What’s the Mission?
We don’t have MSNBC, so I hadn’t see this clip from The Rachel Maddow Show before. If you haven’t watched it, you should. But basically, she shows, through newscast clips from 1979, that it’s all happened before. The IXTOC well blew out June 3, 1979, due to a failure in the blowout preventer. They couldn’t [...]
It’s been a cold, rainy May, so gardening has been difficult, but we’re finally eating lettuce from the garden! Other plants are doing the things they are supposed to do, and we’ve planted a few more seeds and a tomato plant. So here are the peas. I planted them AGES ago, at the end of [...]
Oh, hi! I’m back! It’s been a hectic few weeks, what with softball practice, softball games, a concert, birthday parties, user group meetings, etc. It’s all good. Just a very busy good. And when we’re very busy, we’re not always behaving in a frugal way. Oh, we haven’t been out buying flat-screen TVs and designer [...]
The average price per gallon of gasoline in the United States is now $2.901; that’s almost double what it was in 2003 (Wolfram|Alpha, 5/1/2010). The average price per kilowatt hour for electricity in the United States in January 2010 was 10.54 cents. That’s up from 8.2 cents per kilowatt hour in 2003 (U.S. Energy Information [...]
