I would post a lot more stuff to this blog but my life just isn't that exciting.  Who wants to read "Today I woke up, went to work, came home, ate, slept."  I know I surely don't want to type anything when that's all I did.

Interesting observation: All this twitter posting has developed the habit of only putting one space after a period, instead of the grammatically correct two spaces I was taught to use in high school english.

I was thinking about my teenage years this morning for some reason.  This lead me to think about first times I did something.  No I'm not talking about sex, you perverts.

The first "secular" music tape (I know, right! Tapes! Be Kind, Rewind!) I owned was the soundtrack to Cocktail.  I literally had no idea why I bought it.  I hadn't heard of many of the artists on it at the time.  I just liked that Beach Boys song "Kokomo."  Even now I have to say it is rather catchy.  I was a thirteen year old socially rejected sheltered young lad so don't judge me.

The first album I bought with a parental advisory on it was Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik.  There was shit in that album I hadn't even heard of.  That album still marks my thinking as one of the best albums I have ever listened to.  It's certainly the best Chili Peppers album I've ever listened to.  Yes, I know all the lyrics to all the songs on there.

The first R movie I saw was Universal Soldier (and it all went downhill from there).  I went with my Dad to the Plaza Theater in Cortland, NY.  The other movie showing at the time was A League Of Their Own.  I remember enjoying the movie but being scared when Dolf Lundgren (however you spell his name...foreigners) killed that one black guy in the lab with that syringe full of whatever.  Why do they always kill the black guy?  Anyway, back on topic.

The first gun I ever shot was an Ithaca Deerslayer 20 gauge with a scope on it.  I was sixteen I think.  I had always seen people using scoped weapons in movies with their eye up in the scope like it's a pair of binoculars.  Naturally, having no other example this is what I did.  Not the recommended method as my forehead took a sharp blow from the top of the scope when I pulled the trigger.  Betrayed by action movies once again.  I wish my Dad or the man we went shooting with had corrected me, but perhaps they were secretly amused by my misfortune.  I was mildly embarrassed and tried to play it off like it didn't hit me in the face.  Tell me you would have done differently.

I was watching a video of people "exposing" oilfield pollution. The people making the videos have absolutely no idea what they are looking at or talking about. It's just amazing how ignorant they are. "Oh there's brown stuff on the tank must be the tank runs over all the time." No jackass, that's what happens when you run a tape down into the tank to gauge it and bring it back out. It drips a little. Did you notice the dike around the tank battery? Did you see that it's bone dry? Do you know that under that dirt is a thick waterproof liner? Do you actually know anything? Have you ever seen a tank battery run over? It makes one HELL of a mess. The whole tank is stained with crude oil not just one or two small lines of oil that dripped off a tape gauge. Also there tends to be stained dirt and pools of crude oil all over the place. Oil does not evaporate you see. Moron woman really needs to learn something about what she's talking about before she posts videos to You Tube expecting to be taken seriously.

Not to mention that she was trespassing, not wearing any personal protective equipment and was anyone in her entourage smoking? She had absolutely no business being there unless she owns the land. Tank Batteries are not playgrounds. She mentions the oil company that she thinks owns the lease, not realizing that a different company has bought the lease and now operates it.

I'm being deliberately vague with company names. I've done work for both companies on that very location she's standing on. The point isn't who owns what the point is this lady, like many people talking about this subject in the news, has no idea what she is looking at.