Crashing Doesn't Happen Just Once

Did you know that, when you are sick, you can start getting healthier, and then go back into the sickness if you stop following the recommended course of medication or rest prescribed for you?

The same is true of an emotional, mental sickness. A crash can happen at one moment, but take days, week, or even years to overcome. I just hope that I can make it through the next two days before I am officially allowed to crash again on Friday.

Proper Behavior: I Haz It

From time to time, I get the urge to yell obscenities, either with my mouth, or in all caps. Nearly every single time, I restrain myself, and remain silent.

For instance, right now, I want to drop a major f-bomb on all of my Facebook friends, but I won't, because I am pretty sure that it would be considered rude.

I'm totes going to bed now.

Apropos of Nothing

Have you ever had an existential crisis, but was concerned that if you told anyone, they would just dismiss it, perhaps compare it to their own, and otherwise completely fail to realize what you're talking about?

I am having that right now, during every waking moment, so I decided to blog about it.

I feel a tiny bit better now. Goodnight.

Sundays are for Football: Week Two

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Sundays Are For Football: Week One

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Whale Immersion Day

My neighbor had a "Blue Moon Party" last night, and I attended for a little while. We got to the topic of wearing all grey or all blue clothing, and for one guest, it brought up his memory of a great dream that he had. A friend of his was really into whales, and just a few nights after a conversation with this friend, he had a dream that there was a national holiday called Whale Immersion Day.

The basic premise of the day is to wear all grey or all blue, then to move and make sounds like a whale would. To do that, you move about slowly, as though you are swimming. And you communicate with other people with whale sounds, including clicks and high-pitched noises. This idea really intrigued me, and I'd like to push for an actual holiday like this. February 16th is World Whale Day, which sounds like a good candidate for the new holiday. Let's all set our calendars for February 16th, to look and act like the whales.

Hmm, I hope he participates

The Earth and Our Atmosphere

I started some hand-written notes back in January to understand and explain, in simple terms, how very thin our atmosphere is. During my recent flight from London to Chicago, I noticed that highest that the plane got was 40,000 feet, and the outside temperature at that altitude hovered around negative 50 degrees on either scale. If we were not in a sealed tube, we wouldn't be able to really breathe, and we'd freeze to death. At one point, during the flight, while standing near the lavatories, with my blanket around my shoulders, I chatted with a couple of people waiting with me, and when they remarked on how cold the plane was, I told them that with the temperature outside being so low, I was surprised that they could keep us as warm as it was.

My notes included measurements of the earth's radius from a few sources, and identified things like the radius to sea level at the poles vs the equator, and found a rough average of about 3,900 miles. I had written that this translated to about 20,900,000 feet, but I rounded it down to 20 million, so I could do the math by hand more easily. 40 thousand over 20 million is 1/500.

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And thank you for scrolling through all of that. I left some of the number markers in there to help you, in case you wanted to count. I hope that you can get the point, because I'm not going to say anything more about it, just that I'm not $#%@ing kidding, not about this.

Returns

Democracy requires an informed citizenry, so be informed: Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Large Facilities.