Wednesday, January 25, 2006
This and that
I've been busy with my various projects, as you either know or cleverly guessed, and tomorrow I won't me around much at all, as I am driving off for a WILD FLING to the big bustling city of Pueblo! All on my own! By myself! Really!
I am going to buy 10 rolls of corrugated cardboard, aka b-flute, which will end up being at least a year's supply for me unless business picks up beyond my wildest dreams of avarice. It's a typical story...buying one roll at a time from a local business was costing twice the rate we'd been getting it for buying in bulk, plus he wasn't reliable. So I found someone ONLY 2 hours away...but while he was dealing with a supplier and getting things going (all during the Christmas season), Damaris and I were running low. So we went back to the Denver wholesalers...and now we have LOTS of b-flute. Or will, after tomorrow.
Don't think I have mentioned Where's George here lately -- where you write or stamp the website address www.wheresgeorge.com on paper currency and enter the serial number in their database. They will email you when someone picks up 'your' bill and re-enters it, so you can see where your money goes, besides Away.
Anyway, some bright boys got the even brighter idea of using the data as a way of creating a new paradigm for how disease travels in modern society. Here's the article link:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-01/uoc--igp012406.php
I feel quite pleased at this, as I have been a Georger for several years now. Despite not doing as much with it lately as I would have liked, I am still about 14th in Colorado and in the upper 1000 of the whole membership at the site. So I feel like I contributed to science!
I am going to buy 10 rolls of corrugated cardboard, aka b-flute, which will end up being at least a year's supply for me unless business picks up beyond my wildest dreams of avarice. It's a typical story...buying one roll at a time from a local business was costing twice the rate we'd been getting it for buying in bulk, plus he wasn't reliable. So I found someone ONLY 2 hours away...but while he was dealing with a supplier and getting things going (all during the Christmas season), Damaris and I were running low. So we went back to the Denver wholesalers...and now we have LOTS of b-flute. Or will, after tomorrow.
Don't think I have mentioned Where's George here lately -- where you write or stamp the website address www.wheresgeorge.com on paper currency and enter the serial number in their database. They will email you when someone picks up 'your' bill and re-enters it, so you can see where your money goes, besides Away.
Anyway, some bright boys got the even brighter idea of using the data as a way of creating a new paradigm for how disease travels in modern society. Here's the article link:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-01/uoc--igp012406.php
I feel quite pleased at this, as I have been a Georger for several years now. Despite not doing as much with it lately as I would have liked, I am still about 14th in Colorado and in the upper 1000 of the whole membership at the site. So I feel like I contributed to science!
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