This is turning out to be a very busy week for me. We have some deadlines to meet at the office and I’ve had to put in some extra hours. That always drives up the stress factor. Luckily there is a long weekend ahead. We don’t have anything special planned […]
Monthly Archives: August 2003
posting
Tuesday, August 26th, 2003
Not much time to post these days. For the second day in a row the new laptop has been giving me problems. When I tried to turn it on yesterday the power light came on but it never booted up. I called Dell Support and they walked me through a procedure that […]
sensible lawn care
Sunday, August 24th, 2003
There is some sensible lawn care advice described over at Zanthan Gardens. I have mixed feelings about lawns myself. On the one hand they are unnatural and wasteful of resources. But I have a wide expanse of St Augustine across the front and I plan to keep it. Grass […]
masked and anonymous
Sunday, August 24th, 2003
We went to see Masked and Anonymous, the Bob Dylan movie. Yes, I am still a fan of his after all these years. There was a time when I thought the wisdom of the ages were hidden in rock lyrics and more so in Dylan’s than any of the […]
eviscerating the clean air act
Saturday, August 23rd, 2003
The Bush administration is about to change the rules of the Clean Air Act to allow thousands of older industrial plants to upgrade without having to install new air pollution equipment.
Current rules require installation of pollution control equipment whenever plant owners undertake anything more than “routine maintenance.” The new rule will […]