I’ve been lurking around my own blog lately, wondering what happened? We were so close. Then school came between us and things were never the same.
Truth be told, I think I have my blog to thank for providing a forum from which my true path was revealed.
While writing on (is it “in” or “on”?) a blog may encompass relevant course work, it is still another thing “to do” that takes away from the doing of other things. When school work inundated my life, I thought I could keep it cohesive. Then the prospect of shifting my career crept onto the scene, the garden expanded, community projects developed and something had to go. It wasn’t going to be my sleep.
The blog will stay for now and I may even pick it up on occasion. For the curious, I’ll be spending some of my free time contributing to or maintaining these other sites:
I know this has nothing to do with sustainability, though it made me chuckle. Oh, how the blog has a life of it’s own and if one blogs or reads blogs long enough, there seems to be a pattern that evolves much like the diagram below, either on ones own blog or another that is being followed.
As this chapter comes to a close and another chapter starts, I found my self sitting in the audience at my daughter’s high school on the Night of Artist Expression thinking to myself, this will be the last time we do this with J. I’ve found myself saying that a lot at just about every school function; the band parent meetings, the football half-time shows (it wasn’t about the football), Fall band competitions, band fundraisers, the holiday band concert, and the list goes on. Soon there will be other events to attend, not relating to high school. Until then, I thought I’d share a snippet from the show. It really is a snippet at 27 seconds and composed while jostling the cell phone about in the dark so as to obscure everything in sight. None the less, she was thrilled to see I had uploaded it to YouTube.
You are invited to the second meeting of a new social gathering of area residents interested in discussing and promoting a lifestyle generally called ….Green.
For those of you who follow the Sustaining SoWal blog (all 2 of you), I’ve just added another post on, you guessed it, my ecological footprint. http://sustainingsowal.wordpress.com/
Remember the post I did on Starbucks? I mentioned that we have 7 Starbucks in a 12 mile radius, well, 3 more have opened since. If I expand the radius to 20 miles, I can count 2 more, one at each of the new Targets. That’s 12 or 0.6 Starbucks per mile or 1.2 Starbucks per 2 miles. However you look at it, its a lot of Starbucks concentrated in one area. I won’t speculate why at the moment, just thought it odd, redundant, maybe even a bit excessive. Don’t you think?
Because I’m a total blogger geek that actually reads WordPress’s latest news, I’m writing a post about what I would do with an additional 10 GB of space for uploading files. As per their rules, you have to write a blog about it and ping back to their post. The most creative idea wins the 10 GB free.
So my idea (it’s not that creative BTW - just what I would do) is to upload all my current clients drawings in DWF files so they could review the progress of their drawings, like once a week. Of course I’d have to create a private blog just for them. Since DWF’s can’t be uploaded here, I’d probably have to resort to PDF’s. Oh, but I could create oodles of them since I have several years of projects.
As a business person, I can certainly appreciate the growth that Starbucks has enjoyed over the years. Sure, I’d prefer (provided I was fresh out of beans for my french press) to frequent a locally owned and operated coffee shop for my morning fix. Who wouldn’t? Unfortunately, this is not always the easiest option. Where I live I can count 7 Starbucks within a 12 mile radius. 7!! One would think I lived in a fairly urban setting, not so. It’s pretty rural around here with no public transportation in sight. Like I said, I drink my coffee at home for the most part, though I do like to carry my own mug in case I want to pop in one of the local coffee shops (including Fourbucks, I mean, Starbucks) and have a coffee.
My question to Starbucks is this: If I purchase my own reuseable mug to help reduce the use of paper cups, what is the point of this exercise if the staff still makes my cafe latte in a paper cup, then pours it in my mug, then throws the cup away? Could someone from one of the locally owned coffee shops, please teach the Starbucks staff how to make a 12 oz. cafe latte without the aid of the paper cup?
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