I Ain't Afraid of No Daleks

So, I'm doing a bit of mindless blogging before I slap on my good ol' trusty cowboy hat (Unlike Tennant, I'm no metrosexual, but purely urban-suburban cowgirl--who hates country music, btw), and grab the 7pm trolley for Lake
George, for some soft ice cream. Yeee-ha! Can you stand the excitement? It'll be just like going to one of them there London red carpet film premiers....not. Well, it gets me outta' the apartment, anyway, and I really do love the view from the lakeside. I was going to go tomorrow night, to watch the fireworks over the lake, but meh--I saw fireworks last week, at the downtown luau, so that's good enough, I reckon.

Had a nap for several hours, and feel much, much better. My blood sugar was okay--bit high, but close enough to normal for me not to worry about it, so I don't know why I was feeling so peaked, all afternoon. Maybe my blood count is low again, who knows?

Can't decide on what to have for diner later tonight. Wavering between Polish sausage and pierogi, or eggplant (aubergine) parmagiana with pasta and tomato cream sauce. Or, maybe I'll just have a toasted cheese sandwich and some tomato soup....decisions, decisions....

Have a lovely night, all.

Yes, we are experiencing global warming. Yes, it is effecting us, right now, affect you, where you live, whether you notice it or not. It is most telling in regards to wildlife: shifting migration patterns and territorial boundaries, changes in population and growth. For instance, where I live, we're seeing wildlife moving into areas they hadn't been in in decades--even a century or more. Moose and wolf are two species, drifting into the southern Adirondacks, which haven't been seen here, in a good many decades.

Some people attribute this to loss of habitat--true, but rising temperatures will not only change migration patterns, it also disrupts the long-established food chain, as well.

Now, global warming also is causing more wildfires in the American west, with longer periods between rain, causing forest and scrub land to become tinder-dry. Also, lakes and reservoirs to slowly dry up and water levels in the west are lowering at sometimes an alarming rate...in some cases lower than they've been since they were created. This is especially worrysome, in desert regions, where water is already scarce. Places like Las Vegas Nevada and Phoenix, Arizona, with their large urban populations, could be in for some tough times in the rest of this century.

And, it' just not the American west that will be having water problems. Between global warming, massive water pollution, and other problems, the world will most definitely see an massive increase in "water wars," as countries struggle to get clean, potable water to its people, and for agriculture. Ironically, in places like the US, agriculture is one of the polluters, with pesticides, manure and human waste (many commerical growers in the western US and Mexico, station outhouses right next to the fields, and guess where the waste is going?) Hence the massive e-coli scares within the United States.

Yet, the water situation isn't just about supply. Acid rain is a major issue in my part of the world. Midwestern coal burning plants who don't use the best scrubbers (thanks to George "Lets destroy the planet and make lots of cash in the process" Bush, they don't have to) send their pollution eastward, which comes down in the form of acid rain. Pollution from cars also contributes to this, though not on the scale of the coal-burning plants.

Acid rain kills. Period...trees, fish, aquatic plants, doesn't matter. This is what it does to high-peaks region lakes, here where I live:

LOOKS PRETTY--BUT CONTAINS NO LIFE! A lake effected by acid rain.

It even melts stone. This is what acid rain does to monuments and buildings, pretty soon, this angel won't be able to weep, as the eyes disappear, eaten away by the acid tears of mankind's folly:

An especial good morning to my Corinth buddy!

Tired, could use a bit more sleep, but the meds seem to be working. Foot still feels like rubbish though, alas.

Nice day here. The cats are happy and content, just lying about. Chainsaw buzzing across the street at 8am, I could do without though.

I want my sound back! I want to watch New Doctor Who! My DVD player will only let me watch Classic Dr Who, of which I have all of 2 DVD's...Five Doctors and Ark in Space....good DVD's to have but, they're aren't Davies' stuff, though, are they?

No internet radio, either, boo-hoo. Well, I put on my Proclaimer's CD yesterday, will do that today. Think I'll play some cribbage or euchre on the computer, before work. Having a nice fry-up of hash brown potatoes, scrambled eggs and a bit of fried Polish kilbasa sausage. Didn't eat yesterday until around 2pm, thought I'd make up for missing a meal with a good breaky this morning.

Have a brilliant day, my friends, cheers. N.

I'm in pain.

My back (kidney's) are killing me. But, also, I slipped in the shower this morning, and twisted my knee and hurt my bad foot--well, my bad foot hurts 24/7, so I guess I should say I hurt it some more. I really ache like you wouldn't believe. I took some Advil and put on some liniment, but not helping much.

On top of that, I had wet hands from doing the diner dishes, a few minutes ago, and went to put something away in the 'fridge. It slipped from my hands and fell under the 'fridge door. I went to retrieve it, and touched the bottom metal part of the 'fridge--and got a huge shock! I mean the muscles in my arm jerked and spasmed! Wow! That felt funky, let me tell you! But...how can the bottom of my fridge shock me? Is that normal?

Not one of my better days, is it?

