View From the Bushes

After pictures were over last night (the photographer came out to my mother-in-law's house), I biked home. I debated for a long time whether I was going to bike at all, since I still have so much I want to do before GenCon, but I have sworn that this time no matter how busy I get (or how tired) that I'm not going to skip a day of riding. Of course, I'm only riding every other day so that makes it a little bit easier to not skip a day, so I rode. For once, there were no real hills on the route, and that in combination with what I hope is my increasing fitness level; for the first time I felt pretty good.

I finally got my heart rate monitor today, so hopefully that will make my rides more productive, more aerobic activity and less just beating my legs down. One of the problems with biking is that it has just been murder on my eyes of all things. I think it's sweat getting into them, but I wore a bandana last night and that didn't seem to help that much, so maybe it's something else. The air here isn't exactly known for it's humidity, so maybe it's just my eyes drying out. I'm not sure, but it's this more than the time or the tiredness from biking that's getting in the way of me getting other stuff done. I guess I could always go see a doctor rather than just tossing out wild guesses.

Finally, I'm not sure if you heard or not, but there was an accident at a Japanese nuclear power plant yesterday, which I think is a great example of the enormous bias towards nuclear power. People are calling it a nuclear accident even though nothing about the accident involved the actual radioactive material. Rather, a rusty cooling pipe burst, spewing boiling water everywhere. Now I'm sure that pipes carrying really hot water are not unique to a nuclear power plants, and I'm equally sure that if one of these other pipes had broken and killed the same number of people that it would barely make national news let alone international news. As an example of this bias I offer the following article.

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