There is a mutt that lives at the plant where I work. Nobody pays much attention to her and she is fed irregularly.
Pregnant (probably), with three good legs and one that kinda tags along. She's sort of a brindle hound, I guess, and she has a nice disposition.
The boss was going to have her put down, for reasons I won't go into, but I told him that I would take her home with me next week.
Can you say idiot?
You just can't win!
It turns out that in the Pacific N.W. there are some pretty good sized windfarms being developed in the Columbia river basin. When they are operational, and the wind speed suddenly picks up, the increase in power production forces the hydroelectric dams to quickly shed their load by dumping a LOT of water through the gates.
This introduces a big ol' pile of Nitrogen into the waters, which kill the salmon, because they no likee.
There are coal fired plants that could shed power, but they are for profit enterprises, and don't really want to have to do that.
Huh huh huh!
The problem with coal-fired plants is that they take longer to get offline... can't just shut them down. In Texas, Ercot regulates the power being put onto the grid. Lately, at certain times of the night, the price for West Texas power has been negative, meaning that if you put power from your windmill onto the grid it'll cost you.
They should not allow the wind power onto the grid unless it's needed. They have to take all environmental concerns into account. Actually, I presume that they will in the future, having discovered this problem.
Back from my colonoscopy, and whatever the procedure is called when they go down through your mouth-throat to look at your stomach and small intestine.
Like everybody says, the preparation day is worse than the actual procedure.
This is probably because you are unconscious!
They snipped off a couple of polyps, and said that they'd get back to me when the lab analysis came back, but didn't sound too concerned.
Most of everything else looked good, besides some evidence of acid reflux. No biggie with some otc help.
When I woke up, he told me that I could eat anything I wanted to.
I asked him if I could have a pizza! But he said "No." (this is one of my celiac doc's). Bummer. So I had a nice salad at Chic-fil-a. I just pretended that the purple stuff in it was pepperoni.
I checked out the Honda motorcycle website yesterday -- they've dropped the 1100 cruisers! (Also the VLX 600.) Nothing but 750 Shadows and the VTX 1300 and 1800.
The alarm clock woke me this morning.
I remember that I was dreaming and awoke dissapointed by not having reached a conclusion on whatever it was that I was dreaming about.
I wish that I had taken a moment to reflect on the dream while it was still fresh in my mind. As it stands now, four hours after rising, I can't remember any of it.
Have a good day! Say your prayers and do the right thing. Life goes on during good days and bad, and it doesn't pay to sweat the small stuff.
Oh, and in an unrelated vein, scientists have figured out how to clone dead mice.
I can see it now! They will dig up Ghandi, Muhmud, Stalin. Scrape blood off of holy relics, and come up with other inventive ways of getting tissues from people long gone. Then grow some new saviors (who will be completely clueless) and ask them for the answer to life, the universe, and everything else! (Which, by the way, is 42.)
LOL...I share your premonition...sounds exactly like what people will try to do...I've had several discussions with a family member on whether a cloned person would have a soul! Seriously! She didn't think they would! I tried to explain that it would be no different than an identical twin...
Our Father is an awesome God! He is THE only God. I thank Him for my parents. I thank Him for my children (concieved the old fashioned way), I thank Him for rest and dreams, aND I SING PRAISE THAT THE POLLS ARE TO CLOSE VERY SOON THIS EVENING!
One of the greatest Halloween pranks I have ever heard of is from a guy I used to work with.
He spent a day gathering Spanish Moss out of trees. Then he put it on some clothes. When night came, he laid down in the ditch, and then sat up and groaned when trick or treaters passed by!
He said that it was priceless! The only drawback was that he was infested by chiggers from doing it!
Around here, you would probably end up being shot!!
No, I didn't mention the 3rd party candidates. I actually had a comment in my post about that to begin with and took it out. Feel free to post an article on the candidate of your choice. :-)
I've been having to read up on the parties lately and didn't realize how little I agreed with the Libertarians...I'm still a republican at heart...I do like parties steared toward God more, but some can get kinda weird...
