Missing Time??

Well, so much for my daily updates! I just couldn't find anything profound to discuss in the past few days. Work has been hectic, and when I get home, I just want to wind down and relax. Hours upon hours in a DNA lab will do that to a person. It doesn't help that I have been introduced to the evil world of Webkinz - my black cat Eclipse (named after my cat Dash's shelter name) has been taking up way too much of my time! Plus I'm trying to win an X-Box on club.live.com. So really, I have no good excuses. :)

This weekend was nice, but it flew by as usual. I didn't get nearly as much done as I'd have liked, but we finally did manage to make it out to see the newest Harry Potter movie. We also went to McCall's pumpkin farm and did the three open corn mazes, which were fun, but not quite as cool as the huge one from the last few years. We also scavenged for gems in the mill, roped us some calves, and played on the new giant air trampoline before getting our pumpkins. A good time was had by all.

That brings us to today...I had my monthly "salon" - an informal gathering of people with like-interests, set at the home of one of the participants. This is what our attempt at starting a MUFON chapter has turned into. By not affiliating ourselves with the club, we're a bit freer to discuss more things. I've been involved with MUFON since I was a teenager, if not earlier (I really do need to dig up my membership card to figure out when I first started with it). Since turning 18, I've been a field investigator in training, too lazy to complete the exam and graduate to full blown investigator...one day, perhaps. Anyway, these salons are fascinating, as we have some really interesting people with amazing stories attending, but they last forever!! I was fine until about 5 hours in, but then I just got so antsy it wasn't fun anymore. It lasted about 6 hours, but most of the time did fly by - we discussed all sorts of interesting paranormal phenomenon, but the most fascinating thing was footage of George Knapp's presentation at the MUFON symposium discussing the Skinwalker Ranch in the Uintah Basin in NE Utah. Talk about some eerie things going on! I won't discuss all the details here, but let's just say it's a hotbed for everything from cattle mutilations to supposed interdimensional portals.

As an aside, before everyone thinks I'm a complete kook, I don't necessarily buy everything I hear on the paranormal side of things, but I think this world is full of a lot of things we have yet to discover and don't really understand, and I like to keep an open mind. MUFON is an organization of scientists and engineers dedicated to researching the unexplained, particularly UFOs, and one day when I'm less lazy I'd like to take my biological credentials and really do some research of my own. Some day...

So I haven't fallen off the planet, and I haven't forgotten my blog...hopefully I'll be more apt to keep up with it, if I actually have something to say! For now, I best get some rest - DNA crunching starts again tomorrow!