It's thundering big time here right now, it's awesome. I love thunderstorms and the sounds of pouring rain. We hadn't gotten rain in a few weeks and we had an all day pour-fest here on Saturday and now it's at it again. Good for the earth I suppose. I learned to appreciate rain two summers ago when the first week of camp it rained and rained and the lake rose nearly 3 feet. That was crazy.
I was listening to NPR on my way back from the market this morning and they were interviewing a guy who is working for a company working to bring inexpensive high speed internet to third world countries. Now my first thought was "really, do they need high speed internet there, what about food, medicine, and clean drinking water first?" But then he acknowledged that high speed internet was not the answer to all problems but these countries also needed better communication tools overall and better means of transport, not one mention of food, medicine, and clean drinking water. Now I don't deny that third world countries need better means of transport and better communication tools but high speed internet... really? I can just picture it now, a small village in the Congo where people still live in fear of militia attacks and constantly deal with dysentery because of unclean drinking water and AIDs in still unchecked, but hey, at least they can watch YouTube and surf for porn, now how's that for progress?!
School starts up again in less than a week. Can't decide if I am excited or not. I will keep you updated.
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Okay, number one /on the way back from market???
Good for you.
But you posted this at 7:57 am. What time did you get up!!!!
After leaving you a voicemail last night about this, I was still thinking about it.
With it being the political season, what if this was a campaign promise in the same vein of, "charity starts at home." High speed internet to the far corners of Appalachia, or, perhaps I shouldn't say it to avoid offending the leftists, Alaska. I'm pretty sure we'd consider it to be pretty ridiculous.
So, again, I agree with you wholeheartedly.
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