Ask any mermaid..
I was doling out some tuna for the cats today, and a white thing came out. It was a fish bone. about an inch and a quarter long. I thought "that's not good" and went to break it to see how hard it was. I know some canned fish the bones are so soft you don't even notice them. Well, you'd have noticed this if you bit it the wrong way or swallowed it. It snapped. I'm wondering if I should send it to the company. Maybe the will send me some free cat food.
All day yesterday and today I've been hearing stuff about JD Salinger. And I have to confess, Catcher in the Rye didn't make a big impression on me. I don't actually remember much about the book. I know I didn't hate it, It was no Red Pony or Member of the Wedding, or god forbid The Glass Menagerie. but I didn't love it either, or even like it I guess. I know I liked Bless the Beast and the Children, To Kill a Mockingbird, I even liked The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men. But Catcher just didn't do anything for me. Maybe I should re-read it, maybe I missed something.
It will be very interesting to see what comes out of the Salinger home, now that he's dead. I just hope he didn't selfishly leave some instructions to destroy his writing or not have it published. Once your dead, privacy is a moot point.
Insert segway here.
I was reading the obits today and I saw a young woman who had died. 43 years old. I always read the obits of younger people to see if it was a drug overdose. I'm morbid that way, and there are so many of them around here it seems. Anyway, she died of breast cancer, and she is donating her body to science for research. I think that's a very generous thing to do. Very hard to do too, but if you think you can help someone else by letting your body get examined, and you can help aspiring doctors learn their trade, then why not? We've only ever buried one person who did that, after their remains were cremated.
I was expecting the cemetery roads to be icy as hell this morning,but they were fine, just had a dusting of snow on them. The roads into work looked as if they had been painted white or still had snow on them. How do you get that much salt to spread so evenly? Strange. They must have really dumped it on too. I hope they don't cry poor mouth later on if we get more snow and they are out of salt.
Yesterday I listened to Talk of the Nation's show about the cap and trade system and carbon credits and all that. In theory, I get it, but it sounds to me so much like what we just went through with the housing bubble debacle. Its one thing to trade in carbon credits of the now, it's a whole other thing to speculate on them in the futures market. Intangible things should not be speculated on. I can see all the corruption and lying companies will be doing to make money just on the regular trading, but the speculative trading... forget it. And its so abstract.. you plant trees to offset something.. but who checks to see if all those trees grow to maturity? What if in the end, you don't use the trees the way you said you would back 30 years ago? Who do you pay back?
Oh, but Obama's going to build nuclear power plants. Sure he is. Did he happen to mention where? I also just heard that the Yucca mountain plans, the big caves made to store nuke fuel, are over and done. So what DO you do with the waste?
Give me a wind turbine any day.
All day yesterday and today I've been hearing stuff about JD Salinger. And I have to confess, Catcher in the Rye didn't make a big impression on me. I don't actually remember much about the book. I know I didn't hate it, It was no Red Pony or Member of the Wedding, or god forbid The Glass Menagerie. but I didn't love it either, or even like it I guess. I know I liked Bless the Beast and the Children, To Kill a Mockingbird, I even liked The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men. But Catcher just didn't do anything for me. Maybe I should re-read it, maybe I missed something.
It will be very interesting to see what comes out of the Salinger home, now that he's dead. I just hope he didn't selfishly leave some instructions to destroy his writing or not have it published. Once your dead, privacy is a moot point.
Insert segway here.
I was reading the obits today and I saw a young woman who had died. 43 years old. I always read the obits of younger people to see if it was a drug overdose. I'm morbid that way, and there are so many of them around here it seems. Anyway, she died of breast cancer, and she is donating her body to science for research. I think that's a very generous thing to do. Very hard to do too, but if you think you can help someone else by letting your body get examined, and you can help aspiring doctors learn their trade, then why not? We've only ever buried one person who did that, after their remains were cremated.
I was expecting the cemetery roads to be icy as hell this morning,but they were fine, just had a dusting of snow on them. The roads into work looked as if they had been painted white or still had snow on them. How do you get that much salt to spread so evenly? Strange. They must have really dumped it on too. I hope they don't cry poor mouth later on if we get more snow and they are out of salt.
Yesterday I listened to Talk of the Nation's show about the cap and trade system and carbon credits and all that. In theory, I get it, but it sounds to me so much like what we just went through with the housing bubble debacle. Its one thing to trade in carbon credits of the now, it's a whole other thing to speculate on them in the futures market. Intangible things should not be speculated on. I can see all the corruption and lying companies will be doing to make money just on the regular trading, but the speculative trading... forget it. And its so abstract.. you plant trees to offset something.. but who checks to see if all those trees grow to maturity? What if in the end, you don't use the trees the way you said you would back 30 years ago? Who do you pay back?
Oh, but Obama's going to build nuclear power plants. Sure he is. Did he happen to mention where? I also just heard that the Yucca mountain plans, the big caves made to store nuke fuel, are over and done. So what DO you do with the waste?
Give me a wind turbine any day.