Rants/Raves & Miscellaneous B.S.

caldwell id 12/18

2004-12-18T01:37:00.000-05:00

whew...never enough time....promise updates coming later....miles to go before we sleep.
WB

12/12/04 Nevada

2004-12-12T01:56:00.000-05:00

Wow, has it been since Dec 4th already. I sure have been busy. I have been back and forth across the country and not much other than that. Lets see...lately...Columbus OH, Baltimore MD, Millville NJ, and now I am sitting in Nevada. The last few days of sunsets have been incredible. The pictures dont do them justice really...but I try. Imagine the sky looking like it is on fire with flames twisting and turning every which way. Thats what the last few have looked like....especially across WY, UT, and NV. Watched a little of the meteor shower tonight in the pitch black Nevada desert. Man....you sure can see forever.

12/2 Indiana

2004-12-02T17:28:00.000-05:00

Headed over to near Columbus OH....be there in a few hours

11/29/04

2004-11-29T18:18:00.000-05:00

Been out in L.A. over thanksgiving..... *note to self* Never move to L.A. I'll spare the details.....headed over to Pennsylvania again....I15 and I40. 24 days til I get some R&R.
WB

*poof*

Amarillo TX 11/21

2004-11-21T13:19:00.000-05:00

Well, I'm in Amarillo for the moment. Just reading the ole WWW and checkin email.

Saw an interesting article posted on "smart dust" .........
Check it out here

Road Tripppin - Ohio

2004-11-19T15:56:00.000-05:00

Well, I delivered over in Queens, NY the other day. Now I have picked up the next one and delivered into Columbus, OH. Now, I am on my way from Columbus, OH back out to Farmington NM, San Diego, Mira Loma, and N. Hollywood CA. After that....straight back to Columbus. Think I'll be having turkey dinner at Denny's this year. LOL. I'll make up for it at Christmas I suppose. :)

WB

In Ohio - Destined for NY

2004-11-15T19:24:00.000-05:00

Just passing thru....on the way to NY....in OH right now....mo lata
WB

Lets Rant on Bohemian Grove

2004-11-11T09:07:00.000-05:00

Stuff you might find interesting....

Bohemian Grove 1

Bohemian Grove 2

Dark Secrets of the Bohemian Grove

Photos..not Bohemian

In WA today.....Pasco

2004-11-10T22:56:00.000-05:00

The trip to Pasco was pretty...but a little foggy

I am in Pasco tonight at the Flying J...my favorite wifi haunt. Checking email and playing with the net toys....updating feeddemon, playing with the blog template, surfing other blogs.....not much interesting so far.....I'll keep ya posted. :P
WB

Salt Lake City, UT 11/8/04 and 11/09/04

2004-11-09T13:10:00.000-05:00

Spent a few hours cruising around salt lake on the public transit system there. Lot's of interesting people...nuff said.

Am in Ogden UT today at the flying J....my windshield wiper went to pieces in the rain today. Stopped for a replacement and to catch up on the internet....love my wifi connection. Bought an external XM radio antenna. We will see if it reduces the fadeouts.

Gotta run...headed for Pasco, WA today.

WB

Ah screw it - I'll upload it anyway. LOL

2004-11-06T19:12:00.000-05:00

I still am not done with the redesign...i just dont have the time to make it right then flip the switch...so its just going to have to be a work in progress.....its a little messy now....but it will get there.

In nebraska tonight....Omaha at the moment....need to boogie down the road for another hour after I get my internet junk done real quick. Gotta cross the chicken coop tonight so I am where I need to be. Wish this truckstop was about an hour on down the road....but that is how it goes.

Headed over to Salt Lake City and then on to Washington State. Should be another pretty ride through Utah tommorow....hopefully some good photo opportunities.

Mo Lata

Pennsylvania - 11/01/04

2004-11-01T21:04:00.000-05:00

Well, I am camped out in Pennsylvania tonite. Reading my newsfeeds on feeddemon and posting a few stragglers for pictures. Check out the new pictures HERE.

