Wednesday Afternoon

Today was busy, and fairly productive. Three of my tenants have leases expiring in the next year, and all three will renew. That's a good thing, and makes my boss a happy camper.

The sun showed its face today, and consequently the temperature rose to 59 - higher than AccuHunch's guess of 57. That's a good thing, too. It has grown cloudy again, but there's a breeze, so all it well.

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The new router was worth the minor headaches. I can tell that my hard-wired connection is quicker, and my daughter's wireless set-up is almost twice as fast as before. Well worth the hundred bucks or so.

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Norm Olson* and Ray Southwell, formerly of the Michigan Militia, relocated to Nikiski, Alaska a few years ago. Apparently Olson's disappointed that only 20 people showed up at a recent rally where he wanted to talk about forming an Alaska militia. (* This is the guy who issued a press release blaming the Japanese for the Oklahoma City bombing.) Don't get me wrong; Alaska has lots of free-thinkers. He's as welcome to his opinion as anyone else.

He says we need to form a force now, to prepare for the violent aftermath of the coming economic collapse. Perhaps he doesn't know that we already have a state militia. The Alaska State Defense Force is a volunteer force, doing just fine & dandy without Outsiders telling us how to do it.

Most Alaskans are pretty independent already; it's why we're up here in the first place.

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It's estimated that the proposed natural gas pipeline - just the Alaska portion - would cost just this side of $4 Billion. Great. I guess we can burn coal for heat. There's enough coal in Alaska, much of it easy to reach, to keep the lights burning for hundreds of years.

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I should stop here. Younger Daughter has chicken & dumplings, and corn bread, just about ready for dinner. Yum.

'Bye!