It's Been a While.

I haven't posted a blog for around a week, now.
My schizophrenia has been acting up. I've been fantasying about things that never happened and I've also been having rather sexual fantasies.
I'm getting over it. My energy is up from where it's been and I got out to the claim yesterday. Mostly I just looked for the missing utility trailer. I didn't get down to the river.
I intend to simply get on a swim suit and walk around the river, dowsing. I need to find out if there is any gold to be found in the river.
I'm giving up on climbing the hill where I feel some 49ers might have dropped some coins. It's just too steep for me. I went shopping for a walking stick, today. It was $70 and I might get it later. That will help me get up the hill. I feel there might be coins up there because it would have made a good place to get out of a downpour. There is an overhang where people could have taken shelter. Maybe someone dropped a coin there. We'll see.
I'm still trading Lite Coin. I don't think the crisis in Greece is over, yet.
I keep buying gold and silver. I can't really afford it but I want to get to where I was with metals before I came out here. I had to sell everything but at least I had something to sell. When I'm trading options or stocks I lose it all.
I need to get serious about prepping. I've got all sorts of cabinet space but I haven't put anything in them yet.
I also need to get serious about getting a job. I've got the forms and college transcripts for the social work job. I need to get that filled out tonight.
It looks like I'll be shoveling snow this winter. I'll have to find places to do that, as well.
The temperature has gone down, here. It's cloudy and we are getting some smoke from a fire north of here. Maybe that is moderating the temperature. It's been so hot that it has discouraged me from prospecting.
Well, that's all for now.
Later

Not Much is Going Right, Now

Last week I started buying Litecoin, on margin. Litecoin is a cryto-currency and margin means borrowing money. I had hallucinations where I had convinced the finance minister of Greece to use Litecoin as his currency. Well, I jumped in with both feet.
The first thing that happened is that the trading platform I'm using will not let me sell to close my position. Therefore I could only buy.
That worked fine for a while; I ran $180 into $1200 right off the bat. Then I went to bed one night and found that I was down to $106.
I was still convinced that I was right about Greece so I transferred more money into the account even though I couldn't sell. It went up and then down when it became obvious that Greece wasn't going to do anything with crypto-currency.
I've tried to get a hold of the support for the trading platform but I've had no luck with that. I'm still locked up with trading but at least it isn't crashing.
More bad news is that my trailer (small Harbor Freight) has vanished. I had left it at the claim since it costs $55/month to store. I didn't lose much mining gear (only a couple of buckets a shovel and a small gold pan). There might be some other things gone but I can't remember just what was in the trailer. I still have a metal detector and a large pan so I can still mine gold. I'll have to pick up a bucket tomorrow.
Oh well, enough grousing. Shit happens, but I'm not out too much. I was thinking about getting rid of the trailer, anyway. I can still mine; I just have to get up the energy to actually do it. At least Litecoins seems to have found a bottom.
Later

Been Trading Crypto-Currency

When the Greek crisis started I started trading crypto-currencies. I started with Lite Coin and branched out to NMC and PPC.
Crypto-currencies are digital currencies; they are only on the Internet, as in virtual. I feel that they are more real than the regular or (fiat) currencies. You can only make so many of them; fiat currencies can be printed into eternity.
I transferred some money into a leveraged trading platform. It's stuck in a mode where I can only buy more coins. I haven't been able to sell or transfer any money out of that platform. The good thing is that I'm multiplying my money.
The bad thing is that if anything goes wrong I'll lose everything before I can get it out.
I made a support ticket and I'm waiting to hear back from them. I hope to leave the money in there at least until the Greek crisis is over.
I'm trading 24 hrs. a day all week long but I'm multiplying my money by 2 or 3 times over every day. It's hard to get too angry about it.
I haven't done much about hunting for gold. I'm trying to climb a hill  where I feel that some coins may have been dropped by some of the old 49er's. I want to metal detect up there. It's just too steep for this "old fogy" to climb.
I've got some boots for walking out into the river with. I don't want to cut up my feet by walking out there with nothing on my feet. The whole area is full of sharp rocks.
Tomorrow I'm going out on the river. Wish me luck with finding gold
Later

