Meaning of life

I have been through a lot, and I feel like I can overcome lots and lots but this one is out of my control. Too bad I am not religious, would be something important to pray for ...


http://divorcesupport.about.com/od/isdivorcethesolution/a/surv_midlife.htm?p=1

My old house in Poland

There is "Polish Facebook" in Poland, it is called nasza-klasa.pl (which is literally our class, so more like classmates equivelent in USA, but it is increasingly trying to make itself as 'place for meetings of friends' so it wants to really be Facebook)

In any case, someone took a picture there and post it.
On the background you can see my old house where I grew up.

The house is the one of the left of the one that has light greenish or yellowish color of the top floor.

I lived there roughly from 1977 to 1993.

Kitchen officially done

While small little things remind, overall 99% of the kitchen is done. I made a book about it













































It was a surprise for my wife. (She said there are a few small mistakes but nothing to worry too much about ... she probably was just trying to be nice so just focus on pictures)

So the choice is ...

Here, so you know in case you care, what color of counter tops we chose.

God bless America

Since a couple of days I have better appreciation of this country ... and ironically God is the reason, but in reverse, why I like it here more and more ...

My other native country Poland is going backwards ... soon they will be burning 'infidels' in the center of cities ...

So I though it was time to say it clearly, "God Bless America" ... I am very happy I am here versus Poland.

Good day everyone!

Do doubt, God exists!

Why wait? God is Omnipotent and Omni Powerful, why wait?

Let's stop Religious wars since they are KILLING INNOCENT people - not very God-like, just simply show us and we will have heaven, here on Earth.

And finally since this is not showing, if it would, wouldn't this be a bit closer to GODLY showing than some stupid tree on fire like Moses claimed? Lunatic, that's what we would say about Moses today, and lack him in institution.

Imagine if God did this, and added ... you silly people with your Buddha, Jesus, Mohamed ...
God is God, it is me, that's all there is to it. Now, start packing ... all of you. I just made humans incapable of being evil ... hey, I am God, I can do whatever I want to ... anytime, in fraction of a second ... you simply cannot shoot a bullet anymore or harm another creature, even fly, ... I just made that so ...

Like I said, I am omnipowerful, everlasting, all-knowing ...
You silly humans, you though you knew me ha? ha ha ... what a bunch of silly creatures ...

Ski

We ski a lot, even though we live in Kentucky







Long time ago was tubing

How Cheney Started War for Oil

Just so nobody forgets what Cheney is capable of! Why isn't this person in jail? Why isn't he answering questions about 'yellow cake', 'we will be welcomed with flowers'?
Instead he criticizes Obama and goes on like he never lied and indirectly sent thousands of American young women and man to unnecessary death in Iraq?

Capstone from a year ago

This capstone was the final for my Master in Public Administration Executive Summary only

Executive Summary

Problem Statement - Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government (LFUCG) must reduce stormwater and sewer system overflow, increase stormwater capacity and overall, improve its stormwater infrastructure in order to comply with a consent decree between LFUCG and the EPA. Per decree, a stormwater fee must also be established. This paper examines the cost effectiveness of repaving public urban roads and private paved surfaces with porous asphalt. Porous asphalt allows the water to sink through the asphalt and reduces stormwater runoff.

Research Strategy - Through interviews with knowledgeable individuals, public stormwater task force meetings and research, we will examine the feasibility of widespread use of porous asphalt as a viable alternative to storm water tax soon to be imposed on businesses in Lexington, as required by the consent decree. Porous pavement would allow businesses to decrease the stormwater tax based on the area of impervious surface (driveways, parking, sidewalks, streets).

Findings – Repaving of even 1/3 of public roads in urbanized areas in Lexington is impractical and prohibitively expensive, as well as inefficient. Incentives for businesses to avoid the stormwater fee tax through tax credits are problematic. With a 100% credit, the return on investment is more than 100 years for existing pavements and 70 years for new development. The table below shows cost per quantity unit for total volume of stormwater, dissolved solids and total phosphorous between current situation of no porous asphalt and hypothetical situation of repaving 1/3 of urban roads with porous asphalt. Following, the comparison is made for private impervious surfaces changed to porous asphalt surfaces. Lastly, the table shows return on investment for new and existing porous asphalt in relation to $4.16 tax per 1ERU (2,585 sq feet).

Recommendations - Per dollars spent for total stormwater runoff volumes, dissolved solids and phosphorous in stormwater it is the recommendation of the author that porous asphalt should be strongly considered, encouraged and subsidized for new construction. Existing development may rely on conventional approaches to stormwater management such as improving open channels, and increasing capacity of and building new detention basins. Existing development may also investigate other ‘green infrastructures’ (ex. green roofs, green parking) to decrease stormwater tax. This recommendation is influenced by the desire to decrease stormwater runoff, which leads to better water quality, not purely a cost-efficiency aspect.

Senior Recital

So I don't forget that I did play once :-)



Singletary Center for the Arts. March 1, 1998. 7:00 p.m.

It has been almost 10 years since my clarinet recital.

Paul Hindemith - Sonata for Clarinet and Piano

1. Massing bewegt
2. Lebhaft
3. Sehr langsam
4. Kleines Rondo, gemachlich

Norbert Burgmuller
- Sonata for clarinet and Piano
Leonard Bernstein
- Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, 1st movement
Louis Cahuzac
- Variations for Clarinet and Piano - above as video!!!!!!!