No human eye had not yet been able to admire Gkampourtsef Mountains of Antarctica, a towering mountain range in length 1200 km, which remains buried beneath a mile of ice. Flying radar now offer the first detailed images, 52 years after the discovery of the mountain by the Russian explorer Grigory Gkampourtsef. All he saw was the Gkampourtsef minimum peaks of 2400 meters, which protrude from the surface of the white continent. The data presented now an international research team revealed ancient riverbeds and valleys and even lakes of liquid water, sealed under the eternal glacier. Flying radar mission swept an area of mountains exceeding the scope of the State of New York.

In my earlier post I made fun of being lost…but for some reason, being lost, and the fear of being lost is a big thing to me. Especially if I’m by myself. I’m not a stupid woman…and I’m not the brightest candle in the window either. But when it comes to finding somewhere…or having to reverse directions to find my way back out. I’m a goner. I can not find my car in a parking lot. Thank God for the alarm button.The main reason I quit consulting was this abnormal fear of being lost. One of my last trips when I was consulting was to western Michigan. I had to leave home at 3:30am to be there for a 7am meeting. I followed my bosses directions (never trust a woman) to the letter. I took the number exit she told me and went 3 miles left…just like she said. There was a cornfield on both sides of the road…nothing else and no reception on the cell phone. Obviously I survived it.So by the time I made it to the 23rd floor this morning…I’m having a war with myself. “It’s time to quit this job, I’m not doing this shit.” “No..you are being stupid, you can do this.” Well by the time I was wandering the streets of Detroit with people I knew…I was fine.Now any rational reasonable geographically inclined person would say…well you know where it is at now.

My response:

“Hell No! I’m not doing this again, are you nuts…I have no friggin clue where I was and I’m never going to make it.”Hell I was so damn happy to even find where I valet parked the damn boat I gave the guy ten bucks. I could of kissed him when I seen him.Obviously I need therapy.

Once again Dean posted an excellent commentary on gay rights. One thing about Dean he is always thought provoking. In his article he states he believes that the gay right movement has become a conservative movement. I disagree. I believe it is a publicity movement by publicity hounds.

Dean has a list of what he believes has been gays primary issues the movement has been fighting for.

The list:

They want to hold steady jobs.

They want to go to church and join the clergy.

They want to live in nice, respectable communities without being kicked out.

They want to join the military and fight for their country.

They want to join the boy scouts–the freaking Boy Scouts!

They want to settle down, have kids, and raise families.

I have a 29 year old gay sister who I love, admire and respect. Even more so over the past few weeks reading articles and posts about gay rights and marriages. My sister and her partner have been together about four years. They live in a lovely home in a beautiful community in Iowa.

My sister has never told her family, her co-workers, her church, the government or any other organization she works for that she is gay. She does not need the validation. My sister speaks of having children and she will be a wonderful parent.On the same vein, I’ve never discussed at my place of employment, to my government or any other organization that I am heterosexual. I do not need their validation. Do any of them really give a damn anyway?

Now if gays want to live a quiet unassuming life…then do it. Publicly flaunting your sexual preferences is not quiet and unassuming. Do not get in my path to tell me you are gay, I don’t care. Don’t assume what you do behind closed doors is of concern to me. Just go do your thing, and I’ll do mine. That’s quiet and unassuming.On AID’s: people of all sexual persuasions are dying of AID’s. If someone is sexually promiscuous the odds increase, straight or gay. Promiscuity is the problem not the homosexuality.Also Dean is beginning to believe that the cause of gay marriage is lost. I have to wonder if it’s a moot point. In this nation for every two marriages there is one divorce. The institution of marriage has definitely changed from the days of our forefathers.Our nation compared to what it was is in moral decay. We have a terminal illness that can only be treated palliatively issue by issue.

Well damn if it hasn’t been a roaring two days. When I pulled into the drive just a little bit ago and seen that the power was on…I coulda cried.Obviously I didn’t go to Iowa since work was in a crisis situation. I’m hot, tired and I stink. The water is on but only at about a 50% capacity. So for now..I’m going to sit back and drink a big damn glass of Alize, turn my a/c down to 68 and sit here and catch up on the news half naked.I honestly have been so busy at work I have no clue what caused all of this hell.

