Valentines

A really long day. Found I'd lost my glasses. Not that you all would know I even wear them now. Future blip for sure. Late for work. Short-staffed. Home for lunch and still no glasses. Back to work. Nothing accomplished. Home from work. Found glasses. Ate dinner. Remembered to make the 100 things hat with my son. Figured out why it's a bad idea to procrastinate. Tomorrow will be better. It won't be a Monday.

Remember Jed? Well Jed writes me things here and there, and most of the time I find his written work to be a tough read....especially when brought to me on tiny papers after he's had a beer or two. Well recently Jed has really focused on getting the word out on a couple things: pesticides and recycling hand towels.

His endeavorer to bring awareness to our local town regarding non-organic potatoes and mothers of fetal children has been very successful. He's managed to get our local Safeway to finally carry organic potatoes and hopes to get more stores carrying them also. Well done!

He is also passionate about recycling and has the most amazing ideas on how to make this earth more reusable. He's probably one of the first to ever think of recycling, as he was passionate even in the 60's and 70's. Anyways, I'd like to share with you what he wrote. He asked me today if it was "blog-worthy," and I said it was as long as I could take his photo.

I kept the photo true to Jed. Not really much processing. Just some color correction from the dreaded amber light outside the building. It was pouring small animals from the sky, so we couldn't get much farther out from the cover the building. I have not edited his writing below much. I did throw in a couple of punctuation corrections just for the ease of reading, but you'll see that it flows just like he is speaking. I didn't want to change that part.

ACCESS TO EVERY BOOK EVER WRITTEN ON EARTH IN HARD COPY...IN...YOUR...HAND, as fast as checking out a library book. A universal library so to speak, and ALL the books available in their original language AND, or translated into whatever language you wish instantly!! Cool huh?

Now how do we do it? One way we could is to take a big chunk o' the garbage that is thrown away (31% of which is paper that is burned or S-canned forever) and put it back in the recycle loop (the loop is good!). For example, the big problem in recycling is separating this from that, and cast iron pipe from a brass valve...this takes time and labor...so each can go into the correct melting pot, or plastic from aluminum cans and glass containers. Separation is costly..."so"...(again with the so!, so you say) so...(sorry...use it like a ponder comma you know?)

Anyway where the heck was I? Oh waste paper - paper in bathrooms, in large institutions, computer campuses, large business concerns, super markets, malls...the list just goes on & on...this paper (hand paper, 'towel' paper) is in the most part already separated! Yet we do away with it forever, if not for good.

SOLAR POWERED TRASH COMPACTORS (in use at Iowa State University & University of Northern Iowa), as well as several other places about our big U.S. burg. Though these solar powered trash compactors are not especially made for bathroom paper (they are for regular campus trash - and pay for their cost in short order) we could with great ease make these units to compact the millions of tons of this paper we throw away and then we could take this paper, recycle it and have it available at all libraries for instant printing, for any book you want (you could put a year or so grace period on new books so it wouldn't hurt the "I need the new Stephen King book today!" market) and not use color or color plates (glossy photos) so you would have a -not all that fancy-book...but one you could write in, and underline 'stuff n' junk' in, and if and when ya got your fill of it, you could recycle it and get another!

... knowledgeable looping, so to say...sounds a bit 'loopy' but just praps' perhaps not eh?

Any book from any time, any language, any place, in any size library from a beautiful lil' ol' country library to the great San Diego/New York public size libraries.

...shall we?

Author: Jed