Long rambling post

Most excellent weekend. Not only was it finally SUNNY and BRUTALLY HOT, which is exactly the way I like it, but for Allan and Lisa's birthday a bunch of us went to the the Thirsty Duck and drank beer for something like 3 hours, before going to the Pogue and where the hot frontman for the band loved us because we shared his taste in cover songs. Then at Pacifico JennJenn was supposed to meet her loverboy but she ran into this Hottie McHotness from grad night and pawned him off on Lisa (who was more than happy to take him off her hands). Crazy antics all around.

Sunday night was an even wilder party, with the family throwing a surprise party for my grandmother (she was NOT surprised) where everybody ate KFC and I gagged and my grandmother ate lobster and I looked straight at my pasta salad so that I wouldn't hurl. Even when I wasn't a tofu head I thought lobster was icky.

Ok now I'm shuddering. Happy thoughts anyone? Still trying to figure out how to get to Rollo Bay for the festival.

And Adam's meeting my parents tonight. My parents have been nagging about it and I know that they'll feel much better about me shacking up with him while his roomates are away, if they actually know who he is. So Mom's first question was, "Does he eat meat?" I swear she actually grinned when I said yes. Silly Mom. So she's making him steak and I cut a deal with him...I won't make faces at him while he eats cow, and I get to pick the movie we watch tonight. This is very important because we have very different taste in movies. We can agree on stuff like Rain Man and Spirited Away...but then he'll make me watch crap like Titus which was HORRIBLE. Ok, let's watch people do awful things to other people and then people do bad things back and then everybody is dead. The end. So, I get to choose today. I pick Madagascar. Funny animals that talk. Aaaand, end of tangent.

My brother is also moving in for the summer because he has a job in the city. My baby brother is now 18 and is getting a tatoo. It's sick and wrong. He's too young to be a legal adult, and he will always be too young.

Interesting article in the Chronicle Herald today about tidal power. This used to be a really questionable form of energy production because it required putting dams in place that messed with marine ecology and all that jazz. Now apparently there has been success with a model that is basically like an upside-down wind turbine in the water. Water is more effective at pushing the blades so they can be smaller than air turbines but still produce the same amount of energy, and they're slow-moving enough to have a minimal impact on mobile marine wildlife. It's finally beginning to be recognized that the answer to the energy problem is probably NOT huge plants, but rather a diversity of smaller local, green options. Which is interesting, because I read last week or whenever that Candu reactors are being largely rejected by the international community in favour of higher-output reactors, even though Candus are meltdown-proof and apparently a really high-quality power plant. Nuclear power is sketchy, with the nuclear waste issue and all, but they're now being largely paraded as the only answer to the global warming issue...and global warming is pretty sketchy, too. I know there are questions being raised about it, and it's all very confusing. Selene says she has an edition of Mother Jones about how most of the climate-change dissentors in the scientific community are being subversively paid by Exxon Mobil or something? I don't like to blindly believe everything put out by the leftist/environmental movement, but Exxon Mobil is sketchy, too. So who the hell knows what to believe? Anyway, I'm a huge believer in energy conservation and green (non-nuclear) energy, but it seems very likely that those can only take us so far... and when weighing the evils between a dependence on fossil fuels and the nuclear sketchiness, then hey, small nuclear power plants as part of a diversified clean energy program just might come out on top. Comments?