Got the kids to step back and I carefully pulled the bathroom door opened to be greeted by a wall of smoke.  No flames but a lot of smoke.  Kind of reminded me of an old Cheech and Chong movie only this was wood smelling not weed!

Called 911 and the Burlington Fire Department was there in just a couple minutes.  Devyn and I sat down on the bleachers by the ball fields and watched the firemen do their work.  Was very interesting to watch and made sure to explain to Devyn wath they were doing and that even though they weren’t seeing flames they were still be very, very careful.  In just a couple minutes they were done.  Still don’t know what exactly was burning but the Firemen took care of it wonderfully.

After they were done, we took both kids up the hill so they could actually see the fire trucks.  we went just far enough to be able to see them and still be absolutely sure that we were not in their way.  We stood there for just a moment when one of the firemen spotted us and waved us over.  So we stepped to the curb as we didn’t want to get in the way of their work still.  When he looked back up he waved us on over. Stopped what he was doing and went and got both kids small firehats and stickers.  He told them they couldn’t help if they didn’t have their firehats on.  He took the time after the hoses were all put away and put the kids up in the firetruck and all.

A big kudos to the Burlington Fire Department.  Not just for taking care of the facilities but for doing so much more that really made the kids day!

A team of scientists at the National Autonomous University of Mexico were experimenting to create diamond films when one of them (guessing it was the 20-something college undergrad based on my own history, though the article doesn’t say) came up with the bright idea of using Tequila instead of the ethanol-water compound they had been using.  So, on the way to work he picks up a bottle of “cheap white tequila” and they run their experiments with it.  Turns out it works wonderfully and the team ended up with some nice diamond filsm.  Full article is here

Check out the video.

The first half of the video is done over the dark side. It’s interesting in what you can see. But the real neat part is the lite side part of the video. You can get a better feel for the landscape in that part.

Enjoy!

So today, please take the few minutes, make a stop by your local polling place and make your voice heard. The slate is very small so also take a few minutes to find out what the candidates stand for. The second worst thing you can do is not vote at all. The worst is to vote and then have no idea who, or what, you are voting for or against. I have friends who, in the last presidential election, voted for the incumbent. I personally don’t like him but their entire logic consisted of this: “He’s the president and we are at war”. Uh. Yep that’s great logic there.

Side note. Still adjusting to the smaller town feel from the megapolis that I am used to living in. Went from nearly five million to about nine thousand people. When I went by the local polling place this morning two of the three candidates for city council were actually standing outside (one with her Dad) and were happily chatting with people as they came in to vote. That is just awesome. Getting to do that was just incredible.

You can read the full article here.

With a little luck this will become my alter ego and place to spout off about anything and everything….or it will languish in history and the Google cache.

Guess you’ll just have to check back to find out

For those of you who are used to the old site. It hasn’t changed, just gone into hiding. Go to http://www.tuki.org/tuki_old to see all the old stuff.