I just realized why I've had to drag myself to this blog lately: thanks to my job, I've been writing all day every day for the past two weeks, and it'll be that way for another week, minimum. I just spent three hours of evening time working on two proposals I couldn't touch today! (Coincidentally, I had exactly three hours of meetings today....)
In partial compensation, here is an exceedingly weird and interesting article from the Times to read. It concerns a Manhattan family that is trying a "No Impact" life:
Its rules are evolving... but to date include eating only food (organically) grown within a 250-mile radius of Manhattan; (mostly) no shopping for anything except said food; producing no trash (except compost, see above); using no paper; and, most intriguingly, using no carbon-fueled transportation.
Read the article to see how the "no paper" rule applies to bathroom tissue.