We used to play "Keep Away" with a volleyball in the LGHS Pool. Swim Team vs Football Team. We, The Swim Team Always Won because all I Had to do was Hold a Football Player's Head under the water and they Panicked and Released the Volleyball. WIMPS!

Many of the LGHS students performed as "Spearchuckers" and Slaves in the Opera "AIDA" at the San Jose Civic Auditorium. There was a touring opera company and they filled the stage with locals from high school drama departments... They instructed us to move our mouths BUT DO NOT SING... They had a choir that did the singing and we would have just been annoying and off key. Since the big scene we were in was when the hero came back from the Africa with the spoils of war (an elephant and a tiger). We had to cover our bodies with dark brown stage paint... We were supposed to be playing the part of black people but there were no Actual black students at LGHS... I had long blond hair but they just tucked that up under a hat... Big Fun... My girlfriend Liz Dunbar was in the Opera also... and when we got home we took a shower together to wash off the Makeup... 

In 1971, a friend of mine went to San Francisco and went to the Fillmore West and came back to our high school and said... LET"S BUILD OUR OWN using the old mill in the center of town. We formed an organization called "Youth Unlimited" and got the Town to Sponsor Us with $1 per year rent for Forbes Mill. 

That was the beginning of The Forbes Mill Teen Club in Los Gatos California... We had a light show and electric rock music every weekend... On Wednesday nights we performed folk music.  I was the head of security and did advertising posters. I used the mimeograph machine at the High School to print the posters for upcoming shows...

"Youth Unlimited" first held a concert in the Rec Room of the Presbyterian Church next to Old Town on University Ave. There was a live rock band that featured a saxophone player with an electric sax. We also formed a drum circle outside with me playing harmonica and a couple of guitar players. 

Since we had Town sponsorship of our "Teen Club" thru the organization Youth Unlimited, we had to make sure no laws were being broken at Forbes Mill or the police would shut us down. Certainly no drinking or illegal drug use or housing of runaways. My take on law enforcement was to direct potential lawbreakers to the nearby hole in the fence that lead to the wooded area next to the freeway.  I admit that a lot of laws were broken on State of California property, but that was NOT MY CONCERN. I was responsible for making sure that OUR property was crime free.

The light show was created by using four slide projectors and two spinning wheels with variable speed motors that blocked the light from reaching the white wall behind the bandstand. Each cardboard wheel had holes cut into it so that the slides would be projected in a stroboscopic manner.  Some slides were abstract art created by "crystal craze" paint and others were photographs.

We also owned a strobe light and I learned to not point it at the electric organ player because the blinking light made it impossible to see which keys were black and which were white...

"Youth Unlimited" also built a crisis center called Fre-Ba-ZAK House. 

 It was in an old wooden home on North Santa Cruz Ave. The idea was to have a place for runaways to have a safe location to negotiate with their parents. Kids that had nowhere else to go could go there ... My friend Richard Bergholdt worked there as a counselor. I used to go there because it was a fun place to go talk with other classmates... I remember drinking coffee and discussing weighty subjects late at night. One time I went there because I couldn't go home. I had gone to the Ike and Tina Turner concert at the San Jose Convention Center and took a Large Dose of LSD. I had to wait until my parents went to sleep before going home. It was a great concert and I remember that MANY of the students at LGHS went. I also remember listening to the FM radio there. Talks by Alan Watts about Buddhism... and the story "The Cave" by Plato. There were some totally free radio stations then. They had the freedom of selecting what to play and when to play it. I heard "Space Hymn" by Lothar and the Hand People at Fre-Ba-ZAK House.

In the 1960s I made tie dyed shirts using rubber bands and boiling the dye... one color... RIT brand named dye... Mom sewed a shirt with bell sleeves and a Nehru collar... I wore it with a bell around my neck. Like, totally "mod" like the fashion that was popular with the teenagers in England... 

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