I cant fight this feeling anymore....snore...
It literally takes a slow count of 30 to get from my front page to where I can see the Post an Entry page, then another 30 seconds to sort itself out so I can start typing. I don't know if it's the virus protection or something else, but it is not conducive to blog writing. I have also been very tired this week. Monday and Wednesday are art, Tues. was a meeting, and tonight Lost is not on so I have no distractions there. I do mean to go to bed early though. Every morning I am just wiped out. Part of that is that M,T, and W I was either blowing leaves with the back pack blower or raking them and picking them up with a pitch fork. All a huge strain on my winter weakened muscles, and so my neck feels like someone twisted the muscles into knots. Actually today I got a break, even though it killed me not to be working on such a fine day. Our backhoe had a flat tire, so we had to wait around for the tire company to come and fill it up. We have an air compressor, but the tire was separated from the rim enough that it would not seal in the air. The tire company has a gadget that is an air tank with a quick release and it FWOOMPS a ton of air into the tire real quick, thus making a seal so you can pump it up.
The reason the tire went flat is probably because we have to keep the tires under-inflated to get it to fit into the garage. Our garage was not built to house a backhoe sadly, and you cant leave it outside or the vandals would trash it. So short of cutting the roof off the thing, we let the air out of the tires and it clears the I-beams with an inch to spare. Keeping the tires low is ok, until you do a lot of pushing. Things that don't want to move cause the tires stress, and probably caused the deflation. But things like this are just such a huge time waster. Then again, my shoulders do feel a bit better now.
So on to things I have been neglecting. The Bottle Bill. Here in MA, you pay an extra 5 cents on any carbonated bottled or canned drink. If you don't return the bottle, the state gets to keep your nickel. It didn't start that way but that is the way it is now. So the state is thinking of raising the bottle bill to 10 cents, and including all bottles, not just ones with carbonation (what a stupid thing that was anyway!) Well, that is great, but in my opinion it should be 25 cents. But who cares what I think, right? Covering all containers is a good start at least. I can't tell you the fortune I can make on water bottles alone that I pick up. Don't mind if they have been used as pipes do you? But of course the people who sell bottled things are against this, as I am sure the stores will be because they have to handle them. But you know, they crush them all up and put them in big bins anyway, so I don't really think it's a huge deal. They just want it to sound like it is. Of course they all want to look green when they put out adds, but heaven forbid they do anything real to change the environment.
Home prices are down. That was actually news. NO SHIT?! What a shock. Housing prices have been insanely overblown for years now, and they are crying because the prices are going down? Don't people get that half the problem with the credit crisis is the fact that people kept jumping the prices of their homes, and other people kept buying them at those outrageous prices? They were fake to begin with. So going down means they are becoming more NORMAL, and I do mean becoming, they have a long way to go. Yeah, people who bought homes when they were high (I mean the prices, but I guess it could go for the buyers) are going to loose. That's kinda too bad. They fell for this foolish market. People were buying homes for $400,000. as TEAR DOWNS. That is insane! But it looked good for a few years because for a while, it was actually working. Then the bottom fell out and they saw that the Emperor really didn't have any clothes on. So now that the prices are actually coming down, people with normal incomes might have a chance to buy, if only someone were left with the confidence to lend them some money.
Urban Decay. This was an interesting NPR report about using all the mulch that is collected from around the cities to manufacture heat and methane. I am not sure how hot the mulch temps get as the microbes munch away, I think they were talking about 150', but I'm not sure. I'm also not sure what you can do with the heat, perhaps heat water pipes and then send that water into buildings. How far would that go? Anyway, I think it's a great idea worth doing if only to heat a few buildings. If it saves $5000 to $10,000 in oil costs for one year, and provides methane to use for generating electric power, why not? As it is they have to truck it all somewhere and dispose of it, where the heat and methane just get wasted. I know from our cemetery how warm those piles are, even in the dead of winter. Break them open and watch the steam rise. I suppose the tricky part is how to make it so that you can remove the compost easily. I think it can be done fairly easily. Heck, I have an idea in my mind now.
So I poked fun of Obama, now I have to say how much I laughed when Hillary gave her account of duck and cover when she got of a plane. Which she says now was 'misspeaking' and was the result of lack of sleep. Mrs. Clinton, do I really want you answering the phone in the middle of the night with delusions of snipers? And really folks, misspeaking is not lying. Misspeaking is when you do a Freudian slip or something. Lying is when you don't tell the truth. She might have miss-remembered the day, though she seemed pretty clear about what she was talking about. I think it was a Moose Moment. And like all good Moose, she got caught.
The Ledger is now going to give some of it's customers not just a free Friday paper, but a free Monday paper as well. Sat. Only customers can now be more annoyed at the extra paper they are given that they don't want, and have to dispose of, and they can be amazed that the Ledger actually puts our a paper so freaking tiny on a weekday. Wow, a whole 8 pages! Can I believe what I have been missing? It's embarrassing really. Oh, and we have another new District manager. Poor guy. He did call me back when I called today though. He wont last, he seems conscientious.
