So I'm stealing this enviro-report thing 
from Xiled. It seems like a good way to 
set the tone. Pardon my blatant 
plagiarism! Imitation, as they say, is 
the sincerest form of flattery.

Location: Living Room 
Input Device: Lenovo ThinkPad R500 
Software: Debian + LXDE + LXTerminal + nano 
Audio: Miss R's movie noise 
Visual: Laptop screen, movie 
Energy: What? 
Mental: Off 
Emotional: Tired, very tired.

I'm currently reading John Rodgers 
Jewitt's account of his captivity. He 
was one of the two survivors of the crew 
of the American ship Boston when it was 
attacked by the Nuu-Chah-Nulth in the 
early 1800s.

It's a fascinating read so far and very 
illuminating. He's a bit biased towards 
his own civilization (which could be 
said for all of us, I'm sure), but he's 
attempting to provide a balanced 
account, which must have been difficult, 
given the killings of his fellow crewmen 
and his subsequent enslavement.

Possibly the most interesting fact of 
which I was unaware is that the roof 
planks of Nuu-Chah-Nulth longhouses were 
not fastened to the frames. This allowed 
the people to push aside a board with a 
stick when lighting a fire (to create an 
instant smokehole), but also meant that 
they had to scramble to the roofs to 
weigh down the planks with rocks during 
Vancouver Island's frequent rain/wind 
storms.

You can find the book at Project 
Gutenberg if you're interested [1].

My plan this summer is to continue 
reading first-hand accounts of life in 
early British Columbia.

There's also a major home renovation 
project on the horizon, so I'll probably 
phlog about that too.

[1] http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38010