Apparently I had Thunderbird pretty well trained on my old computer, because I am seeing a ton of spam now. I get about 10 junk mails for every real one. I am teaching this machine what to throw out now. I am not interested in: viagra, cialis, dating websites, market research, or a Shelby Mustang. Nor do I care overly much about the lottery, or your offer to let me help settle your bazillion dollar estate before you die of some disease that I have never heard of. I also don’t care to sign up for your credit cards. You can quit emailing me anytime now. Please.

Ya’ll know me, so I have to be honest and say right up front that I don’t buy into this gloom and doom, we’re gonna cook ourselves to death global warming stuff. I do however think that when we were told to take dominion over the earth and subdue it, that also carried a responsibility to use the resources we’ve been given wisely. There’s no need to waste the gifts we’ve been given.

So, yes, I do sometimes read some stuff about global warming, because I find that there are some good common sense things we can do to leave a smaller footprint on the earth, and I am all for that. Today, I read this list of 20 ways to lower your carbon footprint.

I was glad to see that we are already doing quite a few of these things. For instance, the number one item on the list is setting your hot water heater to 120 degrees. We do that, and have done it anytime we have control of the hot water heater because of the children. It’s a safety issue for us, because water hotter than that can result in severe burns before you can jerk your hand out of the water stream.

We also planted trees recently, which is number 6 on the list. Now, I freely admit the world environment was not at the fore-front of my mind when I did that. I was thinking about my own inside environment, and my cooling bill. See, I strategically planted those trees so that they would shade the side of my house that gets abominably HOT every afternoon in the summer.

There are several other things on the list that we are doing as well, because they either fit my pocketbook NOW, or promise to help it LATER. It’s apparent that my reasons for doing things the way I do are pretty self-serving, isn’t it? But if you want to give me credit for helping the environment, I’ll take it.

If you visit this blog today, and it is an ugly mess, please don’t write me off, just go look at some vacation rentals and come back later. I need to do some work on the theme, and things are liable to get a bit jumbled at times.

I survived the day. I did not pick up the living room. Maybe tomorrow will be better. It can’t be much worse.

I’m looking for a wordpress theme centered around movies, preferably classic/b&w. I’ve looked in the more well known places and can’t find what I am looking for. I can’t make it myself, because I am a hacker, not a coder. Do I look like I went to Collins College to you? No, I didn’t think so. If you see one that you think looks interesting, can you drop me a comment please?

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I have to confess, as often as I have complained here about my redneck neighbor that I now look like one too. I even have the redneck yard markers to prove it. These markers of mine are quite different from the markers some folks have.

We have one of those sectional sofas, and right after my cuz brought us the furniture he didn’t need anymore, one of the kids got hurt on the middle part of that sofa. The metal piece in it had gotten banged and was sticking up through the fabric at a wicked angle, and DD#4 sliced her arm on it. It went out in the yard as soon as we got her cleaned up and calmed down. The chair was joined by the leaky freezer the next week (upside down of course). Now, there they sit, waiting for the same cousin to have time to come in his pick-up and run them to the dump for us.

You know what else is out there? Daddy’s ladder. He had a day off right after the big windstorm, and we needed to put some siding back up that had blown off, so he brought the ladder for us to use. I can’t take it back to him, because I don’t have a ladder rack, and he hasn’t had another day off to come get it. Ya’ll, it’s bad out there in my yard right now.

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If you’ve stuck with me this long, I appreciate it. If your eyes have glazed over, I understand that, too. As for me, my headache is worse, and I feel like I need a couple of these hangover cures, only I haven’t had anything to drink. Well, except the previously discussed tea.

Seriously, I appreciate your patience, and I’ll try to avoid getting myself jammed up like this again. I hope you at least giggled a couple of times 🙂 Now I get to go do this on another blog.

I have a boatload of business to take care of. I apologize in advance if you read this blog via feed. Ya’ll know that I do write blog posts for compensation, and I m so behind on my work right now that it isn’t even funny. Since I do get paid to blog, I think I need to go ahead and get busy with it.