Another oil spill

Today I ate more seaweed for lunch. It was cold all day here today, for us it may be one of our last cold snaps before spring really springs.  It got up to 50 degrees F today. We got out the chainsaw for a few minutes and used it to chop up some windfall branches and wood from the trees that are here on the property. 

It looks like the wood we got two years ago, delivered green from a tree trimmer, is going to cover us for the rest of our winter.  We have always heated with wood, even way back in 1974 when we first started dating.

As we cut up the logs, I reflected a little about how our lives in 2011 are so dependent on "cheap" energy.

After the countless human tragedies in Japan, with thousands missing and dead, the reality is more horrifying than the worst scary movie. And it is all related to our civilization's dependence on energy.

There are burning nuclear reactors in Japan spewing radiation that has me eating seaweed 5000 miles away. 

In the Mideast -- dictator or not a dictator, the oil underneath the ground is what has taken us to war after war there. 

And now another deepwater spill in the Gulf.

One of our site admins wrote today that when she works in our virtual world, answering customer service and writing messages to members, it is like being on a vacation. That was the place I knew Club Pony Pals would be when we started. 

A famous game designer that I know and I went to see a movie last night, Patricia told me that "Games are designed by the people who already play games. The change in the kind of games made is going to have to come from outside the game company system." 


I think she is right. Welcome to our barn. It's a pretty nice place.