I hate it when this happens… it snowed a tiny bit this morning. I decided that it wouldn’t be worth the trip down to the mall. So, I went out in the neighborhood. Took 120 pictures. But, no WOW shots. No amount of tweaking and cropping can turn any of them into the WOW shot. Sometimes you catch the light. And sometimes you don’t.
Status of projects:
- The Secret “Be Nice to Carlton Project”… I am trying – honest.
- The Diet… I am sneaking up on it. As soon as I weigh myself… then I’ll get real serious.
- The Stairs Climbing… Did all 19 floors of the building without stopping today.
- The Taxes… Done… Waiting for the refunds.
Today is the last day for Free NY Times. They tried paid in 2007 and signed up a whole 227,000 customers. Including yours truly. But, that effort went bust. They apparently spent 40 MILLION dollars on the new pay wall. That is an incredible amount of money. I wish they would just setup some sort of micro-pay system. But, why am I whining. I know I’ll sign up. In the olden days I had home delivery of the dead tree Times. I can afford $15 a month. But, I’ll try to hold off for a week or two.
Carlton and I are having a little discussion about the New Madrid fault. We are sort of wondering how many people have heard of the New Madrid fault and if they have heard of it – do they known where it is? (There are no nuclear power plants really near the New Madrid fault.)
Virginia is pretty stable, but just about any place in the state can experience an earthquake. Manassas was hit by a surprise tremor in 1997, and an equivalent earthquake was felt in Culpeper (which is in the same Triassic basin as Manassas) two months earlier.
Your kid lives in one of two earthquake zones in VA. The neighbor across the street (the one dad broke) has an interesting rock split in his yard that appears to have occurred due to a quake, maybe the big Giles one – that caused noted topological shifts in this area.
from the web…
The last “big one” in Virginia (about a 5.8 on the Richter scale) was on May 31, 1897, in Pearisburg, the county seat of Giles County. The judge in the courthouse adjourned a trial, jumped over the railing, and fled outside with everyone else as the courthouse rattled, brick walls cracked, and chimneys fell over. It was Virginia’s most powerful recorded earthquake – but our recorded memory extend back only a few centuries, and the geologic history of the state extends back hundreds of millions of years. In 1959, Giles County was shaken again by a 3.8 temblor. More recently, windows were broken in a Veterans Day, 1975 earthquake in Blacksburg.
19 floors.
Talk about shaming the younger generation of software hacks.
Ouch – maybe I’ll workout tonight… been slacking on Tuesdays.
19 floors – never mind my excess tonnage.
Awesome Peggy – keep it up.
Dave