Month: October 2005

With the deluge over and my lazy airplane-building weekend at a close, I have decided to get back on the grindstone tomorrow. I have plenty to do that I have been avoiding.

1. I need to write a short piece about Step 3 for my sponsor, due Tuesday.

2.I should start reading more philosophy, due on the 24th of the month.

3. I am still waiting for a book to arrive, and when it does I can start my CW2/RW homework…
but I can begin that work by trying to find a suitable subject for a paper. It has to be a controversial, hot-button, issue. I am staying away from all the really current news, like the Supreme Court, New Orleans, and whatnot. I figure that the 5 women in my class will have that covered.

Instead I am going to write about depleted uranium munitions. If you don’t know, these are armor piercing shells that, instead of being made out of the more expensive tungsten, are made out of depleted uranium, a waste by-product of nuclear power facilities. It is incredibly heavy and burns at over 600* F. Works great. Kills great. Contaminates even better. Personally I think the whole thing is vile, but I am going to take a stance, in the paper, that is pro-DU. I have my work cut out for me. A quick 15 minute Google turned up lots and lots of anti-DU reports, many from reputable sources, but damn few in support. Those that did support the stuff sited the same rationale I just used. Cheap, effective, tastes great, less filling.

I’ll keep you in the loop…

Johnnyboy

Weather.com is predicting rain for the next 6 days in my little town. Tomorrow and tomorrow night at 100%, the next few days ranging from 60% to 30%. We were in the middle of a drought, with the ponds down by measurable feet. Now the spillways are barely keeping up. Thankfully I live on a hill, so there is no danger of flooding, but still…

Sweetie Pie is going crazy. She wants to go out the worst way and thinks that if one door is rainy, the other must be clear skies. She has become so used to pooping outside that using the box is a nuisance, but thankfully she doesn’t consider the weather our fault and uses the litter properly.

My schoolwork has increased but I have 2 weeks to do my homework. In that light I am taking the weekend off and building model airplanes. I’m finishing one tomorrow. If I can get some good light I’ll take a pic and post it here. Pretty cool little airplane, actually…

I thought I had something really important to relay to the world…hmmm…oh yeah…

“Dark Shadows” is booorrring. I’m not going to watch it anymore. Campy, cult fave, weird 60’s TV, who cares. I’ve cancelled my list at NetFlix. I’ve reserved a bunch of 1940’s adventure serials instead (Terry and the Pirates, Ace Drummond) and the British series “The Prisoner”, which will be more fun. I started watching “Dark Shadows”, but the thought of having to sit through 20 discs with 10 or 12 30 minute episodes on each one was too much for me. By the end of that series I, too, would be the undead.

That was the important news. Now I’m going to make sure Sweetie has visited her litter box.

Johnnyboy