I had previously planned to get a little more creative with the blog...change the template a little....think I will get going with that project again. Gonna keep it short and sweet tonite. Need some downtime. I have been rolling pretty steady for the last couple of days. Delivering early in CT tommorow, picking up at Hartford again headed for Columbus.

WB

Traveling I-80/81 today over to CT

2004-11-01T07:29:00.000-05:00

Traveling on I-80/81 today....rainy....chicago traffic.....yuck

Your learning link for today

2004-10-31T23:14:00.000-05:00

An Atlas of the web (geography, etc)

Pretty kewl custom blog

2004-10-31T23:08:00.000-05:00

.:: close the world, open the next ::.

Ok Ok...here's some bloggage for you 10/31/04

2004-10-31T01:32:00.000-05:00

Yes, it has been a while. It seems exponentially harder to get the time to update this blog regularly. Lots of stories....Death on the highway, CB characters....I even saw 3 escaped horses galluping (sp?) down the highway not too long back.

Been in Los Angeles this week. If you ever want authentic latin food you will find it in East L.A.
The menu was in spanish only. What a trip. Seems that the local gangs around L.A. even 60 miles out in San Bernadino have started assasinating the local police. What a crazy world we live in. So far 3 officers in the area have been killed this year. Not to mention I had a stop a mile south of Compton in the middle of the night. Giddyup.

On a brighter note, I did manage to escape the city of angels and find my way into the serene backcountry along I15 and I70. The ride through the desert was the standard fare this time. Nothing too unusual there. On the other hand, I did travel I70 through Utah into Colorado to Denver....straight through the snowcapped mountains famous for ski resorts (Vail, etc). The ride through Utah was awesome...check out the pictures on my http://wanderingbloggerpix.blogspot.com picture site.

Hey! Been a while

2004-09-24T11:15:00.000-04:00

Yes, it has been a while since my last update.....been doing hurricane support this month down in florida. Talk about a mess....uploading pictures to the site soon.

Long time since update

2004-08-10T21:24:00.000-04:00

Haven't really had alot of access to internet this time out. Been all over. In West Memphis, AR tonight. Pimps, whores, drug dealers, drug users, thieves, scallywags, and pollywags, and a whole host of assorted characters living here at the flying hook tonight. This is probably one of the most notorious truckstops around. I can only imagine who will be knockin on the window tonight. Sheesh. The cops are down the street with guns drawn on somebody. Paint your own picture. Goodnight.
WB

Hometime never long enough

2004-07-20T01:16:00.000-04:00

Well, I made it to GA via chicago for a few days. Hometime is almost over. I'll be heading back to the truck up in N. GA in the wee hours of 7/20 and dispatched by noon. It seems there is never enough hometime when it happens. I did manage to get a few things done but not everything I had hoped. After I washed clothes and caught up with a few people time sort of slipped away. Bought a new external DVD writer so I can back up my laptop on a few dvd's instead of 16+ CDRW's. I really need to purchase a nice image program. Been using acronis true image demo version to get by. I deleted my linux partitions over the weekend and rewrote my MBR so I didn't have to choose the grub boot options every time I boot the laptop. Downloaded a few fresh debian sarge cd's to play with but didnt have enough time to get em all. So I will probably end up just loading a variant of Knoppix (Morphix) for the time being. I need to find a good wifi card that uses the orinoco or prism II based chipsets for linux somewhere. If I had a little more time......seems to be a theme. Anyway....time to hit the road again.

For those of you who are not aware of linux or the tools available with it go download the morphix ISO (cd image) and burn it. It writes nothing to your hard disk and you can see one of the options besides windows.

download morphix images at
http://www.morphix.org/modules/sections/index.php?op=viewarticle&artid=15

make sure you dont just copy the file to a cd....u gotta burn an image with that .iso file!!! :)

Trying to get home for a few days 7/11/04 - IA/IL border

2004-07-11T19:55:00.000-04:00

Well...it has been an unbelievable series of events to occur in the last week and a half or so. Lets recap...read on you will be amazed that all of this occurs in this short time frame.

