See...Green IS Sexy!

Before I had my Prius, I would visualize myself driving one and pretend that my then car (a Chevy) was actually a Prius.

Yesterday, I found myself visualizing zipping around in one of these 100% electric Tesla Roadsters.

I immediately felt like I was cheating on my Prius, but if I had $109K, I'd be first in line for one of these bad boys. Sorry Joan.

LEED makes my brain feel leaky

I'm hitting the books hard this week in preparation for my LEED-CI AP test. I've set a deadline for myself of June 1st, but last night I entered the calculation and formula territory and now I'm starting to flip out a little. I'm meeting with a friend tonight who is also studying for the test and she has a bunch of secondary study material and some practice tests, so I'm eager to see if it looks like I'll actually have to know all of the formulas or just be familiar with what formula is used for each credit.
I'll probably be missing in action for a few weeks as I plan to study at least 2 hours every night. Of course, last night I fell asleep while studying so I only got in an hour, but I think I'm getting a slight cold which would explain why I was so tired yesterday; I could barely keep my eyes open!

Houston to Richland Springs and Back Again

This weekend Blair and I went to Tara's ranch in Richland Springs, Texas. I think the population there is 350. As this was Blair's first trip outside of Houston I was determined to give him a taste of Americana. Unfortunately his only experience of Americana was the movie Deliverance, so understandably he was slightly nervous about getting out of the car.
First stop was Pardners in Buchanan. We pulled up into the parking lot and he decided he wasn't going to get out of the car. Too bad, because the people watching in the bar was priceless. I tried to get photos but most of them turned up too dark but, I have four words for you:Rhinestone Boot Disco Ball! Also, he got hasseled in the car when some cops banged on the window and asked him where he was from. When he said "Houston" they said, "You don't sound like you're from Houston boy". Serves him right, should have gone into the bar with me!

Once at the ranch it was much of the usual:drinking, smoking and fire arms. Oh, and Queso, yumm. It was a really relaxing and fun weekend and everyone got along just swell. Hopefully we'll get to go back soon, maybe Memorial day.

Cool Coolness

I have spent many minutes bitching aimlessly about the absence of a program I had on a Kyocera model mobile phone years ago on all new phones since. I probably made about as much sense during those many minutes of bitching as I did in that last sentence (grammar much?).
But lo and behold my days of bitching are over (at least on that subject) as I have just downloaded a program called Tipster to my Blackjack AND it does exactly what I need it to do! Oh, except it doesn't calculate at 17%, only 15% and 20%. Oh well, I guess I'll let that one slide.