I had a very detailed Moose dream this morning. I don't usually have dreams that make sense for that long. I got to confront her about her lying in front of her coworkers and I talked to her injured Iraq vet husband, who actually had realized that war isnt all it's cracked up to be. Yeah, it was only a dream.
So I cant post any pictures yet, but I'm taking them. No word yet on what we are going to do with the plague computer. Seems like wiping it clean might be the only option. Nuke it from space, it's the only way to be sure.
No sign from Mrknowitall. Looks like I'm not the only one too tired to think. Nighty night .
The reason the tire went flat is probably because we have to keep the tires under-inflated to get it to fit into the garage. Our garage was not built to house a backhoe sadly, and you cant leave it outside or the vandals would trash it. So short of cutting the roof off the thing, we let the air out of the tires and it clears the I-beams with an inch to spare. Keeping the tires low is ok, until you do a lot of pushing. Things that don't want to move cause the tires stress, and probably caused the deflation. But things like this are just such a huge time waster. Then again, my shoulders do feel a bit better now.
So on to things I have been neglecting. The Bottle Bill. Here in MA, you pay an extra 5 cents on any carbonated bottled or canned drink. If you don't return the bottle, the state gets to keep your nickel. It didn't start that way but that is the way it is now. So the state is thinking of raising the bottle bill to 10 cents, and including all bottles, not just ones with carbonation (what a stupid thing that was anyway!) Well, that is great, but in my opinion it should be 25 cents. But who cares what I think, right? Covering all containers is a good start at least. I can't tell you the fortune I can make on water bottles alone that I pick up. Don't mind if they have been used as pipes do you? But of course the people who sell bottled things are against this, as I am sure the stores will be because they have to handle them. But you know, they crush them all up and put them in big bins anyway, so I don't really think it's a huge deal. They just want it to sound like it is. Of course they all want to look green when they put out adds, but heaven forbid they do anything real to change the environment.
Home prices are down. That was actually news. NO SHIT?! What a shock. Housing prices have been insanely overblown for years now, and they are crying because the prices are going down? Don't people get that half the problem with the credit crisis is the fact that people kept jumping the prices of their homes, and other people kept buying them at those outrageous prices? They were fake to begin with. So going down means they are becoming more NORMAL, and I do mean becoming, they have a long way to go. Yeah, people who bought homes when they were high (I mean the prices, but I guess it could go for the buyers) are going to loose. That's kinda too bad. They fell for this foolish market. People were buying homes for $400,000. as TEAR DOWNS. That is insane! But it looked good for a few years because for a while, it was actually working. Then the bottom fell out and they saw that the Emperor really didn't have any clothes on. So now that the prices are actually coming down, people with normal incomes might have a chance to buy, if only someone were left with the confidence to lend them some money.
Urban Decay. This was an interesting NPR report about using all the mulch that is collected from around the cities to manufacture heat and methane. I am not sure how hot the mulch temps get as the microbes munch away, I think they were talking about 150', but I'm not sure. I'm also not sure what you can do with the heat, perhaps heat water pipes and then send that water into buildings. How far would that go? Anyway, I think it's a great idea worth doing if only to heat a few buildings. If it saves $5000 to $10,000 in oil costs for one year, and provides methane to use for generating electric power, why not? As it is they have to truck it all somewhere and dispose of it, where the heat and methane just get wasted. I know from our cemetery how warm those piles are, even in the dead of winter. Break them open and watch the steam rise. I suppose the tricky part is how to make it so that you can remove the compost easily. I think it can be done fairly easily. Heck, I have an idea in my mind now.
So I poked fun of Obama, now I have to say how much I laughed when Hillary gave her account of duck and cover when she got of a plane. Which she says now was 'misspeaking' and was the result of lack of sleep. Mrs. Clinton, do I really want you answering the phone in the middle of the night with delusions of snipers? And really folks, misspeaking is not lying. Misspeaking is when you do a Freudian slip or something. Lying is when you don't tell the truth. She might have miss-remembered the day, though she seemed pretty clear about what she was talking about. I think it was a Moose Moment. And like all good Moose, she got caught.
The Ledger is now going to give some of it's customers not just a free Friday paper, but a free Monday paper as well. Sat. Only customers can now be more annoyed at the extra paper they are given that they don't want, and have to dispose of, and they can be amazed that the Ledger actually puts our a paper so freaking tiny on a weekday. Wow, a whole 8 pages! Can I believe what I have been missing? It's embarrassing really. Oh, and we have another new District manager. Poor guy. He did call me back when I called today though. He wont last, he seems conscientious.
I had a very detailed Moose dream this morning. I don't usually have dreams that make sense for that long. I got to confront her about her lying in front of her coworkers and I talked to her injured Iraq vet husband, who actually had realized that war isnt all it's cracked up to be. Yeah, it was only a dream.
So I cant post any pictures yet, but I'm taking them. No word yet on what we are going to do with the plague computer. Seems like wiping it clean might be the only option. Nuke it from space, it's the only way to be sure.
No sign from Mrknowitall. Looks like I'm not the only one too tired to think. Nighty night .