last week paul butler called me to help out with something next wednesday night (which was tonight). i didn't fully understand what he was talking about, but when i saw bob and carolyn i told them to tell him i was in. i didn't really matter to me what i was agreeing to do since i knew if the butlers were gonna be there it would be fun, but also i trust paul and know that he wouldn't be asking me to do something ghastly. as it turns out, this evening we went door to door in the ritzy part of town asking for non-perishable food items for the hotel dieu hospital food drive. it was interesting, of course the houses are beautiful, but what was more interesting was the number of these home owners who were not very generous. i kind of wonder if the more wealthy people get the less generous they become. i heard a quote from anne frank recently that said "no one has ever become poor from giving". that has really stuck in my head and i won't forget it. anyway, when we were done our section of k-town, we took off to wendy's, when we were there i pointed out to carolyn that we'd ditched sarah & tara with no booster seat. eek! i wonder what ever became of them. i trust they are ok and carolyn will make it up to them with some cornless chili.
i think this weekend i will splurge and replace all the lights in my apartment with energy saver bulbs. whoa, will that be expensive? maybe i should start by replacing just my main lights. hm, if i buy 16 energy saver bulbs at 10 bux each, that's 160 bux!! hm, maybe they aren't THAT expensive, i haven't a clue the going rate of an energy saver bulb. anyone? anyone?
i got a piece of mail in my box today that i presume is for my new neighbour. get this... her last name is "knight". how funny is that!?!? no wonder the mail carrier got confused.
into the blue again.
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I think the bulbs are ~$5. But I'm not totally sure..
I picked up some super boots for James at the Rustle clothing center and guess whose name was incribed inside them? Isaac L. Now James has his hand me downs in a round about sort of way!
be careful with the buying of the energy saver bulbs. i find that some of them give me a crazy headache, so i opt for few lights rather than those things in important places. why don't you start with one or two and see how you like them? or buy them for the lights that are on a lot, but that you don't use for reading and stuff.
Mmmmmmmm cornless chili.
Myron says that energy saving bulbs have enough mercury in them to be quite toxic, so if you buy 'em don't break 'em!
1) happy birthday bud ;)
2) cool!
3) there's a new kind of energy saver light bulb that imitates the conventional bulb.
4) i could go for some chili, corny or cornless.
5) are they still toxic if i don't ingest them?
Not toxic at all unless you break it! And I don't know if all the bulbs have them. Stupid if they do really, because I'm sure mercury is much worse for the environment than all the energy that is saved.
Mercury can absorb through your skin into your bloodstream so it can be toxic even if you don't injest it.
Just don't break em! (And they do seem hard to break!)
it does seem like we always have to choose from a selection of evils.
so true man. so true.
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