Hello loyal readers. It’s time for us to focus on something important, this world of ours. Blah blah blah live green. Yes I know it’s a fad to be green, but screw green, I’m talking about survival. I am talking about how you will feel when you die knowing that what you left behind is a pile of shit. What did you get in exchange for a pile of crap served up in a plastic coffin? A few years of driving a Hummer and bottled water from Fiji.
What the hell am I talking about? Well, first of all you need to stop over-driving. Where are you going? Plan your trips. You need to eat each week. You need to go to work everyday. You need to do some other shopping. Plan that shit. Know where the stores are on your way to and from work. Make a route from your office to the cleaners, to the store, to your home. Do not drive home in heavy traffic, change your cloths, drive to the dry cleaners, go home and eat. The next day you do the same but this time you go to the supermarket instead of the cleaners. Wrap that up into one trip. Do that stuff close to your office, after work, and then you can drive home a little later in the day and at a fixed speed (less traffic) with better fuel economy.
What the hell are we eating. “Meat is Murder”, remember that crap? Well, it’s true but not because cows are awesome. It should be rephrased to “Beef is Murder”. You know those green house gases you hear about? Turns out 1/3 of those gases come from the food you eat. Specifically from cattle. Cattle (pigs and sheep) fart and crap and burp. All those gases add up and are hurting the environment. These gases are green house gases (methane). Stop eating beef, lamb and pork. The biggest offender is the cow. In addition, that salmon you love so much has to be trucked from them to you (unless you live near salmon – you know you don’t) and those trucks use gas. Start eating local. Go (walk or take the bus) to your local farmers market and purchase fowl and fish (if it’s local), veggies and precooked carbs (bread, etc.) When you go bring your own bag.
Not only are those gases coming from the ass of a live cow, it also comes from the decomposition of your left-overs (the ones you toss, not the ones you eat). You know when you go to the Claim Jumper and you get the big ass plate of food. Then you don’t finish it because it is 3 times the size of the human stomach, well take that stuff home and eat it over the next few days. If you throw it out (or leave it behind) it goes into the trash. After the trash, it goes to the land fill where it is buried with other food waste (rather than mixed with dirt and composted). While buried, it breaks down (more commonly know as decomposition) and, in a non-oxygen environment, it creates methane gas. Yup, more green house gases.
Finally, drink your tap water. It’s really much better then you think. Or you can filter that tap water through a Britta filter you can use over and over again. Filter some water and pour it into a glass (or plastic) container and take it with you. Fiji water come from Fiji. Find Fiji on a map and then locate yourself. How close is that? It’s bottled there and then shipped (by boat and truck) to you in the US. You have to ship water into your country and you don’t live in a land-locked desert, that is waste. Think about all the wasted resources (oil, gas, rubber, glass, steel, misc. chemicals, exhaust, etc.) it takes to deliver a bottle of water to a store shelf. Then think about how easy it is to turn on the faucets and filter some water.
So Saturday was movie night. The peeps from 81st Street (minus Toby, plus Jung) gathered ’round and watched a film. This month’s host was Brian (and Kelly). The bulldog busted out his spices from The Rack and kicked out some killer chicken bites, Mac ‘n cheese squares, chili fries, and meatloaf on a cracker. Add a few beers and some Mojitos and you have a warn, homey feeling in your belly.