Wisconsin to Vancouver
- Tornado in Wisconsin where I was at
- Kill my battery in Seattle trying not to get hit in parking lot (parking lights left on). Service call.
- Get to Canadian border and they open up the trailer and search my cab (delaying me 4 hours or so)

Vancouver to Oregon
- Get the wrong load loading on the coast in Oregon. Lucky it went to the same town. Found out when I got to the wrong location in Sacramento.

Sacramento back to Oregon
- Kill my battery again trying to conserve fuel as I wait to be dispatched. Service Call.

Deadheaded back to Sacramento area for a load to IL

Sacramento to Chicago Area
- Truck dies on Donner Pass due to coolant temp. Pops the reservoir and all fluid drains out. Service call.

- Overheats like 10 more times after that on the way to chicago...pulled over in time. Just had to wait to cool. No service calls for these.

- Trailer tire blows out and shreds to pieces. Several more hours of wait getting new trailer tire at Truck Stop 15 miles down road.

Meanwhile....supposed to have been back home Friday AM. Its Sunday PM and I deliver tommorow AM around chicago.

Good thing I have a sense of humor. If you see a trucker on the side of the road laughing hysterically like some crazed lunatic then you have undoubtedly run across me in my travels.

Can't believe with all that has happened over a week and a half or so that I ran across free wireless internet at this truck stop at Iowa/Illinois border.

More pics to come soon and updates to the blog format as soon as I get a little time to sit down and seriously hash out a few blips at home.

WB

Went to Oregon...back in california again 7/7/04

2004-07-07T17:27:00.000-04:00

Well, went to Oregon...back in Sacramento CA again....actually Lodi CA at the moment. They are trying to send me back up to Woodburn OR again. It's miles, but I did request some hometime.....been that kinda week. Stay tuned for some exciting updates to the Blog. I have been working on a template to spice up the presentation a little. Also, got some more pics to upload. Not enough time now. Catch 'em lata.

ok ok i know the pix on the pix page are big

2004-07-02T23:38:00.000-04:00

I need time to edit and cut them down...gimme a break :P I got a few done.

Headed to Stockton, CA 6/30 and 7/1

2004-07-02T22:21:00.000-04:00

It is a nice ride down I-5 South to California (although slow). Lots of pretty landscape that doesn’t try to run away when you want to take a picture. Long steep grades in southern Oregon and Northern California. Grants Pass and going by Mt. Shasta was pretty exciting. I smoked the brakes once and ended up stopping on top of one of the grades over on the shoulder. Didn’t want to catch fire to 40,000 lbs of paper. That wouldn’t be good. More pictures coming. Destined for Stockton, CA.

Oregon 6/29

2004-07-02T22:20:00.000-04:00

I really love Oregon. Especially the Pacific Coast Highway. I have visited there before and was excited to return. Got to drive my rig right along the ocean edge for a little way over to Toledo OR if you are following on the map. In Oregon they have giant ferns and firs and giant everything. Absolutely beautiful. Words cannot describe. Posting pics soon. As for my adventure in Oregon, I did get busted at the scalehouse (chicken coop) for not having the right permit to operate in Oregon. Lucky for me the DOT bear was in a good mood. She must have eaten already because I got out of there without a scrape. I sure was a little uneasy about hauling wood products from the great state of Oregon. Some of those tree huggers can be a little testy. I just did the speed limit (30 mph on the coast and 55 on the interstate) and got through it. Took some pics. Posting ‘em later.

