I finished my first term paper… it was for a class on Internet Technology so I wrote it on Blogs. Thanks to the internet, I turned it in and got an email response from the instructor the next morning. She liked it. Now I have another term paper due in two weeks. It will be a comparison of Off-shoring in the manufacturing industries to hiring immigrant labor on our own shores. My initial thesis is that Off-Shoring in the manufacturing industries is ethically inferior hiring immigrant labor within our own border, even if that immigrant labor is illegal aliens. I intend to prove that Off Shoring in manufacturing is simply a way to create unregulated sweatshops with peasant laborers in foreign countries. If anyone reads this and has thoughts, they would be appreciated, whether you agree or disagree….
Meanwhile, it has been daggone cold around here… coldest period in 18 years. I remember that last one well. I was in the academy. The other morning I got up to go running and it was less than ten degrees. I threw another log on the fire and went back to bed for a couple hours. When I finally got going, it was a whopping 30 degrees! That’s frigid for mid-day in California!
Here are a couple pictures of our pond:
Later as it started to thaw:
