I know, we're already a week into two thousand four, and it's only now that I'm writing. Well.
December was a very busy month, between working (although I still haven't updated the friggin site), playing music, working on Lis Harvey's record, traveling for the holidays, and everything else.
We had a largely wonderful time in New Hampshire for Christmas this year. Flip-flopping between our respective home states is getting a little old, but we always love it while we're there. The most interesting part of visiting these days is seeing how the littlest of little brothers continues to grow.
The big news last month was my brother getting a job. He's a wildlife biologist, so jobs are not as plentiful as they are in other industries, especially in the current economic (and possibly political) climate. He is going to be working on Guam, and is moving some time in the next couple of weeks.
Yes, that's right. Guam. Yes, this one, many thousands of miles away. About 12 of them.
He's going to be studying the biology of the brown tree snake. This is a snake that has pretty much wiped out everything native on Guam. It was accidentally introduced earlier in the twentieth century, and has wreaked havoc ever since. So Isaac will be there studying the little buggers to try to devise some plan to get their numbers back down. Apparently there are something like 13,000 of them in every square mile of that little island. Holy shit!
You can learn more about the snakes from the USGS.
Meantime, I'll be starting another blog for Isaac so he can keep us all posted on life in the South Pacific. I still can't believe he's going.