Last night, I pulled up the local news website to check the weather and came across a news article that our state government is considering a move to let the gas companies come in and start fracking. Fracking stands for “hydraulic fracturing” and is a process to extract fossil fuels from beneath the earth. For… Continue Reading
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Category Archives: Rants
Are We Prepared?
It’s been quite a while since I’ve posted to this blog. One reason is that I’ve been pretty busy, but another reason is that I’m still not happy with the blog’s overall direction. I love web stuff, so I thought if I focused most of my blogging into that niche and built upon it, the… Continue Reading
Why I dislike shopping at Walmart
I’m not really very fond of shopping at big box stores as they are made up of too much of just too much, but then again I’m not a big fan of shopping in general. I prefer doing most of my shopping online. Unfortunately, physically going shopping seems like a necessary evil when it comes… Continue Reading
Paper newspapers…ugh!
Yesterday, I received email notification that my subscription to The Wall Street Journal would be running out soon and that I’d best renew now to make sure I received the “same low price” when continuing the subscription. Subscription running out soon? Oh joy! I could feel my heart beating with delight even though the school… Continue Reading
The horror that was last week
Last week was a monster of a week. My plan is to just have it stricken from the record books as having never existed. First, it rained practically all week, so I was miserably tired and just could not stay awake…at all. I was a walking zombie, except much less fun than in a video… Continue Reading