8 x 4 x 4

Everything I own will fit into a trailer that measures 8'x4'x4'. Dylan said 'when you got nothing, you got nothing to lose.' I think what he didn't mention is that when you have a little, it's much scarier to lose it than if you had all the treasures of the world. Everything I own has meaning. Everything I have serves a purpose in my life, nothing is extraneous. I've thrown out or sold anything non-utilitarian. While I'm sure I could live without certain things, it would be very sad to lose certain things, like the guitar a homeless man gave me for a loaf of bread when I was helping Suzy put her bike on my car, or the photo of my brother and I when we were 1 and 4 years old, respectively. So maybe the lyric should go 'when you have little, you have everything to lose.'

Punctuated Equilibrium

Punctuated equilibrium is a theory in evolutionary biology which states that most species will show little to no evolutionary change throughout their history. When evolution does occur, it happens sporadically and occurs relatively quickly compared to the species full duration on earth. For this reason, the theory is sometimes called evolution by jerks. Punctuated equilibrium is commonly contrasted against the theory of phyletic gradualism (“evolution by creeps”), which hypothesizes that most evolution occurs uniformly and by the steady and gradual transformation of whole lineages.

2 weeks till Portland.