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Having just called the Stronghold Conference Center to confirm it's ok to take companions of the canine variety onto their grounds, I can say that Kuma has a fantastic road trip to look forward to this weekend! I'm rather looking forward to it too. Kuma gets a den in the back of posicat's van, Posi, Andrea, myself, and probably tybis as well will be good company for five or six hours of driving.

I hope Kuma's paw is better this weekend. He was limping a little bit a week or two ago, but he seems better now. I think his arthritis might be getting worse. Poor puppy. He loved his trip to Joliet though, I'm told, so this should be wonderfully exciting for a big friendly Akita.

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From Thoughtviper's blog, is a link to a very interesting article. It may now be possible to burn sea water for energy.

What?

Yes indeed; check this out.

Ok, it's not really burning water; application of a particular sort of RF radiation to seawater frees trapped hydrogen which can then be burned. But still; this is pretty amazing. There's nothing there yet to indicate whether more energy is produced than is expended in the generation of the RF radiation, but if there is....

Wow. I have visions in my head of a world where the water level of the ocean has dropped as people keep burning it for energy. I wonder if the electrolysed gases would reconstitue in the atmosphere as water and come back down in rain, or if most of the desconstructed water would just remain gases. What's the result of the chemical reaction of burning hydrogen again? Don't you end up with water vapor?

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A serious question for those who've done business travel (farm_cat or vandringar maybe?) or thought very much about it. (Or, really, if you just have an opinion too, though hearing about it from a first-hand perspective would be good.)

I may have the chance to move to a job internal to my company that would require about 30% travel. I'm excited about that, but rather nervous at the same time. I'm worried that being away from home will make me unhappy. I'm worred that Andrea will be more frequently limited by having to take care of the dog. I'm worried about missing events that I want to be at 'cause I'm away from home. I wonder if I'll be scared of getting on an airplane.

I'm thinking about this and will probably have a talk with my current manager on Monday and my prospective new manager after that. What do you all think? What's it like?

As a friend of mine who's already in that group told me, if it's more than I want to deal with, I could always quit. That was his idea going in to it.