Yeah, we've messed it up big time.

    A lot of people wonder how on Earth global warming affects them. People tend to wonder why bad weather exists, and I'll tell it is something we fucking control.
    So let me do a run down of how we as a whole, are pretty much fucking with the planet, and the signs there in. I already know this is proven, but people fail to see the day to day implications so I'm going to point a few out.
    First I'll start with the internet outage in the Middle East.
    "Yesterday's bad weather conditions were felt in bordering Israel today, where public transportation, schools and most businesses in Jerusalem shut down, leaving the streets empty of traffic as the city braced for as much as 20 centimeters (8 inches) of snow."
    It snowed in the desert yet again - and the heavy snow did not relent, and the result? Bad seas, and bad docking conditions for a group of six ships. These ships made emergency landfall on a shore that had data cables, and the cables were cut. So - lets review - bad weather meant that ships killed the internet? Ok, that's a fact.
    Let's move on to China.
    China's government has warned people to brace for more bad weather as the country struggles to cope with the worst snow storms in over 50 years.
    Ok, so now we have China. The worst weather in fifty years is murdering thousands of people in the country, and of course the Chinese government is downplaying these figures by posting 'sixty' as a number of deaths. A whole city with a population of four million people has been without power for eight days. EIGHT DAYS IN SUB-ZERO TEMPERATURES MEANS A LOT MORE THAN SIXTY DEATHS. Yet the idiots tell their coal plants to produce more energy, and pump out more CO2 into the atmosphere. This is to sustain their system? Not likely as the power to the city is not going to be restored until tomorrow - ten days later. A new solution is needed.
    Let's move on to our own country. My homeland, Chicago.
    CHICAGO -- A winter storm blanketed the middle of the country on Friday, leaving residents to dig their cars and front walkways out from beneath mountains of powder, while roads from the Great Lakes to Texas turned dangerously icy.
    tuaw.com — iPhone users are out of luck--along with any other AT&T Blackberry users, etc--as an Internet outage hits the central states
    So, sum total, a blizzard destroys our landscape, and makes it inhospitable, and ultimately destroys our communication vectors - again. Is this any surprise? Are you reading this shit? Is anyone else piecing these headlines together day after day and realizing we've fucked our planet in such a huge way that we're up shit's creek without a paddle, and doing nothing at all to stop it?
    So, I'm left to think a few people do not understand how global warming actually works. Sun hits the planet, CO2 gets trapped, ice MELTS, this causes MORE WATER to be released into the atmosphere. When this water is released it COMES DOWN IN THE FORM OF PRECIPITATION!!!
    That means HUGE RAINS AND HUGE SNOW.
    And no one cares for the most part, which annoys me greatly. Even I still drive an SUV, mainly b/c getting a new car is not a financial option. One of the many longterm things for me to fix for sure...

Least the house is clean

    Yeah, so at least my apartment is fairly spotless now. It took some work, but I've got this place pretty straightened up. Laundry, dishes, bathroom, etc, etc, etc, chores ad-infinity are all complete.  
    I'm trying really hard to understand what is it that made me want to go through this cleaning phase really. It doesn't make much sense to me. I usually am not this efficient. Today though - I got all my shit done in a matter of hours. I woke up at 9AM and started working at laundry, and from there reading, and from there more writing. I would love to capture this day in a bottle and market it if I could. I've gotten a lot of crap done on a day where I'm usually a lazy as shit bastard. Which has been happening a lot less.
    A friend of mine clued me in that it might be because I'm getting older, but I don't think I'm that old necessarily. I'm only twenty-six, and yet, it is a long, long distance from where I was - I don't feel it has made a huge difference. My attitudes are changing regarding a bundle of things, but my initial mental states are somewhat founded as I was ten years ago. I read over my writings and I understood a part of me that is the same now, but just more progressed. I think what annoys me the most is all the little things - knowledge - the bits and pieces you wished came only sooner.
    If I could go back and change a handful of things would I? Would I make different choices than I had if I knew a select bundle of things? I wonder. I tend to say no, but at the same time I tend to think I could be more right now than me sitting in a chair pondering what if's and instead working on what are's.
    Least the house is clean though...