Vancouver, British Columbia 6/28 and 6/29

2004-07-02T22:19:00.000-04:00

Spent the night just outside Seattle WA at snowqualmie. Wow. Sure it beautiful there. On my way to Vancouver BC. Got a pic of the space needle. The traffic sucks in the city. On the way into Vancouver I got searched at customs. They opened my trailer and rummaged through the cab of my truck for about two hours (after waiting another two) looking for “contraband.” Now these communists, I mean customs agents, consider pocket knives, mace, and a multitude of other things to be evil. So…..My feeling on Canada….nice to visit…pretty…wouldn’t want to live there. Took some pictures. Posting them soon.

Montana 6/26 and 6/27

2004-07-02T22:04:00.000-04:00

Well it sure was another beautiful ride through Montana. I have to say that I am quite fond of I90 West of Billings, MO. Montana is a wild and scenic place. Throughout Montana I saw eagles, buffalo (though not wild), antelope, and deer. Missed some great photos of these animals because I gotta keep rolling most of the time. Occasionally, I do take a minute to pull over and snap a picture or two along the way. I have found that stationary targets such as mountains are the most cooperative. :P I usually try to get a feel for the local food whenever I get the chance so I pulled up a seat in a little diner and had breakfast. If you conjure up a country setting full of cowboy hats and lively conversation that will about sum it up. I overheard one conversation about a buffalo falling off of a cliff and onto a passing car. Ouch! I would have paid money for that picture. Anyway. I did snap some great photos and as always will upload them when I get the chance. I haven’t had internet quite some time now. I am actually writing this offline to post for later.

Fargo, North Dakota 06/25/04 (On my way to Vancouver BC)

2004-06-25T23:53:00.000-04:00

Sitting in a Flying J in Fargo, ND right now jotting down a few blogs. Think I'll see about getting a few pics over on the WanderingBloggerPix page.
I'm heading over to (just north of) Vancouver BC. It's a pretty ride through Montana tommorow, but it sure is long. I have traveled I94 through here before. It's pretty...but takes forever it seems. More later.
Joe

OshKosh Wisconsin 06/23/04 (AFTER the tornado)

2004-06-25T23:37:00.000-04:00

So i am sitting in my truck and it starts rocking back and forth. Turns out i was smack dab in the middle of several strong tornados and it was too late to go inside. Riding out this kind of weather in a truck will definitely get the adrenaline pumping when those tornado sirens are going off and all hell is breaking loose outside for your viewing pleasure. I snapped a few very bad photos of the sky afterwards. The sky was bright orange where it wasnt pitch black. A very definite line in the sky. Very odd looking. I didnt get any good pics of the thunderhead or the actual rotating tornado. I did manage to capture some video of right before the storm. I will have to get all this posted later on. I just wanted to update the blog with my latest hair raising (if I had any) experience. This was no south ga baby tornado. It was supposedly an F3 on the rating scale. I don't know the validity of this statement but I know it picked up a tractor trailer rig and put it upside down in the median, ripped up a local prison, blew apart some houses and house trailers (no surprise there) and generally caused havoc.
Pictures coming soon.

OshKosh Wisconsin 06/23/04

2004-06-25T23:29:00.000-04:00

Well I wrote this stuff BEFORE the tornado hit so I will post it first...

Well, I am in sitting at a truckstop in Oshkosh bygosh Wisconsin. Another trucker was running a little ahead of me and mentioned that there was a truck stop here with pretty good grub. I decided to stop and have something to eat and chat with this fellow trucker. Well, he had a few interesting stories to tell about life on the farm in Minnesota and I in turn shared some of my South GA stories of life on the farm by proxy. You see, I don’t live on a farm, but I have family who actually do live on a farm. Occasionally, I visit the farm and have an interesting story to tell afterwards. But I digress. For my meal, I chose the pot roast, mashed potatoes w/gravy, and a concoction they called cheesy fiesta. The cheesy fiesta was quite tasty but the pot roast was a little below average.

