A few months ago I requested trees on NYC’s 311 app for the empty pits outside this building that have been accumulating trash and dog poop, for years, it seems.

And this morning I saw that they were spruced up and there were young elms in them!

This is exactly how the government is supposed to work! By the people and for the people.

Keeping a sharp eye on the environment from space

astrofeed:

via Space Exploration News – Space News, Space Exploration, Space Science, Earth Sciences

some thoughtful bureaucrat in Obama’s or Bush’s administration, whose name we will probably never know, considered a possibility that NASA’s involvement in climate science could be derailed by a future corrupt anti-science government, and thoughtfully ensured that these get completed and launched while a normal administration is still in office, and that NOAA is involved, too.

Just wanted to express appreciation for him or her.

Keeping a sharp eye on the environment from space

No one had the time for grocery shopping while I was gone (because we live too bloody far now), so no more food at home, and I had to drive to the coop to bring the large backpack full of and $180 worth of food and get to sbed after 11.

whatever sleep reserve I accumulated that weekend in London is now gone gone gone since L was up at 5 and ready to rumble and he has so much energy !

I am staring at the screen and I have a call in ½ hour and I whatever brain cycles I have left are all being spent on simply keeping my eyes open – and coffee does nothing for me now!