Engineering Haiku

I shared this with Kyle a while ago. I thought I'd share with the rest of you:

Sometimes I get bored with work.

Recently I turned a bunch of the drawing notes into Haikus. The plans didn't go out this way...but I had fun...(and I realize that I have not maintained the spiritual aspect behind the idea of the Haiku...but cut me some slack: I'm dealing with drawings of water and sewer lines... :) )

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Existing guardrail

gravel to match existing

see standard detail

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Double doors go here

dead bolt with dummy handle

solid door anchors

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saw cut and tack coat

seal finished edges here

only crushed backfill

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Note: plumb in drop tube

to drain oil from genset

note all louvers size

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and a note to the cad tech who made the drawing:

Like warm winter snow

lineweights are heavy and soft;

makes plan hard to read
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x,
L

Madness and the Hamsterwheel

Recently reading Truman Capote's *In Cold Blood* and there was Belligham as a significant place for Perry Smith, one of the two ciminals and allegedly the murder of all 4 Klutters. Throw in the DC sniper duo and The Ham starts to look much spookier than it ever did on my daily lovely walks from Fairhaven Creek Apartments on the woodsy trail down to Village Books.

Besides Gary Snyder's poetry, have any of you come across other Ham references in the Lit/Cinema world? I'd love to know for future planning of a Ham unit in a literary places of the PNW I'll teach in the future and on which I'd be interested in a collaborative construction of the syllabus.