As I have said before, you meet all kinds in these truck stops. Before I could even park my rig, some bright eyed asian girl is running over to my truck carrying something. Now everyone has a story out here. I absolutely HAVE to hear this one. So she tells me in her best broken English that she is a missionary from Mongolia. Ok. “What’cha sellin?” I ask. She stands at full attention straight up in one of those asian courtesy motions and starts rocking back and forth and starts her presentation. All the while patiently answering my questions.

Me: You live in Wisconsin?!?
Her: New Yoyk.
Me: New York?!
Me: You say you are a missionary?
Her: I in school.
Me: How long you been in the states?
Her: One year ereven munfs. I go back to mongoria in one munf. Serring magnets.
Her: Mo-nee goes to AIDS foundation. You rook at magnets?

Then she tries to stick one of these magnets on my truck to show me, but it is fiberglass.

Me: (laughing) it’s fiberglass

So I give this missionary girl ten bucks and tell her to keep the magnet. But get this, when I give her some money. She breaks out with a muchos gracias. Fank u vewy much. Now I figure this girl is either speaking so many languages that she is confused or I have just been had. Either way, it was an amusing moment that was worth the ten bucks.

Houston TX - 06/20/04

2004-06-20T17:52:00.000-04:00

Yep, Spent the night in houston. Headed to Appleton Wisconsin. Loaded up with heavy paper too. Had to end up sliding the fifth wheel all the way to the front to be legal on all my axles. Max you can have is 12000 lbs on front steer tires, 34000 lbs on drives, and 34000 on rear tandems. I finally worked with it (in a terrible lighting/rain storm) and got it to 11,540 lbs on steers, 33580 on drives, 33180 on tandems. Thought I would never get it right. Two different places to slide. The fifth wheel slides forward and back and so do the rear tandems.

Now the company is pushing me to run at all hours of the night to make an impossible deadline. They jerked me around so much last week they screwed up my hours. Now I gotta play super sleuth and run super weird hours to let some drop off at midnite each day and not drive too many to add back to them. *sigh* I am too poor to pay the fines. They can repower it if they don't like my timing. Besides, if someone runs under me or something horrible as that...yes, it does happen....I will be subject to scrutiny with a rubber glove and a microscope. That log book will cook me good if it isn't legal. With all the wrecks I see, I don't need that kind of headache.

More later...I need to roll. Had to gripe a minute.

Houston, Texas - 06/19/04

2004-06-19T20:24:00.000-04:00

Delivering in Houston tonite. Just stopped off to take a break. Been driving since about 10:00am and only stopped for 15 minutes so far. Getting time to roll again. Got a preplan. Looks like Wisconsin next. Cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeez. Will probably end up spending the night in the Houston this evening. Not much to comment on yet. Gotta get going to my destination. If the wheels arent turning i'm not earning. Update coming soon.

Austell GA – 6/17/04

2004-06-19T20:21:00.000-04:00

I must be in some strange twilight zone this afternoon. I bring this load down from New York to Carnesville GA only to find this load is supposed to be going to TX. So here I sit in the dropyard waiting on another stranger to show up and get my day going again. Earlier today there was a glimmer of hope that my repower had arrived. But alas, my hopes were dashed when I walked over to this stranger’s truck and asked if they had my new trailer. The woman, and I use the term with quite a bit of apprehension, turned around, wiped something from her mustache, and mutters under her breath that her trailer is empty. My hopes of finding my new trailer were dashed all at the same time as I began to realize that this person (who might have actually been able to kick my butt) was probably once a man. I quickly diverted my eyes from the six foot tall man boobs before me in utter disgust as I raced back to the normalcy of my own tractor and wondered aloud (as soon as I was out of earshot) what planet this person came from. I immediately checked my GPS to see if I had been transported/abducted to another realm and was reassured that I had merely wandered into the twilight zone but was once again safe and sound back in the cab of my tractor.

