Went to Spuds for Lunch.

     This is our Doberman, Mae, next to my son Carl (you can just see a knee), taken with his Iphone.

     This is a view from a robot they sent in to one of the failed reactors, or what was left of it, it has now been confirmed that parts of the fuel rods and reactor have been blasted more than 130km from the site.  The weird glitches are caused by radiation acting upon the cameras sensor.

     Listing to Radio Veronica from Amsterdam, Netherlands. It’s entertaining to hear familiar music in a different language, sometimes. Gotta get some sleep.  Dutch sounds like something is stuck in your throat.  Just got through re-attaching a button to my pants.

     Have WinAmp running in the background playing random tunes.  It just played Blue Angel by Roy Orbison.  That man sure had vocal range and made good use of it in that song.  Totally beautiful voice.  Shame he passed so early.  Song is so beautiful I want to sing along but I can’t hit at least three of those higher octaves.

     Three hours ago we had a magnitude six earthquake about 200 miles west of the Oregon coast near the 90 bend in the Juan De Fuca / Pacific Plate interface.  There were three 5+ magnitude quakes, in addition to this one, in the last 24 hours near this same area.  This subduction zone is what is known as the Cascadia fault.  The deeper parts of the subduction interface are semi-fluid and move with a slow creep but the shallower portions lock and release suddenly, and when they do, can generate anywhere from an eight to as high as ten magnitude Earthquake and given that when that fault moves, it changes the altitude of the land below the ocean, it is guaranteed to generate a tsunami.

     The media is saying these quakes aren’t related to the Cascadia fault, but given they are located right where the locked portion of the subduction zone is, I don’t see how they can say that other than flat-out lying.

     I got my voter registration card in the mail today.  I’m officially a citizen again.  A citizen denied his second amendment rights for life, but a citizen none-the-less.  And it’s not that my vote actually counts for much, it’s overrun by all the bought votes, but it’s the symbolism of the thing, not to be completely excluded from the process.