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September 22, 2005 -
It's
been a busy weekend- Friday I went to the Lawrence Humane
Society's auction with Christie, Mary Lou, Nancy &
Teresa. It was a great night- Christie makes any outing
fun though, she had a story (which I cannot repeat)
that made everyone laugh themselves to tears nearly.
The auction went well too, and I cannot fathom a guess
of how much they made. I didn't get home until fairly
late, and Saturday I went to work; it was a fairly average
day, and I got one of my big projects done. After work
Teresa and I went shopping. I got some dress socks and
a polo shirt. It started to rain a bit, but we went
out to eat at Tump Tim Thai- and after that it poured
like CRAZY!! It was somewhat hard to see and Teresa
was driving and she came to a bit of a low spot in the
road on Urish that was flooded... Coming home it got
really bad, traffic was going at 30 miles per hour a
lot of the way- and even that was a little scary. It
continued to rain all night, and about 3am lightening
struck somewhere very close to the house, it set one
of the fire alarms off, and our phones are our... and
the doorbell goes off at random times. They said on
the news that Jackson County got the most rain, 15 inches
in the south, I'm not really sure what we got here in
town as our rain gauge topped out at five inches.
Today
was the Pet Fair for the Heart of Jackson Humane Society,
it really contrasts with what the Lawrence Humane Society
put on, but it went pretty well. Turn out was a lot
lower this year due to all the flooding, but I think
they raised a few dollars. I ran a booth for signing
people up to volunteer, and I also sold a few items
too. At the end there was a raffle and I won a new bike.
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September 22, 2005 -
It
was a good weekend; Saturday Bob and I went to KC to
see Eunjoo and Troy. We went out to eat at a Chinese
restaurant, and then most of the time I spent making
Eunjoo's laptop happy. We also watched videos of Korean
toddlers dancing and singing- Troy becomes moody with
other programming, but all-in-all seems to be a very
happy baby.
For
the last few years a massive building project has been
underway in the small Middle-East country of Dubai.
As their oil deposits are beginning to be depleted they've
looked for new ways to keep their nation thriving, and
tourism is their leading focus. This satellite view
of their coastline shows the scale of the changes being
made, the river, which is also man-made is a hundred
miles long. The most challenging part of their projects
is creating stable land in the sea, they've designed
massive palm trees, each containing resort hotels &
hundreds of luxury homes. There is also a series of
hundreds of islands that make up a map of the globe.
Before the projects Dubai had a coastline of 44 miles...
it now stretches to 932.
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September 22, 2005 -
I
started walking dogs more now, I ponder I will try to
do it every morning that I do not work the entire day...
not counting weekend, since they have other people to
walk then. Mom said Saturday they're having a bake sale,
and they have a sponsor that will double all sales and
donations, so I 'll make a contribution to that.
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September 19, 2005 -
I
walked dogs in the morning- I think Mom and Betty are
really getting weary of running the shelter everyday
with very little help. It takes all their time, and
with the Pet Fair coming up, the planning of which also
takes a major effort, they aren't getting much rest.
With all their time being taken up caring for the dogs,
they don't really have time for all the fund raising
projects like they use to... and less money coming in,
with much greater expenses is never a good combination.
I
worked on combining an old log I kept years ago into
my blog- I have much editing left to do though, as my
blog is more my public thoughts, and I started my log
because my last job was so crazy, and I thought it would
be good to vent my frustrations... I will probably upload
the files next weekend.
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September 18, 2005 -
Why
can I not sleep? I slept six hours last night and then
last night I went to bed and just couldn't sleep...
(I think I'll leave that last sentence unedited as it
demonstrated how one becomes impaired when they don't
sleep). As it is 5am "last night" is a fuzzy
word, as it still seems like it is night... so the first
last night was to represent the night of the 16th, and
the second one is for the night that just passed.
Tachyon
seems to be having trouble recognizing all its drives...
It makes a strange muted meep and doesn't detect the
storage drive, and sometimes won't boot with it... I
backed up everything on the drive, but in Chroniton
is seems quite happy. I ordered a 250 GB drive mid-week,
so I should get it probably Monday, so I think that
will bump me up to 850 GB total. While I was switching
drives about I had four on my desk, so I ponder I should
name them and keep track of what's on them a wee bit
better... cause in my sleepy haze I pondered; "Now
which was I going to put in Choniton?"
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September 17, 2005 -
It
was busy today at work, and after work I went shopping
with Teresa for a bit. I got a new wallet, shoes, candy
to send to my host family, and a dress shirt & tie.
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September 16, 2005 -
Worked
all day today and then enjoyed Sci-fi Friday. I work
all day tomorrow too, so this will be short as I must
sleep.
What
nation has the largest movie industry? For several years
running the answer has been India, both in the number
of movies produced, and the number of tickets sold.
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September 15, 2005 -
No
karate tonight, yippy!
I
watched a fascinating program last night on sugar...
It was interesting because I did not know that they
created sugar more often from beets than from cane,
because sugar beats grow in a wider range of climates...
