I heard on NPR that Ralph Nader is considering throwing his hat in for the 2008 Presidential Election. After seeing his movie, An Unreasonable Man, I thought for sure that he wouldn’t run again. But I must say I’m quite pleased with the news. Barring any other winner of my recycling contest, which I doubt there will be, Ralph will get my vote for sure.
So I was living in a house in Salt Lake City, where curb side mixed recycling was available. It was the first time in my life when I’d really recycled quite a bit of stuff on a regular basis. So when I moved back into an apartment, and it wasn’t available anymore, I really missed it. So to do it here, I’ll be driving to collection locations and sorting my recyclables manually. To do that I needed some bins, which I bought from Recy-cal They arrived today and I’m very excited to get back to recycling regularly. Of course it will be more difficult, since I’ll have to drive them to the collection locations myself, but you get the added bonus of recycling glass, which the curbside bins don’t take.
It really is, the time still works, and the alarm still works, but the button to change the hour doesn’t. Luckily, it froze on 8. That gives me a two hour window on the time by changing the minutes of either the alarm, or the current time. Right now it reads 3:02 AM even though it’s not yet 1. I’m getting up at six to go play tennis, so I had to use a new trick. I changed the minutes to 1:59. Then I let it roll over to 2, and then changed the minutes again to 2:59, thus giving me a depressing 5 hours of sleep. The guys I play tennis with are all married, so they’ve been in bed for hours already.
A friend of mine at work today also brought up an interesting comment, one that I’d heard before. He said, “99% of the people in the world are just trying to do their jobs.” The last form I’d heard it in was “the majority of people are generally good“. At first glance, it seems like a naive supposition. But I’ve come to believe it. It can be a harsh reality to accept however, because when something goes wrong, you are less likely to find a culprit who is 100% responsible. Instead you have to blame the system, or the community, of which you are a part. And then you realize that you have to help fix it, not just silently request that those involved stop making the mistakes that apparently caused it.
I’m struggling to deal with the blow of finding out that the producers of Battlestar Galactica are calling it quits after the fourth season. They cite wanting to end the series on their own terms as being a major reason. It’s been one of my favorite shows for the past year or so. Granted it does have something of a limited story, but I think there’s so much more that could be done with the show. I think they ought to at least offer to let someone else continue with it.
On another note, I decided how I will pick my candidate for the presidency in 2008. The first one to promote recycling gets my vote. I hear precious little about it, and I think that it’s one of the greatest issues facing our country. I think it should even be getting more promotion than global warming, since recycling is something every citizen can do without even spending any more money.