I keep thinking about this and I never blog about it because, well, it's just not that interesting. But here I am with nothing better to do so I thought I'd blog about our trash.
Earlier this year, our township sent out a notice saying they were changing our curbside recycling service. They used to pick up only plastic with 2 certain numbers on it, phonebooks and newspaper. That was it. The notice said they were now going to pick up all kinds of paper, paperboard like cereal boxes, plastic with any number on it, aerosol cans and cardboard. Pretty much everything we go through in a typical week.
Right about the same time we got that notice, I noticed something about our trash. There was a lot less of it. And not just the stuff we were now recycling. It just seems like we had about 2/3rds of the trash we used to have. We used to set out our big trash can and an extra bag or two. Now, we rarely even fill up our big trash can.
We also used to have a ton of plastic shopping bags. I know I used to throw them out more often than I should have just because it was a pain to store them and then remember to take them to the store to recycle them. We still have a few but it's probably only about a dozen or so. That's probably about a tenth of what we used to have. I know why we don't have many of them anymore. We have a bunch of reusable bags from our local grocery stores. I know I make more of an effort to not take bags at other stores and I use the reusable ones almost everywhere. We have to keep a few plastic bags around for the cat litter.
Almost every week I think about this when I take the trash and recycling out to the curb. I really do wonder where our trash went. I have no idea what we may have done to generate so much less trash. I'm not complaining. I'm glad we aren't making as much trash and I'm glad I don't have to work as hard to get rid of it. I'd just like to know what happened to it all.
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Notes on the Orange (and Black)
The middle name of the blog didn't get much play in the last year. Bedtime comes right in the middle of Flyers games on most nights and leaving lovely wife in charge of the kids by herself for an additional 45 minutes or so again during the evening just didn't seem right. I guess I got in the habit of ignoring the start of the games and that means I just never got into watching the games and really thinking about hockey very much.
The start of October means the start of hockey season again. The Flyers season started last night and they're playing again tonight. The kids were pretty good (more on that later) and I made the effort to watch as much of the games as I could. Last night, they won 2-0. Tonight, so far, they're winning 3-0. So far, so good.
Because of my efforts to watch the game, I'm also really watching the games. After 2 nights, I have 2 observations so far. First, the team is much calmer this year. It's not that they're less physical or less active or less workmanlike. They are playing on a much more even keel. Last year, they seemed to be very lackadaisical for half the game and then they were full of desperation and emotion for the other half. It was all or nothing. This year, it sure does seem like they've really evened out those highs and lows to a steady, high level effort.
The second observation is they are playing much better with the lead. They aren't sitting back and just trying to hold on. They're still attacking and trying to add to the lead. Most people call it the killer instinct. They're playing to win instead of playing to not lose.
Here's hoping both of those observations hold true for the entire season.
About the kids. K wasn't really good last night but I worked it out that I could do what we needed to do with her while still watching a good portion of the first half of the game. Tonight, both kids were so tired, they didn't do much of anything. They've both been showing us a lot of signs of growing up. I'm still not sure how I feel about that but I'm sure I'll be posting my thoughts about it when I figure out what they are.
UPDATE: They're now winning tonight's game 5-1.
The start of October means the start of hockey season again. The Flyers season started last night and they're playing again tonight. The kids were pretty good (more on that later) and I made the effort to watch as much of the games as I could. Last night, they won 2-0. Tonight, so far, they're winning 3-0. So far, so good.
Because of my efforts to watch the game, I'm also really watching the games. After 2 nights, I have 2 observations so far. First, the team is much calmer this year. It's not that they're less physical or less active or less workmanlike. They are playing on a much more even keel. Last year, they seemed to be very lackadaisical for half the game and then they were full of desperation and emotion for the other half. It was all or nothing. This year, it sure does seem like they've really evened out those highs and lows to a steady, high level effort.
The second observation is they are playing much better with the lead. They aren't sitting back and just trying to hold on. They're still attacking and trying to add to the lead. Most people call it the killer instinct. They're playing to win instead of playing to not lose.
Here's hoping both of those observations hold true for the entire season.
About the kids. K wasn't really good last night but I worked it out that I could do what we needed to do with her while still watching a good portion of the first half of the game. Tonight, both kids were so tired, they didn't do much of anything. They've both been showing us a lot of signs of growing up. I'm still not sure how I feel about that but I'm sure I'll be posting my thoughts about it when I figure out what they are.
UPDATE: They're now winning tonight's game 5-1.
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