What was most interesting was that in the 1970's when
the world was in the fuel crisis Brazil completely re
engineered their economy. At the time they were importing
80% of their oil from foreign sources and it cost an
average of $40 to fill up their gas tanks, but today
they only import 12% of the oil they use, and it only
costs an average of $20 to fill their tanks.... The
reason: sugar. Sugar is bad in your gas tank... but
sugar beets fermented into ethanol provides greater
horsepower than gas created from oil. I was amazed that
the Brazilian system was so well engineered compared
to ours. ....If 80% of what are cars used could be grown
by farmers here rather than purchased from overseas.
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September 12, 2005 -
Today
I walked dogs, compressed a lot of TV programs I've
saved on my computer, and printed a couple things for
my portfolio.
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September 11, 2005 -
Today
is the fourth anniversary of 9/11, and the thirty second
of my parents' wedding. There have been a lot of shows
on TV about various aspects of 9/11, timelines of what
and how things happened, history of the WTC, terrorism...
on one of the tabloid news shows on in the afternoon
they had a party planner on, and asked her the question
if it was appropriate to have any type of party on 9/11...
and they pondered that the day should be observed without
celebrations- even if it is a child's birthday. I ponder
what happened to not allowing the terrorists to change
the way we live.
Yesterday
I cleaned out the fish pond and mowed the lawn, perhaps
today I'll try to clean out my aquarium.
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September 9, 2005 -
Today
is Jeffrey Combs's Birthday... He's one of my most favorite
Trek actors, and he has played a plethora of characters,
most notably: Weyoun, Shran, and Liquidator Brunt. I
hope for the next series he is cast in a central role.
Another
day of dog walking- I was the only walker today, so
it took nearly three hours to walk all the dogs... I
was really dragging by the time it was over.
I
have today off due to my new schedule... hopefully I'll
be able to catch up on a few projects this weekend.
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September 8, 2005 -
I
got up today at six and went to walk dogs at the humane
society... It rained on a little on me, but it went
rather quickly... I ran with some of them to speed things
up- they love that though, cause a few of them will
choke themselves by pulling if you just walk.
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September 7, 2005 -
I
had a busy weekend, I worked Saturday, and then Sunday
and Monday Teresa and I painted at Donna's house. Donna
and Mike sure know how to feed a paint crew too- They
totally stuffed us to the point of bursting. We painted
the exterior of their house, and with their help we
got it all pretty much done in the two days.
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September 2, 2005 -
Hurricane
Katrina; it's been three days now since it hit the Gulf
Coast and the situation in New Orleans seems to get
worse and worse. Yesterday “looting” was
something that most people would have viewed as criminal,
but it’s beginning to become the only way for
survivors to get food and water. I do blame Bush for
a degree of how poorly the situation is being managed-
I wonder why food and water are not just being air-dropped
by parachute into New Orleans… I also blame the
White House for publicly stating that the US was “not
requesting international aid, though if it was offered
we would not reject it.” …they don’t
have to openly request it, but why not be more welcoming
of it? If I blame Bush, I also must blame the Governors-
because they are equally capable of ordering an air-drop…
and of course many of the people are to blame, those
that had the ability to leave but did not. Those that
now shoot at helicopters and limit what can be done
to help, and those that started to loot early on because
they could- and not because they needed to.
A
new tropical storm has gained enough strength to be
designated Lee in the alphabetical progression in the
Atlantic- though it's still too early to tell where
it will go, with the water temps in the Gulf of Mexico
being so hot, any storm that ends up there will be just
as bad as Katrina.
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September 1, 2005 -
8am,
and it's been a semi-productive day so far... I worked
some on the Pet Fair T-Shirt for the Humane Society.
Marty always draws the cartoon for the design, and I
clean it up and streamline it into vector artwork for
the T-shirt. This year it was much more complex and
a bit difficult... and time consuming. I also edited
the image of Teresa and Rom's baby a wee bit. It was
inspired 
by
a thing Conan O'Brien always does where they combine
two people to see what their offspring will look like....
This was Teresa's nephew, and Nog from Star Trek. The
reason I bring it back up now was because there is a
contest at work for people to submit the best toddler
photo, and Lin pondered it would be nice to enter.
I
also started to practice my Sumi-e (Japanese Calligraphy).
It's quite different from Western calligraphy, which
uses a flat quill pen that is always held at the same
angle- With Sumi-e you use a brush, and the angle changes
with the stroke. I'll try to practice regularly, and
hopefully I'll be happy enough with something that I'll
post it here.
I
got my first $100 Google check for the ads in my blog;
I use to really dislike ads, but now that I get the
money from them they seem much more tolerable.. and
they track page views too.
Tonight
is Dennis' going away party, he rented from Brent for
a number of months, and he decided he would take a job
working for Nick (who is Brent's Karate Sensei) in Texas.
Last night I went over and showed him how to make slide
shows and put a new anti-virus program on his computer.
