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yesterday i got evicted from my house. there wasnt much warning. right when i woke up at 7am, my mom came to the door and told me we lost the lawsuit with the bank and that we had to be ready to go by 9. after living there for seven years, me my mom and my sister had to pack up everything we owned and leave in less than a day. luckily we got most of our possessions into public storage and our dad allowed us to crash at his place. so far so good.
the moving operation went smoothly enough, but deep down i was angriest at myself. if i had just found a fossil dealer first instead of focusing on prepping and iding my fossils myself i might have been able to do something about this. i knew we were in trouble financially, but my plans were to long term and i probably missed every opportunity to help without realizing it. after that came slow boiling feelings of self hate, saddness and uncertainty about the future. i had to keep VERY busy with the packing and moving tasks to avoid dwelling on this.
most of my side projects are suspended if not over entirely. the majority of my fossil collection is in public storage for now. all low grade potential fossils were dumped in the gravel patch. fossil prep tools and some petoskey stones will be kept on hand rather than be put into storage.
the fossils in my reburial experiment will not be retrieved. i am not certain if i will be allowed to check on them this spring anyway. the fossils use were expendable and should not be missed.
my conodont extraction jars were dumped as well (not that that project was a big success anyway). rock samples slated to be dissolved next were save and put into storage.
i took the best cultures from my 6 kombucha jars and fit them into 2 storage jars. this weeks fluid was harvested but the contents of the rest of the jars had to be dumped into the dirt.
the peppers and potatoes i planted will have to fend for themselves. the the compost piles i supercharged with wood eating fungi will probably revery to ordinary soil by the end of the winter. creating new piles in the future should not be difficult.
the moving operation went smoothly enough, but deep down i was angriest at myself. if i had just found a fossil dealer first instead of focusing on prepping and iding my fossils myself i might have been able to do something about this. i knew we were in trouble financially, but my plans were to long term and i probably missed every opportunity to help without realizing it. after that came slow boiling feelings of self hate, saddness and uncertainty about the future. i had to keep VERY busy with the packing and moving tasks to avoid dwelling on this.
most of my side projects are suspended if not over entirely. the majority of my fossil collection is in public storage for now. all low grade potential fossils were dumped in the gravel patch. fossil prep tools and some petoskey stones will be kept on hand rather than be put into storage.
the fossils in my reburial experiment will not be retrieved. i am not certain if i will be allowed to check on them this spring anyway. the fossils use were expendable and should not be missed.
my conodont extraction jars were dumped as well (not that that project was a big success anyway). rock samples slated to be dissolved next were save and put into storage.
i took the best cultures from my 6 kombucha jars and fit them into 2 storage jars. this weeks fluid was harvested but the contents of the rest of the jars had to be dumped into the dirt.
the peppers and potatoes i planted will have to fend for themselves. the the compost piles i supercharged with wood eating fungi will probably revery to ordinary soil by the end of the winter. creating new piles in the future should not be difficult.
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March
This month was one of limited progress. I was unemployed for nearly a year, but I had my first day of my new job today. Nothing fancy, not even in my field. But it pays higher than any job I've had yet. Sadly this means there will be less time for microfossil extraction, and probably less posting. I have been getting more views, but I am not getting a Daily Deviation any time soon. I don't expect many views, I post to get my ideas on a google search and disseminate my ideas that way. It has worked, people on Facebook recognized me when I started posting there. But I was also mocked and pranked often. Did not want. I don't have as many fossils to share anymore, so I am not as active on Facebook as I used to be. I volunteer at UM to talk to other fossil fans, like the heads of vertebrate and invertebrate paleontology there. I have some fossil friends on Facebook. But I am not sure what to do next. I may not even get to go on my summer trip to Alpena. I need to think about this for a
January
Things are calming down. The people I call my neighbors are harassing me a lot less than before. I don't know why they decided to do this, but I am much more relaxed and my hair has improved. Back in the fall of 2022 I was developing a bald spot, but electrolytes and fish oil restored my hair. And trust me, EVERY DAY I had someone reminding me I was loosing my hair. But I'm over that hill. I'm amazed at how understanding my girlfriend was. I expected any old woman to dump me in my time of difficulty. Maybe she had something to do with it. These people operate against me online as much as in person. Then again, I have more friends than I realize. My online activities are not in vain. With the heat off I think I should exercise more. My weight is around 196lbs, but it needs to be 46lbs lower. My aparment complex has a gym, so I wont have to pay for a membership. I'm extracting fossils from layer GPF9 of the late Devonian Gravel Point Formation again. Not a lot has been uncovered. A ray
December
Another month has passed, another year has passed. This month has mostly been about getting over a sore throat and depression, with Christmas and New Years' strung in between. This year has been about me getting to know my online long distance girlfriend that I met here on DeviantArt. I found some good microfossils, had a good job, some sales, some strife. All in all it could have been better. Fossil hunting was good, but more for microfossils than regular fossils. My friend needed surgery in August, so I did not go to Alpena to find Devonian fossils. I was not too upset about this, as I was focused on microfossils at the time. I was getting good microfossils out of GPF3 of the late Devonian Gravel Point Formation. Ray finned fish scales, a shark tooth, other teeth, scolecodont elements, echinoderm ossicles, ostracods, and even conodont elements. The conodonts for sure say that GPF3 is late Devonian in age, Fammennian if I interpreted that fragment correctly. I tested PLF3 of the late
November
Sorry about my last status update. It was on Thanksgiving Day, I was at my aunts, and I did a lot the next day, including getting sick with a sore throat. I tried toughing it out, but I am getting bed rest today and yesterday. My immune system is not as it once was. Probably due to the stress of the last two years. But I did sell two stickers on Redbubble. Somehow did not gain weight from the wine, beer, and turkey. PLF3 (of the Petoskey Limestone Formation) hasn't yielded much. Some scolecodont elements, plant fragments, and plenty of unknowns. Some look a little like seed pods, but seeds did not exist in the late Devonian. Maybe they are an algae cyst I haven't heard of. They might might be a prelude to the Kellwasser Event, the Frasnian-Fammenian Mass Extinction, which may have been caused by increased plant matter polluting the oceans. There is a lot of plant matter in the above Charlevoix Limestone Formation. Its no big deal if I do not find diagnostic conodonts, I found a late
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