Daily Archives: December 13, 2016
Cookkkiieeess . . .
said like Cookie Monster
Jan has hosed out the hollow tree, yelled at the drunken elves, and started turning out Christmas cookies. She does candy cane cookies, rum balls, wedding cookies, and Rolo-Pretzel treats, all of them delicious. Then she bundles them up on decorative plates, and then we pass them out to friends and family. But this year it will be all friends and coworkers. They’re in for a treat.
I’m not sure what happened since I was at this gate a couple of weeks ago, but both 3G and 4G speeds have dropped off drastically. It took almost 15 minutes to upload the blog last night, but at least it’s just slow, and not dropping out all the time.
I mentioned last night about the new flare stack here at this site since I last worked here. Well, about 3am I noticed that the landscape out my front window toward the highway was tinted red. Turning around, I saw that our stack here had started up in high gear, not flaming oil high, but high enough,
In fact at times the flare was higher than the top of the crane. But the fog made it hard to get a good focus on a shot. But as before I could feel the heat.
So far tonight it’s staying pretty normal, but we’ll see as the night progresses.
A week or so ago I mentioned that I was going to do an article on what’s really going on with the whole North Dakota Access Pipeline kerfuffle. But the research is taking a little longer than I had thought because there are so many different sides to it, more than just for or against.
I’ve read everything from the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post, through the right-wing and left-wing conspiracy blogs, down to individual bloggers in the area, and on both sides on the controversy.
In fact, going from article to article, it’s sometimes hard to tell they’re all talking about the same thing. But hopefully I’ll be able to lay it all out for you so that it makes sense.
I hope.
Tomorrow is my last day here at this gate, at least for now, and although it will cut into my sleep a little, Jan and I are having Chicken & Dumplings and Hamburger Steak at Barth’s once again.
Thought for the Day:
Vermont, the only state that has never required a permit to either open carry or conceal carry a weapon, also has the lowest rate of violent crime in the U.S., with only 99 incidents per 100,000 population. Coincidence?
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