Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Blue Blockers
We're staying here for Thanksgiving. But we still haven't decided what to do about Christmas. Board the cats here. Take the cats with us to Birmingham and keep them at the grandparents house. Then take them to Florida and board them. It might just be easier to board them here and save them the endless hours of highway. But boarding is expensive. Bleh, I don't know.
We have a health insurance committee meeting at 10 am. But of the 5 people on the committee, 2 have said they can't make it. Fine, we're still having it.
Not a whole lot to say. My mind has been occupied recently, with what I don't know, but no worthwhile posts have been created in there. But there is always the past.
I don't really know how it started, but my friends and I started running around the neighborhood naked. We would strip to shoes, socks and boxers once outside, stash our clothes in one of our cars, and then venture out into the neighborhood. Picture any suburban community at 10:30pm-1am and you have the general setting. Mostly it was just the rush of doing something stupid and illegal but the sensation of air rushing over your naughty bits was so incredible. Maybe it started out as stupid suburban rebellion but you couldn't deny the fact that your twig and berries getting some much needed air was part of it too.
So naturally, even though we took the precaution of running at night, the occasional car or other person would happen upon our naked brigade. But that's why the Creator/Big Bang made bushes. For naked adolescents to hide behind. Thankfully, no cars ever stopped and no one ever searched the bushes at night. But we always did wonder what would happen if someone did. I always imagine it would go something like this.
Nudie: Oh shit! Be quiet! Someone's coming!
Yuppie: That was weird. I thought I saw something run over here.
Nudie: Phew, I don't think he has a flashlight.
Yuppie: Oh, here's my flashlight.
Nudie: Crap.
Yuppie: WTF?!?!?! WHAT ARE YOU DOING!
Nudie: Nothing. Aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh!
And the best part of running nude, you get to moon whoever catches you as you run away. Good times.
So next time you're alone and feeling adventurous, get naked and go for a jog. Well, maybe some people should keep their bra on, I hear the bouncing hurts.
Now for a few "Forest" facts:
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization, FAO, said forests covered nearly 4 billion hectares, some 30 percent of the world's land, with 10 countries accounting for two-thirds of all forest area -- Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, the Democratic Republic of Congo, India, Indonesia, Peru, Russia and the United States.
South America suffered the largest net loss of forests between 2000 and 2005 -- around 4.3 million hectares per year -- followed by Africa, which lost 4 million hectares annually.
By contrast, forest area grew in Europe, although at a slower rate than in the 1990s, while Asia moved from a net loss of some 800,000 hectares a year to a net gain of 1 million a year -- thanks mainly to large scale planting in China.
All from this CNN article: U.N.: World forest loss still alarming
We have a health insurance committee meeting at 10 am. But of the 5 people on the committee, 2 have said they can't make it. Fine, we're still having it.
Not a whole lot to say. My mind has been occupied recently, with what I don't know, but no worthwhile posts have been created in there. But there is always the past.
I don't really know how it started, but my friends and I started running around the neighborhood naked. We would strip to shoes, socks and boxers once outside, stash our clothes in one of our cars, and then venture out into the neighborhood. Picture any suburban community at 10:30pm-1am and you have the general setting. Mostly it was just the rush of doing something stupid and illegal but the sensation of air rushing over your naughty bits was so incredible. Maybe it started out as stupid suburban rebellion but you couldn't deny the fact that your twig and berries getting some much needed air was part of it too.
So naturally, even though we took the precaution of running at night, the occasional car or other person would happen upon our naked brigade. But that's why the Creator/Big Bang made bushes. For naked adolescents to hide behind. Thankfully, no cars ever stopped and no one ever searched the bushes at night. But we always did wonder what would happen if someone did. I always imagine it would go something like this.
Nudie: Oh shit! Be quiet! Someone's coming!
Yuppie: That was weird. I thought I saw something run over here.
Nudie: Phew, I don't think he has a flashlight.
Yuppie: Oh, here's my flashlight.
Nudie: Crap.
Yuppie: WTF?!?!?! WHAT ARE YOU DOING!
Nudie: Nothing. Aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh!
And the best part of running nude, you get to moon whoever catches you as you run away. Good times.
So next time you're alone and feeling adventurous, get naked and go for a jog. Well, maybe some people should keep their bra on, I hear the bouncing hurts.
Now for a few "Forest" facts:
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization, FAO, said forests covered nearly 4 billion hectares, some 30 percent of the world's land, with 10 countries accounting for two-thirds of all forest area -- Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, the Democratic Republic of Congo, India, Indonesia, Peru, Russia and the United States.
South America suffered the largest net loss of forests between 2000 and 2005 -- around 4.3 million hectares per year -- followed by Africa, which lost 4 million hectares annually.
By contrast, forest area grew in Europe, although at a slower rate than in the 1990s, while Asia moved from a net loss of some 800,000 hectares a year to a net gain of 1 million a year -- thanks mainly to large scale planting in China.
All from this CNN article: U.N.: World forest loss still alarming
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