The Individual blog, No. 96 for the week starting July 28, 2008.
Monday
To Every Season, Turn, Turn, Turn
Tuesday
No Bike or Truck to Get Around
Thinking About Cities, Other Places in the Country
Working on RSS Streams for the Blog
Thursday
Boondocks is about farms, rural life, and power toys.
Energy looks at high energy prices and our future.
Enviroman looks at man and the environment.
Hayseeds looks at politics and life in our nation.
Outblog is all about my outdoor experiences.
Transit looks at the changing ways we get around.
Truck gives you stories and trips in my Ford Ranger.
To Every Season, Turn, Turn, Turn. The Bethlehem Neighboors for Peace Vigil and subsequent discussion was a lot fun of tonight. The counter protesters continue, and there was a lot of discussion on how we should conduct ourselves.
Nice weather today, although a bit sticky. Rode my bike to work, and took the Route 18 bus part of the way back to the peace vigil. I admit I am just a lazy slob, who didn't feel like riding more then 15 miles today on my bike now. Those little trips really add up on the bike.
I don't have my truck right now, as I ripped a brake line out the other night in the backfield behind my parents house in my drunken stupidity. I need to get that fixed. What an f-ing pain in the butt.
I'm not at all sure why I spent so much time blogging today. It must be because I have an axe to grind over two of my favorite pet issues—the tax cap, and the burn barrel ban. At least my favorite pet issues nowadays.
Turn, Turn, Turn - The Byrds P'Link
No Bike or Truck to Get Around. I basically have no set of wheels to get around, now that my bike has a flat tire. What a real pain in the butt. I've spent an awful lot of time today walking—up to the Phil Steck HQ to make some calls, then back home a mile from the bus stop, then down to the library.
I guess it's good for my health, not that exactly biking is bad otherwise. Sometimes life sucks, but I will get my bike fixed tommorow. I will have to get a manual pump and some new tubes from Walmart or maybe the Delmar bike store tomorrow. My manual pump is broken, and I have been using my truck one with questionable results.
Warm night out there, but not so bad. P'Link
Thinking About Cities, Other Places in the Country. Walking down Central Avenue, you see such a different city then you see in a car or a bicycle. It's amazing how much life that part of the community has left in it, even if the culture is so much different from the world that I know.
The article on recycling in Houston also got me thinking. I am well aware how little material in our country is actually recycled, much like I'm also aware of how much electricity comes from dirty old coal plants. Still at the same time, to think so much potentially useful material is being tossed and landfilled, without thought, is shocking.
Maybe Houston is a bit worst then New York State when it comes to recycling. But we aren't all that great either.
I guess their culture is so different then ours, in unimaginable ways. We our taught all human beings are alike, but that's farther then the truth. The human species probably is more different then alike. I can't imagine what life must be in Texas—much less in Chauttegay, NY or anywhere else that I have never grown up in besides Westerlo, and maybe to a much more limited extent Delmar and Albany.
I am just an Eastern Establishment Liberal, looking down at their culture, for being different then ours.
Bob Dylan's Dream - Peter, Paul, Mary P'Link
Working on RSS Streams for the Blog. I've had them for a while, but I'm trying to make them much more extensive and easier to link. I'm not sure if I like the approach with all the icons, or I will re-think the feed ideas more. P'Link
Mediocre. There is a rule in life that basically says:
Life is something where you constantly dump more money in things that soon enough will be trash. If you haven't figured it out yet, everything that stores sell is trash (or manure as the case may be)—just a few minutes, months, weeks, hours, or years.
That nice pickup truck you see at the auto lot will be a rust bucket and break down eventually. That's guaranteed. You'll have a flat tire on you bike, and the tire will pop.
Maybe I'm just a cynic, but there sure is some real truth in all of that. P'Link
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