Carnesville, GA - 06/16/04

2004-06-16T22:32:00.000-04:00

Going to deliver my load tommorow at suwanee ga. Catchin up on email n stuff

Mayberry, North Carolina 06/16/04

2004-06-16T22:31:00.000-04:00

I’m sitting here at a truck stop in Mayberry, North Carolina, inspiration for the TV show. I’ve got to deliver on the 17th to Suwanee, GA. Good to be headed back south again. Got me another “hooter shot” again today. Too funny. This time the owner of the hooters was a lady trucker. She whipped those puppies out for me and licked ‘em. LOL. Each day seems to be a little more surreal than the next. It’s all really strange. Everyone has a different destination and they scatter about at each intersection of the highway. Some you chat with for a while on the CB and then one of you takes a turn. Some you wish would be going the other way seem to be hooked to your bumper and you just can’t shake ‘em.

Sidney Center, New York 6/15/04

2004-06-16T22:29:00.000-04:00

I arrived in New York safely in the late hours of 6/14/04. On my way here I passed someone in a big truck who didn’t quite make their destination. They didn’t quite make the turn on the exit ramp either. Rolled the rig right over. Gotta make sure you slow that thing down before you go whippin’ that wheel round. Took a picture. Will be posting it on my http://wanderingbloggerpix.blogspot.com/ blog.

It’s pretty here in the mountainous region of New York state. I have been through it quite a bit lately. Although it is still not as pretty as some of the other places in the states, it isn’t too bad. Not quite as pretty as the blue ridge mountains of NC. If they took out the people it would rank higher. The area is inhabited by a bunch of people who say they live in villages and vote for people like Hillary. Quite a few of them seem to be “village people” if you know what I mean. New York city is a different story. I have not lost anything in that crazy place.

Stranger Than Fiction

2004-06-13T10:46:00.000-04:00

Florida Man turns down millions of dollars for 160 acres of his land

Happy Fodders Day - uh, whenever it is

2004-06-13T08:29:00.000-04:00

Well, today is fathers day. If you haven't yet figured out what in the world to give yer pappy I got just the thing....and I bet he ain't got one. Yore daddy needs himself a jinuine buffalo member putter. I imagine that buffalo was a little confused when he woke up. Check it out.

Buffalo member putter link

Columbus, OH 6/12/04

2004-06-12T22:01:00.000-04:00

Been across IL, IN, and the bluegrass state today. Sitting just outside the loop at Columbus, OH. Just popped in to get some email. Making good time today. The trip wasn't really all that far and I had a little extra time to play with. I'll try to get a few pics for the WanderingBlogPix.Blogspot.com to keep it fresh sometime soon.

Going across Indiana I noticed a bunch of oil pumps in the cornfields. Kind of amusing to see that. Must be where they get corn oil. :P

Shelbyville KY 6/10/04

2004-06-10T23:38:00.000-04:00

Heading over to lexington in the am to drop my load. They have me preassigned to go over to IL and drop one in OH. Made it by the chicken coops without a hitch over the last 72 hr DOT inspection period. whew!

Ate at a cool little restaraunt in Minneapolis. The Ideal Diner in minneapolis.

Headed to Minneapolis 6/8/04

2004-06-10T23:37:00.000-04:00

Not much exciting stuff on 6/8 to speak of. I got out of Detroit with just a little trouble with construction. You sure do meet some characters out here on the road. Ran with a flatbedder from Texas today called MiddleMan. Seemed to be pretty cool.

The Wisconsin countryside has rolling hills. Pretty country, but I dont think I'd wanna live here. They must have deer everywhere because they are all over the side of the road dead. They are supposedly doing some 72 hour D.O.T. bigtime inspection. Everyone is talking on the radio about it. I haven't got hassled with it yet. Of course the 72 hours isnt over yet.

Nothing too much to really report or write about. I look forward to hooking up to the net and getting some email and stuff. Can't always be connected the way I do it. Cost too much to get the net on the phone for the puter. Besides, my phone service is so spotty lately...hasnt worked in like 4 or 5 days. Need to check my coverage.