I'm soooo-tired. I napped a bit. Went, by my estimate, around 33 hours without any sleep whatsoever, so I took a nap for about 4 hours, got up, had dinner, blogged and surfed a bit, did the washing up, had a drink of limeade, and...here I am.

Yup, still exhausted. I guess I've got a bad infection, 'cos I'm back on antibiotics again. Oh well. Gee, back in 2006, I was, despite my weight, extremely fit, except for a bit of high blood pressure, that is. I walked 1 to 3 miles or more a day, lifted heavy loads all the time, swam a lot (in season, of course), hiked...rode horses when I could afford it, or my bicycle when I had one, all the time. Now, I go down for the mail, or do the Hoovering, and I feel like I've run a blinking marathon! I've aged 20 years in one year's time. Whoa. There's a wake-up call for you, if ever there was one.

I need to be active, but my income and lack of car, lack of connections, lack of...well, I'm all chav these days, and with the people around here who run voluteer stuff, that's not acceptable. Very snooty--and just a little bit snarky, are many upstate New Yorkers, and, I know whereof I speak.

I supppose I could try the Salvation Army, but I don't like praying any longer--long story, but trust me, I have my very good reasons to be personally anti-prayer.

Speaking of snooty, snarky New Yorkers, I was literally limping home today, very slowly and painfully, and there was this trendy couple and their two kids, all on bicycles--all wearing their ultra-trendy bicycle helmets. Well, you know how one can tell, when a family is on an outing as a "family," and when a family is on an outing just for appearances? This was the Keeping Up Appearances type of mum and dad. Mum and dad, in their oh-so-trendy cycling helmets and 200 dollar bicycles, were walking along...completely oblivious to their daughter and son, going along behind them! I mean, they are going through one of the second busiest zebra crossings in all of the city, and not even looking behind them to make sure their flaming kids are there! And then, I get to the kerb, and go to step up, and the stinking little boy, comes barreling by me on his bike--the kerb has a "ramp" for the handicapped, which I needed on this day...and the little "darling," nearly rams into me, hurrying to beat me to the ramp, so the brat doesn't have to get off and push his bike up onto the kerb! I yelled out in alarm, as I nearly fell backwards--did mum and dad notice or even care? All got from dear ol' yuppie mum, was a disdainful scowl, over her shoulder.

Yeah trendy chick? Well, you may have the money, but you haven't got an ounce of class to go with it. Nouveau riche...god help us.

If I feel any better--not looking good, but you never know, I may go to the beach tomorrow, after work..not for long, maybe just a quick swim, as tomorrow is supposed to be the best day of the week. Or, I may just go for another ice cream. I do like my soft ice cream cones...yummy.

Weather's turning very autumnal--in a nice way. Mid-70's F during the day, but dipping into the low 40's--even into the upper 30's F, at night. Goodwin street just on the corner fro me, is already littered with dead leaves! We are in for an early autumn, as some of the leaves on the trees are changing weeks earlier than normal, this year. I believe the Farmer's Almanac about the cold winter we are in store for. Sod the National Weather Service. I believe my eyes! I may be wrong, but I wouldn't be surprised if we had a snow flurry or two, by or before Halloween night. Not the first time. One year--'86 or '87 I think, we had a genuine blizzard the second week of October, that dumped a half a foot of snow on us, and knocked out power to half the state, for about 3 days, because the leaves were still on the trees, and the trees couldn't take the heavy wet snow and leaves both on them, so hundreds and hundreds of trees toppled over like ten-pins in a bowling alley. I still recall the amazing sight, of an oak tree that had fallen over, on top of a huge black granite obelisk in Albany Rural Cemetery--sheering the solid granite in half! Whoa. The strength of living wood. Far out.

Well, I'm off to bed. Have a great Wednesday all.

...Yup, he's decided that he's tired of being Doctor Who, so he's signed on to play the captain of a starship, that goes out exploring into space. He'll be captaining a crew consisting of a pointy-eared klnow-it-all alien who everyone dis's behind his back, some American guy who has an annoying habit of talking in a really bad Russian accent, an Asian guy and a black woman--you know, to show the world that the future is very politically correct--tho' the woman still has to wear a low cut mini-skirt for tit and arse appeal, and, just for the hell of it, a really cranky doctor who whinges a lot, and says "he's dead, Jim" all the time, for no apparent reason.

Speaking of David Tennant's hair. I happened across some review of Hamlet, where the critic actually said that Tennant uses his hair onstage, as a sort of living prop....I'm paraphrasing, but...okay, that's probably the strangest comment I've ever read in a theatrical review--that the reviewer complemented the actor on the use of his hair! Which, must have made Patrick Stewart cringe, 'cos ya'know, he's bald and all--and even more ironically, I noted that the comment about Tennant's hair, was placed right next to a picture of Patrick Stewart's head! Was that meant to be deliberate, or was that just another one of life's cruel ironies?

...to fix the damn computer. MS support wants me to do a virus scan in "safe" mode...unfortunately, my computer objects. to that. Won't let me access the internet in "safe" mode, so I can run the online virus scan. Oh well, nice try, anyway. Four marks for effort. Sonuvabitch. And, you know when I swear on my blogs, Nancy ain't happy.