Spring in Juneau!

Here are some photos from around Juneau from the last week:

I took Bruce the dog for a walk today and snapped this by Mendenhall River, fed by a glacier, behind the shopping mall...

This must be the most scenic Walmart in the country!

This is another shot from the Walmart parking lot:

After Walmart I went to the dump to recycle stuff. Here is the dump in Juneau:

Here is the snow in my backyard today, about three feet deep still...

Here is a shot of the terrain park at Eaglecrest Ski Area on Saturday. Gorgeous day, warm sun and cold snow. Cami and I went to have lunch and watch our (step)son Charlie snow boarding off of big jumps. That is him busting off of the jump in a cloud of snow.

After that Cami and I went to a sandy beach (the only one around) just south of town a couple of miles and saw this avalanche that came down a couple of weeks ago. That closed the road to Thane for a few days!

Anyway, there are a few shots of Juneau from the last week. Beautiful, no?

Rob

Delete Me First - an outstanding website

My twin brother David has been publishing a weekly blog since before there were blogs, more than ten years now.

It is called Delete Me First and here is the link: http://deletemefirstdave.blogspot.com/

He emailed them to everyone for many years, then created a blog and continues to publish every week.

Try the “follow this blog” feature. There is a comments section at the bottom of the blog. Feel
free to comment.

To subscribe or unsubscribe to the Delete Me First reminder list, send a blank email with “subscribe DMF” or “unsubscribe DMF” in the subject line to DaveSeward695@Yahoo.com

Happy bloggin'

Rob

Treatment for the disease of addiction!

Good news today on the front lines of the so-called war on drugs. Our leaders intend to emphasize treatment and prevention to reduce illegal drug use. Gil Kerlikowske will be the new drug czar. Read an article in the Washington Post about the appointment:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/11/AR2009031103567.html

Reduce demand for drugs, reduce the business of illegal drug suppliers. I would like to hear drug dealers saying stuff like "I can't stay in business, too many of my clients are going into treatment and getting recovery!"

We have known for a long time that the so-called "war on drugs" is not working:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123535114271444981.html

Too many of our nation's prisoners (more than half) are primarily addicts who suffer from the disease of addiction.

If we made chemo-therapy and radiation treatment illegal and cancer patients had to break the law to obtain treatment, would we lock them up and refuse to treat them too?

One freind of the new drug czar said this:

"If all we do is arrest people for drugs, we're missing the
opportunity to get involved in the beginning and take people out of
drugs. Gil gets that concept." San Jose, Calif., Police Chief Rob Davis

Makes sense to me, what do you think?

Cami drew my portrait today

Isn't this wonderful!

Kids Love Clowns

This was in the January New Yorker. Funny, what?

Bad Bank

I have been enjoying This American Life for a few months now, since my stepson clued me in to it.

This week they explained the banking problem so I finally understand it.

Check it out.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=375&date=02272009

I found these funny pictures on the web today.


http://www.shof.msrcsites.co.uk/pets.html

http://www.shof.msrcsites.co.uk/ii.html

http://www.shof.msrcsites.co.uk/dogtraining.html

If you haven't grown up by age 50, you don't have to.