Another led Zeppelin song. "Heartbreaker" live from Earls Court and I'm sorry but I don't know what year this was done. Hope you enjoy. Page's solo is proof that he is a guitar god, as if there was any doubt about it.
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Friday, September 9, 2011
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Sherry
This is just going to be a short post on a random thought: I wish I had thought to get my sherry out of the refrigerator to get room temperature, because i could do with a glass of it right about now.
NFL Season
Tonight is the official start of the NFL season, no more pre-season games, this is for all the glory. The first game up is between last years Super Bowl winners, the Green Bay Packers and the New Orleans Saints who won the Super Bowl in 2009. So the game is going to be on NBC at 8:30 eastern/ 7:30 Central at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin. I'm going to hope the Saints win but I am not going to hold my breath. For me my favorite professional football team is the Pittsburgh Steelers, I think mainly because that is the first team I as consciously aware of as a toddler. I don't know if it is because of Terry Bradshaw (God bless him, but I hope not) or the Mean Joe Green Coca-Cola commercial, actually I think it was in fact the commercial that did it for me. Then I will go with the New Orleans Saints, because of the region in which I live. I know for the first 14 years of my life they had a losing season, all the way back to their inception in 1966 and so it wasn't until 1987 under Coach Jim Mora, that the Saints had their very FIRST winning season. To this day I still can not believe that they have had winning seasons, let alone won the Super Bowl! But whatever. I miss the paper bags over the head, Moses showing up and the Pope showing up. Yes these were people dressed up in character. Plus thee was this one guy who went around to different sporting events wearing a rainbow colored wig and holding signs with Bible scripture references, such as John 3:16. I wonder what happened to him?
So may the best team win!
So may the best team win!
GO STEELERS!
GO SAINTS
Monday, September 5, 2011
Daylight Savings Time
"Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise" so said Benjamin Franklin. I am on the fence about healthy, could not a person work themselves to an early grave? Oh well. Now the fact that it is just after 8:30pm and it looks like it is midnight outside and it is a bit depressing and that is what spurred me onto the subject of Daylight Savings Time.
Now supposedly, Daylight Savings Time (DST) also known in most European countries as summer time (George Carlin just flashed through my mind) is the time of year when we can try and get more things done and also save people money on their electric bill, because that means a person doe not have to turn the lights on until later in the evening.Maybe in June and July there is some daylight at 8 o'clock but I recently noticed, in the past couple of weeks, in the month of August, that this seems to be no longer true.
Accordingly over time, there have been disputes by experts about whether or not there are any benefits to Daylight Savings Time.Such as :
1. In 1975, a study by the U.S. Department of Transportation concluded that DST could reduce the country's use of electricity by 1% (BIG WHOOP) during March & April, but the National Bureau of Standards reviewed the study in 1976 a concluded that there were significant savings. (DUH )
2. Parts of Australia began using DST in 2000 in late winter, overall consumption of electricity did not decrease, in fact morning peak load and prices increased.
3. During the summer of 2006-2007, in Western Australia , DST increased electric use during the hotter days and and decreased during the cooler days with consumption rising 0.6% overall.
4. Even though a 2007 study estimated that introducing daylights Savings Time to Japan would cause a reduction in household lighting energy use, a simulation that same year concluded that DST would increase overall energy usage in Osaka by 0.13% , with 0.02% decrease due to less lighting more than outweighed by a 0.15% increase because of extra cooling: neither one examined non-residential energy use. These studies are mainly done in residences.
5. A 2007 study, in California, found that the earlier start to DST that year had little to no effect on electrical consumption.
6. In Great Britain, another 2007 study estimated that winter daylight savings would prevent a 2% increase in average daily electricity consumption. This study was revised in 2009.
7. A 2008 study examined billing data in Indiana before and after it adopted Daylight Savings Time in 2006, and concluded that DST increased residential electrical usage by 1% to 4%, due to afternoon cooling and extra heating in the morning; the main increase was in the autumn. All told the annual cost of DST to Indianan households was estimated to be $9 million, with an additional $1.7to $5.5 million for social cost due to pollution.
8. The U.S. Department of Energy concluded in a report, in 2008, that the 2007 U.S. extension of DST saved only 0.5% electrical usageduring the extended period. This report only broke down the extension, not the full 8 months of daylight savings and did not examine the use of heating fuels.
Several studies have suggested that DST increase motor fuel consumption. The DOE report of 2008 found no significant in motor gasoline consumption due to the 2007 extension of daylight Savings Time.
There are some more issues with this topic like the economy. For retailers the extra daylight can mean more shoppers spending money, but for farmers DST can affect them and others whose hours are set by the sun, adversely. Such as grain harvesting is best done after the dew evaporates, so when the harvesters come and leave earlier in the summer their labor is less valuable.