I Can't Find my Car Titles

I was going to transfer my cars and license to California, today. I couldn't find the titles to the car and trailer; not to mention the motor home. I guess that I'll have to get copies.
I've still been too tired to go looking for gold. It't hotter than heck, here. It's hot but I think my not going after gold has more to do with schizophrenia than anything else. I've been spending a lot of my time fantasying about things that never happened. That's me.
I was also going to look for a job; but that didn't happen either. I'm afraid that if I find a job I'll lose my nice apartment. It's subsidized and I can't make too much money or I'll lose it.
I did get signed up for Bitgold today. So I guess I got something done. You can Google Bitgold; but it's Bitcoin backed up with gold. It seems like the best of crypto-currency and gold. I'll be able to store my gold in Zurich and transfer it easily.
I haven't had much to say lately. I'll see about uploading a picture of Mt. Shasta on my next blog. I took it with my phone camera the other day. I need to get it to Google Drive.
I succeeded. Here is Mt. Shasta.

Later

View from My New Apartment

I'm uploading a picture from the balcony of my new apartment. I really like it here. The scenery is awesome and it's a pleasant place to be.

You can see why I liked this place.

I applied for a job at the local VA office, today. I think I'm qualified; I hope I get the job. 

If I were employed I could look for gold on the weekends. 

Well, that's all that is happening for now. I'm busy with my move and panning for gold.

Later.

I Found Gold; Then I Lost it.

I went to the claim that I've been digging at this morning. I'm still dowsing; and I noticed that the target moved from the hole to the pile of dirt.
I couldn't find a nugget but I noticed that a lot of the grains of sand were quite shiny. Therefor I panned out a pan of the dirt.
While I was panning I saw a streak of gold that was on the bottom of the pan. I should have taken it out right then and there but I thought I could pan out more gold by keeping on panning. Of course, I'm new at this and I washed out the gold.
There were two things I learned:

1. Always pan into a tub so if something washes out you can repan it and retrieve it again.
2. When you see gold, collect it right then. 

The important thing is that there is gold where I'm looking for it. Dowsing seems to be working; if it's not, then there is plenty of gold to be found on that claim.
I'm having trouble with my diabetes. I know that a Christian Scientist would basically say to ignore it or pray it away.
I was watching something on PBS today that recommended a diet change. I will go with what they were recommending. I've already cut out a lot of sugar from my diet by not drinking sodas. I'm afraid I'll have to quit eating ice cream as well. That is a major thing to me. I already feel better. Of course I'll call a practitioner as well.
Well that's all for today.
Later

Getting an Apartment

I haven't given up on finding gold; but I have given up on moving my motor home out here to live in.
It's just too expensive to bring out the motor home, right now.
I'm debating going back and picking up the stuff that's in the motor home with my van and maybe bringing it out, later.
I don't know what I'll do with the motor home; but for now I'm getting an apartment. It's a subsidized thing. So I'll be limited on my income or I'll lose the apartment.
I don't know why I decided to get an apartment; it probably has something to do with always taking the path of least resistance. Getting the motor home out here would not only be expensive but it would be a hassle to travel to and from Iowa as well. It would cost at least $800 in gas alone to bring the motor home out here. I would also have to spend $200 to $300 in bus fare to get back to Iowa. That is not even considering the difficulty of driving a motor home through the mountains. I had a hard enough time driving a van with a small trailer over all of the mountain roads.
The apartment that I'm applying for is really nice. It has free internet access, a pool, and a community center as well.
I'm a little disappointed with myself for not getting out and looking for gold more often. I'm spending more time filling out forms for the apartment and such.
I'm listening to Jesse Ventura on RT right now. I think I'll sign off.
Later.