Saturday, April 9, 2005

Must've been faking it
As my wife runs off to get more medicine and biscuits I realize that I must have been faking it, or at least overreacting, with all previous recent sick days. A sore throat and cough is nothing compared to what I've got now. What that is I'm not sure, probably the flu. Yesterday my entire body ached, my headed was stuffy and cloudy, if I started to cough I suppressed it immediately lest I burst a blood vessel in my brain. And I had a fever of 100 degrees. I honestly cannot remember the last time I had a fever. I even skipped going to a baseball game I had tickets to, a Friday night game at Giants Stadium in the first week of the season--hot dogs, garlic fries and beer. I must be sick.

I eventually took Naproxen for the fever last night before going to bed. It seems to have broken the fever as my temp is at 97 now. I must be preparing for hibernation. So today I will start taking cough expectorants along with suppressants, so that the cough will be at a minimum but when it does come will be productive.

Yesterday while resting on the couch I watched a 3-hour documentary on Winston Churchill--an interesting fellow whose gut reaction to the fascism of Nazism while on an early trip to Germany turned out to be 100% correct.
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Wednesday, April 6, 2005

Richmond, Virginia - Virginia's Governor Mark Warner today vetoed a controversial bill that would have been a step toward lifting the federal moratorium for oil and gas drilling off the Virginia coast.

The controversial bill, SB 1054, slid through the state's General Assembly in the flurry of activity as the session ended and there was very little opportunity for public comment. Now that Governor Warner has vetoed the legislation, the General Assembly will vote to sustain or override his veto during the reconvened session beginning April 6.
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Electricity

During the drought of the late 1970s, when less hydroelectric power was available, over two-thirds of California's electricity was generated from oil and natural gas. During the decade of the 1990s, California has one of the world's most diverse resource mixes for electricity generation. In 2003, about 26.6 percent of the state's 276,969 gigawatt-hours of electricity production was produced by renewable sources (including large hydroelectric). In 2003, California imported about 22.3 percent of its electricity supply from the Desert Southwest and the Pacific Northwest. [from:
http://www.energy.ca.gov/html/calif_energy_facts.html ]
http://www.energy.ca.gov/html/energysources.html
http://www.sierraclub.org/globalwarming/cleanenergy/factsheet/
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