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11.13.07

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Mountaintop Removal (Photos)

09.13.07

I’ll be the first to admit, stopping Mountaintop removal mining isn’t the most glamorous cause to get behind. It’s not daring or exciting, it doesn’t involve lives hanging in the balance. It’s rather boring and besides don’t I secretly want whatever resources their mining for us?

Take a look at this picture. Now think for a minute how the entire middle portion of this picture used to be lush green forest and roaming mountainsides just like the edges of the picture.

If that doesn’t strike you to ask what in the world we are doing, I’m not sure what will. Maybe this video?

Take Action and Stop Mountain Top Removal

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Do you Recycle?

09.13.07

Is it really that difficult people?

Treehugger reported that 23% of people in the USA don’t recycle. First of all let me say that I am impressed by that number. I certainly would have thought the majority of people do not recycle (what a skeptic!), but in turns out they do. To which I have to say to the rest of you: What’s your problem?

I do think we should exercise the beauty that is democracy and make it a law to recycle, since the majority of us do already. We could take the money made from ticketing the other 23% of us and buy some more recycle bins for the office. What do you say?

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My baby can sleep through anything.

09.13.07

I just thought I would share with you a short list of things my wonderful baby has slept through (or at least been extremely pleasant and peaceful during) in the last few weeks.

Airplane ride
5.5 hour car ride
Blaring dance music (including 80’s rock) at a wedding reception (including dancing).
Grocery trips
and a nail gun.

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Why (I think) I am going to buy a house

09.13.07

For anyone who knows me fairly well, I tend to be on the frugal side of the spectrum when it comes to money. I’m pretty anti-debt in general, having taken out loans only for school and nothing else so far, and having cut up all our credit cards over a year ago (I can explain that if you want). I had in my mind in previous years that I would simply wait to purchase a home until we could pay cash for it, however, we are currently changing our mind from that.

I still think debt is bad and given the option I think you should pay cash for everything you can possibly pay cash for. The only notable exceptions I can think of are education and, now, a home. However, this is how I plan on handling this home thing:

We will buy something that we can pay off in 5 years or less, and we will pay it off in five years or less.
I’m not going to the bank, seeing how much I qualify for and then getting a home in that range.
We will not buy a ’starter home’ with the intention of upgrading as soon as we can afford the monthly payments.
If I buy a fixer-upper, I do not intend to do major renovations, redo the kitchen, or any other ‘Better Homes and Gardens’ type remodeling.

There are a few reasons I see buying a house as a good idea.

As soon as we pay it off we no longer have to pay rent or a mortgage (though I recognize there are taxes and home insurance, which they seem not to tell you when your considering houses).
We will be able to make changes to it to make it more environmentally friendly.
We will be able to have a garden in which to grow food to eat.
We will have roots and vested interest in the community in which we are a part of.

I’m looking forward to all the opportunities that come with owning a house, but I’m still skeptical of the whole thing. There are definite benefits to renting as well, so I’m not trying to discourage anyone away from that.

I think the recent economic situation with houses, mortgages and interest is going to teach us something about the reality of taking more debt then we should.

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Blogging for Blogging Sake

09.13.07

This will be my first actual blog post on here in a while. It is also the first post that will be imported to Facebook. This is more or less and experimental blog, so there is a brief explanation on why I am writing on here and why I am importing these to facebook.

I’m importing these to facebook because, well, why not? I would like to have an audience for the things that I write and putting them on facebook seems like a fairly unobtrusive way to do that. ignore me if you’d like.
The reason I’m starting to write on this site is because I decided to take a break from blogging at my more prominent site, Trying to Follow ( http://blog.iamnotashamed.net ) for a variety of reasons. However, I’ve found my writing and writing abilities have been lacking and so I need some sort of outlet for that.
I originally intended this blog to be mostly about blogging, wordpress and tutorials, but it doesn’t have much of an audience period yet, so why not mess around with it a little? Here goes nothing.

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