Annual Work

Some people have the traditional spring-cleaning around now; our family is busy with the spring lobster fishing. I have my traditional repairs on the Clan stronghold.



I made this "slip shod" piece of construction about 4 years ago, the outer wall 3 ½ years ago. Annually I have to make repairs on the outer wall due to winter weather (and composting) not to mention the fact that it is over 100 feet long. The inner keep however has managed to survive fairly well; I've only had to patch one hole over course of its life span, not bad for being made out of dead wood. Over the next month me, my brothers, and various other members of the Order of the Zaquren will be under taking the project of refortifying the outer wall (maybe we'll finally put a door on the west wall like I've meant to for the last 3 ½ years) . I intend to take pictures of the progress for the blog. This is the south Gate>

Kill the unborn world!

Ted was reading me something from one of his schoolbooks today; it both amazed and horrified me. He told me that about 65 million unborn children are aborted per year worldwide. I did some math and assuming that this rate continues for the next 100 years and each person conceives four children I have found that per 100 babies conceived about 52 will be aborted. If this rate continues for about 2000-3000 years, the population will decrease to less than 200 million people! I know not all of the numbers I'm using are 100% accurate, but if the rate I'm predicting is marginally right there will be less than 10 million people to worry about the supposed asteroid that is to hit earth 100 000 years from now.

You know, 10 million people could live in Tokyo, Japan with lots of room to spare (The current population of Tokyo is about 26,440,000 people).