As for the affects on health due to DST is mixed. If one has fixed work schedule it provides more sunlight for afternoon outdoor activity. It alters sunlight exposure; depending on one's location and daily schedule, this could be beneficial because of the triggering of vitamin D synthesis and of course the flipside is that too much exposure can cause skin cancer.
Now if you are a shift worker DST can cause sleep disruption and cause inefficiency. Effects on a person's biological clock can be severe and last for weeks. BUT IF THIS IS ALL YOU KNOW THIS IS CONSIDERED TO BE NORMAL.
Now there are some more intricate subjects on this topic and I will leave y'all a couple of links at the end. But from what I have read Daylight Savings Time is a waste of time because we do not seem to be saving anything, especially money. But to each his own.
http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/c.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time
Now supposedly, Daylight Savings Time (DST) also known in most European countries as summer time (George Carlin just flashed through my mind) is the time of year when we can try and get more things done and also save people money on their electric bill, because that means a person doe not have to turn the lights on until later in the evening.Maybe in June and July there is some daylight at 8 o'clock but I recently noticed, in the past couple of weeks, in the month of August, that this seems to be no longer true.
Accordingly over time, there have been disputes by experts about whether or not there are any benefits to Daylight Savings Time.Such as :
1. In 1975, a study by the U.S. Department of Transportation concluded that DST could reduce the country's use of electricity by 1% (BIG WHOOP) during March & April, but the National Bureau of Standards reviewed the study in 1976 a concluded that there were significant savings. (DUH )
2. Parts of Australia began using DST in 2000 in late winter, overall consumption of electricity did not decrease, in fact morning peak load and prices increased.
3. During the summer of 2006-2007, in Western Australia , DST increased electric use during the hotter days and and decreased during the cooler days with consumption rising 0.6% overall.
4. Even though a 2007 study estimated that introducing daylights Savings Time to Japan would cause a reduction in household lighting energy use, a simulation that same year concluded that DST would increase overall energy usage in Osaka by 0.13% , with 0.02% decrease due to less lighting more than outweighed by a 0.15% increase because of extra cooling: neither one examined non-residential energy use. These studies are mainly done in residences.
5. A 2007 study, in California, found that the earlier start to DST that year had little to no effect on electrical consumption.
6. In Great Britain, another 2007 study estimated that winter daylight savings would prevent a 2% increase in average daily electricity consumption. This study was revised in 2009.
7. A 2008 study examined billing data in Indiana before and after it adopted Daylight Savings Time in 2006, and concluded that DST increased residential electrical usage by 1% to 4%, due to afternoon cooling and extra heating in the morning; the main increase was in the autumn. All told the annual cost of DST to Indianan households was estimated to be $9 million, with an additional $1.7to $5.5 million for social cost due to pollution.
8. The U.S. Department of Energy concluded in a report, in 2008, that the 2007 U.S. extension of DST saved only 0.5% electrical usageduring the extended period. This report only broke down the extension, not the full 8 months of daylight savings and did not examine the use of heating fuels.
Several studies have suggested that DST increase motor fuel consumption. The DOE report of 2008 found no significant in motor gasoline consumption due to the 2007 extension of daylight Savings Time.
There are some more issues with this topic like the economy. For retailers the extra daylight can mean more shoppers spending money, but for farmers DST can affect them and others whose hours are set by the sun, adversely. Such as grain harvesting is best done after the dew evaporates, so when the harvesters come and leave earlier in the summer their labor is less valuable.
As for the affects on health due to DST is mixed. If one has fixed work schedule it provides more sunlight for afternoon outdoor activity. It alters sunlight exposure; depending on one's location and daily schedule, this could be beneficial because of the triggering of vitamin D synthesis and of course the flipside is that too much exposure can cause skin cancer.
Now if you are a shift worker DST can cause sleep disruption and cause inefficiency. Effects on a person's biological clock can be severe and last for weeks. BUT IF THIS IS ALL YOU KNOW THIS IS CONSIDERED TO BE NORMAL.
Now there are some more intricate subjects on this topic and I will leave y'all a couple of links at the end. But from what I have read Daylight Savings Time is a waste of time because we do not seem to be saving anything, especially money. But to each his own.
http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/c.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
The Hikers
This joke I found on the belifnet website and I hope y'all will think it is cute as well.
One day Joe, Bob and Dave were hiking in a wilderness area when they came upon a large, raging, violent river. They need to get to the other side, but had no idea of how to do so.
Joe prayed to God saying "Please God, give me the strength to cross this river."
