Welcome back.

There have been lots of celebrity deaths this past week. Ed McMahon, Michael Jackson, Farah Fawcett and Billy Mays.

Please give a warm welcome to my sister, who has just joined the blogosphere with Diary of a Budding Locavore. Please join her as she documents her efforts to move herself and her family to a diet of locally-grown foods.

Every now and then, I raed something that just makes me shake my head in disbelief. The problem usually stems from a misunderstanding of time when it is related to energy.

It seems to me that there are people in the world who you are just supposed to meet. Now, I’m not talking about your nearest and dearest friends, significant others or such, just the occasional stranger who strikes up a conversation.

Oh, this is good. A camera crew for the Washington DC Fox TV station was at Union Station to cover a story about Union Station security harassing photographers. While they were there, interviewing an Amtrak spokesperson, who was telling the news crew that there are no restrictions on photography in Union Station, along comes a security guard, who promptly shuts down the interview because photography is not allowed in Union Station.