Earth Day 2014

1. For What It’s Worth

Happy Earth Day!  (I hope it is…)

What did I do for Earth Day? I rode a bicycle into work instead of driving a car. Being “Green” and trying to be eco-friendly does somewhat reduce my carbon footprint. I believe every little bit helps.

I heard a story a long time ago and it goes something like this…

A girl was walking along a beach and noticed a bunch of starfish that were washed way up onto the beach and they probably would not get back to the water, and would most likely end up dying there. So she decided to pick up a starfish and throw it back into the ocean. This went on for a little while when some guy observing this behavior asked what she was doing. She told him they would die if they did not get back into the ocean that they would all die, and she continued her good deed. The guy said, “Lady, this happens on every beach all over the world, and your efforts won’t make any difference really overall.” She smiled, picked up another starfish and threw it back into the ocean and said, “It made a difference to that starfish.” The man smiled and nodded with acknowledgement and picked up a starfish and threw it back into the ocean. J

So, did you do something positive for Earth day?  Go make a small difference! J

Well, the Blackhawks finally won a playoff game last night (Game 3), but only barely winning. They played some very sloppy hockey giving the puck away too many times in their own zone only to be saved by our goalie. Good thing we had Carey Crawford in as goaltender and he was playing his A Game last night. If we don’t pick up our game, we won’t be playing too much more hockey this season. Game 4 is tomorrow still at home, so let’s hope we get motivated and start playing 60 minutes of good hockey by then! Let’s go Blackhawks!

Yesterday and today I have been watching some You Tube videos about VW Busses and living in a bus or living the so-called van-life. I believe I can learn from other people’s experiences rather than learning them painfully and possibly costing you valuable time and money. Some are quite informative and some just tell you nothing of real value. So you end up sifting through the majority of them and doing so they inevitably lead you to other videos that could be of some value. We are doing this as we type this blog post now. We are watching the videos on the iphone and writing this blog on the laptop, except the videos keep hanging up and stopping all the time, which is quite frustrating and does piss me off to no extent. Why does this continue to occur? Stupid computers!

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2. Alternate Band Name Game

Clue:  Affirmative

Answer:   ?

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Previous Alternate Band Name Game

Clue: Rock – Synagogue -  Aviators

Answer: Stone Temple Pilots

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3. Television Trivia

Clues:   

Mike

Davy

Mickey

Peter

Answer:  ??

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Previous Post’s Television Trivia

Clues:  

Early 60s Cartoon Show

Race Bannon

Hadji

Bandit

Answer: Jonny Quest

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4. How Well Do You Know Us?

Question:  How did Michael get Snoopy?

Answer:  ??

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Previous Game of How Well Do You Know Us?

Question: What does Michael name his prized possessions after?

Answer:  Peanuts Comic Characters (Linus, Snoopy, Joe Cool, etc)

Once again Tim B has dominated the quizzes with his three correct answers. Batting three for three, he should be playing baseball… J

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Snoopy wants me to remind you to, “Bark Less and Wag More!”

Until next time… Be good!

- cb