While the US military is busy trying to find people to fight against, let me offer a suggestion. Let's go after those darn alien abductors once and for all. I mean they're legitimate terrorists. They've secretly invaded our cities with sleeper cells of homeless alcoholics that are all under their control. Let's get together with a few other countries and collect enough nukes to wipe out their secret base on Uranus. My preliminary estimates are that it would take roughly the entire world nuclear stockpile to overcome their formidable defenses.

A couple of weeks of spring weather and then the rains come again. All on schedule.

Sometime in the next couple of months the butterflies are supposed to return to San Jaun Capistrano. Or was that the pigeons? They say the mind is the first thing to go... Except for some strange reason they (the butterflies anyway) all died in Mexico this year. Terrible thing... Butterflies are cool. Their brains are hard-wired to have sex or die. No pressure there huh?

I know I've been pushing myself pretty hard, but I've been trying to keep it within sane limits. At least I thought I was. Exhaustion is setting in. Have to back off or I'm gonna' turn into mental mush. It's still nothing like the 18 hours a day that I was putting into high-tech a few years back. What I recall about those times is mostly the strange dreams and even the waking hours were filled with hallucinations.

It's expected to take 30 years to clean up Hanford ( , Washington nuclear weapons plant). At least it's down from 70 years. They need to turn a gazillion metric tons of dirt into glass logs and truck them to Yucca mountain or wherever they're clearing space for the stuff. Ya' know I never did take take the Washington side of the Columbia River gorge. Probably just as well. Lot of plutonium in them parts.