A Green Life

A few weeks ago we came home from San Diego after only being gone for a few days and discovered that someone had taken our garbage can.  The city wants to charge us $60 for a new one.  It hit me below the belt because it made me think that I do take it for granted.  Trash that is.  We normally just save soda cans and soda bottles and give them to the dumpster divers but we decided to start recycling them for ourselves.

I took it a step further though and instead of just soda bottles and cans I'd look at the back of every container we buy and those cans that food come in are recyclable too and so are milk containers.  Paper can also be recycled.  I set up 2 paper bags with the cans (1 bag for each type of can) and I'm going to set up another bag for shredded paper which I am now going to start shredding the mail along with junk mail and even bad ideas that I've printed.  I have so much paper just sitting around in notebooks that have absolutely no purpose anymore so those will be shredded straight away.

I've also become green when I shower.  When you live in a trailer or if go camping and have one of those hanging bags of water for showers you have to use the least you can use so you have enough water for yourself and others so you get wet, turn off the hose, lather your hair and body then turn the hose back on to rinse off.  Well, I've started doing that at home.  I don't know exactly how many gallons of water I am saving but I bet you it's a lot.

I started riding my bike for exercise, not to get anywhere in particular but so I can lose weight and so that's good that I'm doing that but it really serves no green purpose for me.  But it's at least a statement.

And we do have to drive our car to the recycling center just to recycle all this stuff.  I can't carry bags of cans, bottles and tied up newspaper and bags of shredded paper on a bike so we have no other choice.  I feel I'm at least helping.

Below are pictures of my cans bags and a trash bag of bottles which is a new bag so it only has a couple bottles but you get the idea.

Spam

I just love spam.  I much prefer it after I've fried it in the skillet so it's a little greasy and it's a little scorched.  Although it cooks good in a toaster oven as well.  Then I put mayo on 2 slices of bread and eat it like a sandwich.

The spam that I do hate is the ones that come with links and gibberish in the form of comments on my blog.  Although I do appreciate the fact that someone out there took the time to look at my blog, I think... or maybe it was a bot who found my blog site and started posting junk.  I don't know.  All I know is I much prefer it in the form of a sammich.

Light System

I checked the tracking today from USPS for my light system for my bike and it was brought there to the post office on Monday but they didn't ship it out until today.  So basically they sat on it for 2 days.  That's fine though because it did say 2 to 9 days and it is the post office and not UPS or something so I don't expect it right away.  I am actually glad it isn't going to be here tomorrow because we both have doctors appointments tomorrow.  Chip is going in to find out what the new tests for his diabetes will be.  I'm afraid that it might come while we aren't there and they are going to leave it to get stolen.  So, hopefully I'll get it Friday or Saturday instead.

Lego Batman

I'm unable to play Lego Batman on my PSP too often because my hands get numb so fast.  I usually play it during the commercials of my shows then turn it off (sleep mode) when the show comes back on.  This way I can play it and wont get numb because I'm only playing it for 2 minutes at a time.  It is frustrating though that I can't play it for hours at a time lol.  It's a fun game.

Laptop upgrades

I was thinking, since I don't have to buy a new light for my bike for $50 that I might look to see how much a new laptop hard drive would be for my old Dell Inspiron 1100 and what do you know? they cost $50 for 160gb.  I also found 1GB ram for only $30.  I'm seriously thinking about getting the hard drive but then wait until next month for the memory.  I really want to upgrade my laptop because it's soooooo slow and it never has any space for anything.  It's only a 20GB hard drive and with windows installed and nothing else there is only 8GB available for programs and some of the programs I have take up a lot of space.  I'd also like to install EQ on there and I can't because there is no space for it and with only 256mb of ram it's not fast enough for EQ.

Mini Pump

When I got my Dell DJ battery, pump and bike frame bag in the mail on the same day I blogged about how none of them were the right size, the mini pump was the right size, it's just that the gauge wasn't working right.

Well, last night I was pumping some air into my tires and I was looking at the numbers on the gauge.  I was thinking that the needle was going to up a lot, near the red but that wasn't the case at all.  The number 20 is like really close to where the needle starts and I only need to put in 20.7 psi and the needle was at the 20 mark.  I thought I had to make the needle go near wh ere the red was lol.  I guess I was wrong, way wrong and the pump does what it is supposed to do.  Thank goodness.