POOF! God gave him big arms and strong legs and he was able to swim across the river in two hours, although he almost drowned a couple of times.
Seeing this, Dave prayed to God, saying "Please God give me the strength and the tools to cross this river." POOF! God gave him a rowboat and he was able to cross the river in about an hour, after almost capsizing the boat a couple of times.
Bob had seen how this had worked out for the other two, so he also prayed to God saying "Please God, give me the strength and the tools and the intelligence, to cross the river."
POOF! God turned him into a woman. She looked at a map, hiked upstream a couple of hundred yards, then walked across the bridge.
I hope you enjoyed this little joke. Maybe I'll post one every so often. That and maybe something on the saints, the religious kind and the New Orleans kind. But if I do a post on the New Orleans Saints, I feel I should also do one on the Pittsburgh Steelers.
One day Joe, Bob and Dave were hiking in a wilderness area when they came upon a large, raging, violent river. They need to get to the other side, but had no idea of how to do so.
Joe prayed to God saying "Please God, give me the strength to cross this river."
POOF! God gave him big arms and strong legs and he was able to swim across the river in two hours, although he almost drowned a couple of times.
Seeing this, Dave prayed to God, saying "Please God give me the strength and the tools to cross this river." POOF! God gave him a rowboat and he was able to cross the river in about an hour, after almost capsizing the boat a couple of times.
Bob had seen how this had worked out for the other two, so he also prayed to God saying "Please God, give me the strength and the tools and the intelligence, to cross the river."
POOF! God turned him into a woman. She looked at a map, hiked upstream a couple of hundred yards, then walked across the bridge.
I hope you enjoyed this little joke. Maybe I'll post one every so often. That and maybe something on the saints, the religious kind and the New Orleans kind. But if I do a post on the New Orleans Saints, I feel I should also do one on the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Monday, August 29, 2011
Katrina
I had a cat named Katrina at one time and my Mom always said if there was ever a hurricane with her name to look out. Well, found out how right my Mom was six years ago.
It's hard to believe that it has already been 6 years since Hurricane Katrina made her presence known. I remember being at a family reunion in Gulfport, Mississippi and going to the beach, looking out at the Gulf of Mexico and thinking that it was so beautiful but yet could be so dangerous. Two months later the Louisiana and Mississippi Gulf coasts found out just how dangerous the water could be.
I started waking up at around 5:30 in the morning an listening to my radio trying to find out what I could about Hurricane Katrina and then I would turn my radio off a get some more sleep. At one point one of the radio stations was playing "Walking On Sunshine" by Katrina and the Waves, so twisted. Anyway, I did this until about a quarter to nine in the morning that is when the fuse at the end of my driveway blew and no one had power. So what was a person to do? Just get up and get on with life the best as one can without electricity. Having been a hour away from New Orleans there were some high winds and some rain, but honestly I had been in summer thunderstorms that were worse. Compared to most people, including other family members , who are even farther away from New Orleans including the family in Mississippi, I came out untouched by Katrina because not having electricity was the worst thing that happened.Just depends on fate I guess. I was in my kitchen six years ago thinking how was I going to cook supper and that was when the power came back on.But my neighbors across the street still didn't have power because the blown fuse services them and the houses behind them, so it was after 10 pm before the got their power. So that is my Hurricane Katrina experience( such as it was).
It's hard to believe that it has already been 6 years since Hurricane Katrina made her presence known. I remember being at a family reunion in Gulfport, Mississippi and going to the beach, looking out at the Gulf of Mexico and thinking that it was so beautiful but yet could be so dangerous. Two months later the Louisiana and Mississippi Gulf coasts found out just how dangerous the water could be.
I started waking up at around 5:30 in the morning an listening to my radio trying to find out what I could about Hurricane Katrina and then I would turn my radio off a get some more sleep. At one point one of the radio stations was playing "Walking On Sunshine" by Katrina and the Waves, so twisted. Anyway, I did this until about a quarter to nine in the morning that is when the fuse at the end of my driveway blew and no one had power. So what was a person to do? Just get up and get on with life the best as one can without electricity. Having been a hour away from New Orleans there were some high winds and some rain, but honestly I had been in summer thunderstorms that were worse. Compared to most people, including other family members , who are even farther away from New Orleans including the family in Mississippi, I came out untouched by Katrina because not having electricity was the worst thing that happened.Just depends on fate I guess. I was in my kitchen six years ago thinking how was I going to cook supper and that was when the power came back on.But my neighbors across the street still didn't have power because the blown fuse services them and the houses behind them, so it was after 10 pm before the got their power. So that is my Hurricane Katrina experience( such as it was).
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