Going to Nepal

Joe's wild, zany adventures to Nepal and at home.

26 March 2008

Global Warning

In the wake of today's revelation on the massive sheet of ice that detached it's self from Antarctica, I thought I'd weigh in with my opinion of Global Warming. It's happening. The world is getting warmer due to the emission of green house gasses by the human race (and to a lesser extent animals. Let's not forget the methane expelled by millions of stock animals. That we eat. Yummy lamb.) The water running off from glaciers is accelerating the melting of glaciers in two different ways, thus causing sea levels to rise at an even faster pace. The ice on Greenland could cause sea levels to rise by up to 10ft over the next few hundred years. Polar bears are losing habitat at an alarming rate. We've heard all the horrible news. And hot damn is it scary. I'm a wilderness lover, and the loss of the habitats to wild animals is also a loss to me as a place to visit. It will depress me the day that I backpack through the desert of the Sierra Nevada.
HOWEVER. Mother Nature will be the last to laugh. She has historically proved that she has no compunction about flushing everything and everybody. So does this mean we shouldn't worry about it and keep right on keeping on? Almost. By doing what we can to preserve our environment we essentially are buying time for....A miracle? Even cutting emission at this point, from what I've read, it's seems that the problem is pretty advanced, that we are more or less going to have to suffer the consequences of the actions of our ancestors and ourselves. Hopefully this lesson will be learned by future generations and they will continue to carry the torch of renewable resources, clean burning cars, responsible land stewardship, and environmental policies that, as the Great Law of the Iroquois states "In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations.".

20 March 2008

Work Out!!

Met up with CB today for a track workout. We did a warm up, then the "corners" drill. Run the edge of the pitch, exercise at the corners. Abs here, push-ups there, core here, pull-ups there. It's been a while since we worked out. I'll be sore tomorrow. It was nice to catch up with him. I hadn't seen him in several months. Seems to be how I've been with a few to many of friends. I'm working on it.

The early part of my afternoon was not spent climbing. It was, instead, spent cutting back ivy and reclaiming the backyard at the triplex. Runt and I spent two hours hacking away at the shrubbery. We found the rock walls under the ivy, the metal fence hidden away behind the bushes, the prickly bush at the bottom of the backyard. That one wasn't so fun. All told we filled the green waste bin, and NINE large garage bags, which we promptly dumped in the 'rents driveway. We entertained ourselves with a discussion about who was going to have an allergic reaction first. I think she won. I imagine her husband isn't going to be as excited about my work with the hedge trimmer as I was. Oh well, I had fun and hanging with the sis always rocks.

Need to shower and hit the rack for some sleep.

13 March 2008

Wow, so Pushy

Fine then. A juicy tid bit. One of my, eh, more recent posts was a Top Ten of sorts and my number 10 was that I wasn't sure I'd ever fall in love again. Of course realisticly I knew it was unlikely that I wouldn't, but at that point ( a year ago ) it had been four years since I had met anyone who really made me feel alive. My dating life was going well enough, but in January of last year I had been seeing someone who played a few to many games and really wasn't clear with me about what she was looking for, so I decided to go on a hiatus. For the remainder of February through the begining of May. Three and a half months. Good, no more worries about the ladies. No dates, no drunk dialing, just me. However, shortly there after I had the good fortune to join a indoor soccer team. At our first team meeting I was talking with my friend PK, when two ladies who were on our team walked in. Immediately I asked him what their stories were. I got the back ground on both of them and asked more questions about one, Susan. The season began, and was certainly more attracted to her as time progressed, but my darn hiatus kept me from taking the iniative. I had told my roommates, and almost anyone that would listen, that I was on hiatus, BUT if she asked me out, then all bets were off. Well she asked me out and on April 7 last year, and our first date was on April 14 and is still going on. So I'll let you know how it goes when our first date is over. :P

12 March 2008

Figured I'd have to come in under

The year mark. I think I barely beat it. Anyhow, as I'm sure you can imagine a wee bit has happened in the past year. This isn't going to be a huge post, in fact it's going to end shortly, it's after 10 and I need to get some sleep. Still alive and plugging along in life. More of the interesting stuff later.