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Well for all that have not been keeping up with what's going on at Pharaoh's, it's a giant pissing match. One guy says he owns it, and will not allow the Raves. While another man says he has the legal power to keep having the Raves. Since the dreaded rave for Valentine's Day, there has been one rave every two Saturdays. So far there have 3 more raves. Three more opportunities for young women to be preyed upon by much older men wielding drugs and alcohol. I have written four emails to this great cities City Council, with no response. The Sun and The Redlands Daily Facts have put this issue on the back burner, but I feel that it would be irresponsible to let it be put there.

Another great Redlands faux paz is the lack of recycling bins for apartment homes. If the citizens of Redlands are responsible to recycle their household items shouldn't people living in apartments, condos and townhomes also do their part? If you look at an average home on a full acre lot, I know I wish I owned a full acre also, there are maybe five people living in said house. Now take a full acre or apartment homes. You can fit close to twenty units in that same space. Now those twenty units are most likely going to be one person living in them, even if they did my theory would still apply. Say each unit lived three people. Three people per unit at twenty units is sixty poeple. Sixty people living in a space where five were living before. Fifty-five more people creating waste. Now imagine how much recycling these extra fifty-five make. Now the city makes a huge hulla-balloo about homes and their recycling habits. They give you larger recycling bins and smaller trash bins to set out for pick up. They care about how those five people seperate their trash. On the other hand does the city care about those fifty-five extra people? Do they care that they are filling the landfills with items that can be recycled and sold for the city to make a profit? For those of you know don't know what happens to all that trash in your recycling bin after it leaves your house, let me enlighten you. The city takes your recycling to a facility where they serperate paper, plastic, glass and other items. The items are they compacted, smashed and often melted down and sold to China. China is where most of our cardboard, recycled bags, and other recycled items come from. Basically we sell them compacted paper and they sell an American company cardboard. Households become part of this great worldwide economy, and help ease this dyinng, choking planet. Wow, not a bad rant if I saw so myself ha ha. Needless to say many, many emails will be sent to local, state and federal represntatives on my behalf to see if there is anything that can be done about this.

On a lighter note, my wife is super close to giving birth to our little baby girl. In three weeks, if she makes it that long, we'll be getting one of those 3D ultra-sounds. Hopefully she isn't too squashed in there. Well tomorrow's is already Thursday, which means I get to go on my 12 mile bike ride to meet my wife at choir practice. Good night and God Bless America.