Also Saturday, U.S. President Barack Obama had 30 minutes conversation with British Prime Minister David Cameron on the issue of oil. Obama reassured by Cameron that U.S. criticism of the British BP is not an attack on Britain and ‘have nothing to do with national identity “of the company. He stressed however, that BP should pay compensation for damage. Lately Cameron has been under pressure from British traders worried about the state “anti-British ‘rhetoric of the White House. London seems to worry that the sinking of the stock of BP puts at risk the investment of British citizens.

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As reported the BBC, BP will consider in the coming days whether to suspend dividend payments to shareholders, presumably to improve its public image. However, this decision will not be announced before the meeting the head of British oil companies with the president Wednesday. On Friday, about 800 crew members of 120 ships have been rushing to the area of oil urgently returned to shore after the leak of toxic gas platform abstraction. The crews returned precaution when a ship refueling platform prosdethike gas southwest Louisiana thus accidentally created a pipeline rupture and cause a gas leak. Of the 42 crew members of vessels, 36 are hospitalized and some have severe symptoms like chest pain, disorientation and difficulty in breathing.

Well after ten hours sleep I’m back walking among the living. The a/c is running and the coffee (thank God) is good. What a wake up call that was. Instant coffee is now added to my list of things to have on hand. But yesterday morning boiling water and pouring it through a coffee filter into the pot works really, really good. Addicts know how to improvise.The ice cold shower with the trickling stream was exactly what I needed to be able to face another marathon day at work in a healthcare facility with only generator power, no water or phone lines.

I finally made it to the gas station…yes, there was still a line, but everything was moving very quickly and efficiently. I grabbed a couple bottles of water and some lemonade.I came home and put on a couple of pans of water to boil for coffee later and ice cubes. While I was doing this I flipped on the news, finally. It seems Detroit is back to 100% power..almost. We are being asked to power down..rolling blackouts are expected around 5pm and later. Lovely. Fine. I turned my a/c up to 74, shut all the blinds, limited myself to one load of clothes (necessity). That’s it..that’s my part.I was lucky enough to catch a video clip of the mayor saying how Detroit was the best behaved city during the blackout…although the rest of country was ready for the acting out and throwing down. Well hello Kwame…guess what, we were expecting it here too.Even though curfews were imposed on the entire area…most didn’t want to be caught on the street in a car or not after dark. Everyone I talked to that owns a house said they slept on their living room floors or front porch…watching and waiting.Detroit usually gets a bum rap…for good reason. We were good because we scare ourselves shitless. Hell with the rest of the country…no one is more shocked then us that life in metro Detroit was peaceful.Now the power is back on…tonight will be a free for all. Let the games resume.

Over the months I’ve been reading blogs I’ve ran across stories where some asswipe had contacted someone’s employer…or in a recent event Child Protective Services. Being the ignoramus that I am I couldn’t figure out how they even know who some of these people are.Sure there is blogs where people say right out who they are, where they live…kids names etc. etc. Then there are people like me who stay on the edge of anonymity like myself because of my profession. So I thought.

The power went off at work today for about an hour. Seemed to be just a little too long for the generator to kick in….funny how the mind can tell the body to have a panic attack in under 5 seconds.It was funny how the workers and patients reacted to the power failure….nonchalant, been here done this. The police made it to the cross intersection within 5 minutes this time. Damn we all train easy…kinda scarey.Well Detroit once again has drinkable water..the all clear came at 3pm today. Just don’t go in the Detroit river or Belleville Lake, that’s where the Feds let them dump the raw sewage, either that or back up in basements etc.I changed the info on what is supposed to show on the WHOIS, it’s just not showing yet. Thanks to all who gave me the advice.

BP has 48 hours deadline to explain how it intends to increase the extraction of oil from underwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, said Saturday the U.S. Coast Guard, which criticized the oil giant that it does not do enough “for the disaster. “The BP must determine within the next 48 hours plan for extra capacity restraint,” he writes in a letter to the company by Rear Admiral James Watson, head of the Coast Guard. Watson’s letter comes in response to a letter from BP that sets out the design of the oil in mid July. In his response, Watson points out that some systems of BP needed to prepare and a month to put into operation. “I am also concerned about the fact that your plan does not provide what we had on the mobilization of reserve funds in case of hardware failures in any of your ships, or some other unforeseen problem. The letter from the Coast Guard comes two days after the announcement of the U.S. Geological Service that the brain is more than twice what was estimated and reaches 3-6 million liters per day. Of this amount, the pipeline by BP dumping collect about 2.46 million liters.