i am not dead. but it is baseball season. it has been a good one so far. it is hard to go two or three days without posting something.

i just got done watching 'before dinosaurs'. finally discover channel had something good on. i am not into watching crab fisherman.

not much new around here. the number two technician at my work badly broke his arm, falling off a stepstool ladder pruning trees for his parents. that means bigger workload for me.

OH was great, as always. it also flew by, as always.

most likely, i am going to the salt river to go tubing this weekend.

there was an excellent article in this month's discover mag regarding alien life. alien life here on earth. alien inregards to current, DNA based life. the main postulate for the theory seems to be an excellent one, but one that has yet to be validated elsewhere. the postulate is that two or more types of life developed. while that theory sounds reasonable at first, it slowly but surely wanes. there vare too many different possibilities. maybe we are the only planet in the universe to have life. maybe life happens everywhere, but it all is DNA based. maybe DNA life killed off other life types here. maybe other types of non DNA life did evolve, but weren't successful at adapting. survival of the fittest is the norm. maybe life was introduced here through a comet, asteroid, or meteor from venus or mars; thus eliminating the 'life originated here' portion of the statement. what if many different types of life developed here. a cataclysmic event killed off everything. but DNA life escaped into space on rocks that orbited the earth via a comet or meteor impact. these rocks could have orbitted the earth, or even gone to a much different venus or mars. they thrived on their new planet, but that success did not last on alien soil. but before it was wiped out, it caught a ride back to earth via the same process that brought it to the temporary planet. maybe conditions here were only right for DNA life to develop. irregardless, how would we find that alien life, here on earth? on mars? elsewhere?
something to think about.

no rafting this weekend. oh well, i have some friends to help move. a have a friend who needs help building his house. i have me who needs some time off.

peace