Wow, work has been crazy. Could NOT sleep Thursday night and had to be at the grocery store at 8:00 a.m. on Friday to pick up a catering order for a groundbreaking ceremony at 10:00 that morning. Then a full day of work after that. Boy, PR is glamorous! The groundbreaking ceremony went off without a hitch although we didn't get all the media coverage anyone might have wanted.


Why I listen to books on tape instead of the radio in my car

So, to completely change the subject without any transition at all, I remembered the other day why I don't listen to Public Radio much. They were interviewing some woman, a singer who had seen Al Gore's PowerPoint presentation on global warming. She went on and on about how upset she was - she couldn't sleep for simply DAYS afterwards. Her particular form of self-torture was thinking about what coal-fired energy must do to the environment. Then she decided she must do something about this, and ever since she decided to be part of the solution, she has been serenely at peace.


What has she done to protect the globe from the depredations of man? Does she use only fluorescent light bulbs (properly disposed of when burned out, of course) and keep her thermostat at 80 degrees in summer time and 65 in the winter? Does she keep lights on only in the room she is using at the time? Does she protest at strip mines? Does she use solar? Does she contribute to research into safe nuclear energy?


No. What this person does (at least according to her interview on public radio) is to sing songs about coal mining.


Gee, thanks.