21-IX-2009.
This is sunrise...
The school district has reduced the number of school buses. That is, they didn't sell the vehicles, they just fired some percentage of drivers or otherwise reduced the number of lines. Which means they put a few lines together, so Lena's line was attached to another one on the slower end. That is, she'd have to get up some 40 minutes earlier and would come home that much later. The other part of the passengers would stay with their own schedule, staying asleep longer and coming home sooner. And guess what, these guys are all in that affluent area, between the highway and the bay. That part where they didn't raze the forest but kept the trees and built between them. Tsk, tsk...
So we decided that I'll take her to school this year. Drive in the morning, drive in the afternoon. This started this monday or tuesday, or the next or previous - the old schedule held for a while, with some hiccups, but it worked more or less. Then it completely stopped and we got a new schedule.
From UA, one of these days, responding to Nick:
Therefore the only viable solution to global warming is nothing less than a large reduction in the planet's human population. If we do not begin a humane reduction through natural attrition Mother Nature shall find a way to reduce our population in a very very ugly way. The dialogue on this pressing issue must begin now.
How many proponents of this have committed suicide, or at least castrated themselves?
Planting thyme
These days we planted a couple of figs out front, assuming them to be pretty much coastal trees and considering that fresh figs can't be found (and "are nowhere to be" too, as the natives would say). Haven't eaten a fresh fig since... dunno, twenty years.
Lena is planting the thyme for her matricular work. The subject of it is comparison between four methods for extraction of thymol from it, and she's doing it from scratch, starting with seeds and ending in the chemical lab.
Mentions: Jelena Sredljević (Lena), Nick Greene, UbiquAgora (UA), in serbian