Detroit MI 06/07/04

2004-06-10T23:02:00.000-04:00

Well, I finally made it out of Canada June 7. What a mess getting through customs. First of all, the dept that is supposed to be expert at handling the paperwork issues for border crossing did not know how to handle this one. So I ended up waiting in line outside in the hot sun with about 75 other drivers. What a crock. Glad I had my passport with me. As I am standing in line some canadian know-it-all starts waxing poetic about his views on Bush and the War. I had to lay it on him that I was an American and what would the world be like if Gore were president? He kinda changed his tune after that.

I have managed to check out several of the great lakes while I was up here. Not much to them besides the fact they are big. Picked up up my load in Canada at Niagra Falls, ON but didn't see the falls. What a bummer. I spent the whole weekend in Canada and didnt see one thing that was even worth a picture. Oh well. There is always tommorow.

Sure am glad to be back in the states. Heading over to Minnesota. Not a whole lotta fun over there i am sure, but it sure beats spending an arm and a leg on food in canada. Converting currency sux. I guess the waitresses thought I was some kind of hero. Who wants to keep canadian change? I just donated it for tip.

Right now I am down for a rest period at the Detroiter truck stop in where else but Detroit, MI. I had what was reportedly meatloaf for dinner. Never seen meatloaf look quite that way. Yuck.

Outstanding facts on the middle east

2004-06-07T02:22:00.000-04:00

Click here for factsandlogic.org They have some really interesting reading. Found this website by and ad posted in the New York Times.

A kuwaiti man's diary (blog)

2004-06-07T01:12:00.000-04:00

http://kuwaitdiary.blogspot.com/

This is some pretty interesting reading.

2004-06-07T00:21:00.000-04:00

www.ReallySimpleSyndication.com

Yesterday Dave Winer launched Really Simple Syndication, a site devoted to helping non-tech users learn about RSS.

"Every publisher that supports RSS has to explain what it's about, and every one tells a different and incomplete story."

The above quote certainly hits the nail on the head. Once people use a feed reader such as FeedDemon, they know what it's all about - but it's a slow road to get to that point.

BTW, I'm sorry to see that the usual Atom vs. RSS comments have already started in this site. Get a clue, folks: this endless bickering is slowing the adoption of both formats.

2004-06-07T00:19:00.001-04:00

Why OPEC isn't to blame (USATODAY.com)

USATODAY.com - Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan does not work for the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). Nor does President Bush, Osama bin Laden or any of the main protagonists in the current tension in the Middle East. Yet their policies, or actions, play a critical role in the rollicking oil markets.

2004-06-07T00:19:00.000-04:00

Snake Causes Transformer Fire, Outage (AP)

AP - After avoiding power outages from recent storms, this community was plunged into darkness by a snake searching for a place to nap.

2004-06-07T00:16:00.000-04:00

Where can I find a complete list of names for all the troops killed in the Iraq war?

CNN offers an updated directory of coalition casualties. The directory lists the names, pictures, ages, units, hometowns, and casualty details of the soldiers "whose families have been notified of their deaths by each country's government."...

2004-06-07T00:04:00.000-04:00

106 - 05/31/04

Mediterranean by John Whittet

2004-06-06T23:35:00.000-04:00

Ronald Reagan Dies (washingtonpost.com)

washingtonpost.com - Ronald Wilson Reagan, 40th president of the United States, who transformed the Republican Party and substantially defined the terms of contemporary political debate during two momentous terms in office, died yesterday afternoon. He was 93.

2004-06-06T23:30:00.000-04:00

Forbidden Photos, Anyone?

Subway shooters to set their sights on underground camera ban

My other blog for pictures

2004-06-06T22:02:00.000-04:00

Check out wanderingbloggerpix.blogspot.com for pictures of some of my travels. The blog you are looking at I will use mostly for a little necessary ranting and raving on various topics. The picture taking will probably save my sanity. On with the rants....