Now for the most important question, how was the pecan pie?

LMAO !

It *IS* important to stay grounded in the moment !

On the advice of my mother and my MD friend (see waist and scales), I have cut the pie into quarters, frozen it, and cut off a "nibble" and microwave it :-)

Quite Good !

Best Hopes for Good Food and other simple pleasures :-)

Alan

(After filling up on Gulf Coast seafood, Alan and JHK had no room left for pecan pie, so I gave them Goode Company pecan pies to take back home.)

They are truly outstanding pecan pies. They cook the cust a little more thoroughly than most, and it brings out the toasted pecan flavor.Jim Goode really perfected a local treasure into a masterpiece.

The Flying Saucer Pie Company on Crosstimbers has clearly the best apple or coconut cream pie, though.

There is the possibility of a lot of positive changes from peak oil for our society if we view it as opportunity rather than terror and bleakness.

Commuting is a perfect example of this. In the Houston-Galveston-Conroe-Katy-Baytown Metropolitan Area the commutting times are terrible. Most families have all the adults working, and the commuting times are averaging about 45 minutes each way. In lots of parts of the area, the times run an hour and a half each way stuck in stop and go traffic having to pay attention to the road. There's no real choice; the city bus system doesn't reach beyond the city limits of Houston and only Galveston has a municipal bus and streetcar line. Automobiles are fantasticly expensive, they cost from $100 a week up for a 45 minute commute. The average job takes 9 hours a day, so people are left with no more than 2 or 3 hours a day for their families and entertainment most days, assuming they spend their weekend time off doing the other necessities like laundry, cleaning, bathing, preparing and eating food.Sure, we have more money and a terrible quality of life.

Cutting down on home size means we won't have as much room for Walcrap, but it requires a whole lot less money to pay for or heat and cool, plus less effort to clean. Riding a bicycle to work is enjoyable, and so is sitting on a commuter train reading a book or talking with your neighbor as opposed to listenening to a shock jock or a political nut on the radio. Fresh garden vegetables taste better, as do slow-cooked meals.

So the peak will mean increased quality of life in the things that count-time for friends, time for family, good food and joy in a garden or a book! Embrace the peak! Bob Ebersole

The Markets and "CFC soars" are rising today.

They're rising because the Fed is going to cut % rates.

They're rising because the "moral hazard" is not being removed.

They're rising because DC is going to attack Iran.

http://www.google.com/search?q=csx+derailments+children%27s+investment+d...

Go here and see how CSX is doing today.

Like DC, if current management stays in place, and as long
as it does so, we're in The Wealth Via Failure Paradigm.

Courtesy: http://drhousingbubble.blogspot.com/

Putin Drops Bombshell: "If you attack Iran, you attack Russia"

A high-level diplomatic source in Tehran tells Asia Times Online
that essentially Putin and the Supreme Leader have agreed on a
plan to nullify the Bush administration's relentless drive towards
launching a preemptive attack, perhaps a tactical nuclear strike,
against Iran. An American attack on Iran will be viewed by Moscow
as an attack on Russia.

The above is coming from several web sites that have been consistently correct since 121200.

Courtesy LATOC.

New Orleans will be in the GOM for all to see in less than ten years.

The Mississippi River will be turning into the Atchafalaya
at anytime. The only thing that can save NO, BTW.

Which meanss that all infrastructure S of BR will
be inoperative.

Perry Arnett has more on the Unruly Power Grid.

http://www.peakoil.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=28505

And we're past the Tipping Point on Climate Change.

The Arctic going Ice Free is not a precursor.

It's the Positive Feedback Loop kicking in for all to see.

The Triangulation of PO, Climate Change (We are now leaving the Holocene), and Population Overshoot, Stabilization and DieOff will be the End of Civilation.

Maybe we, the US can hold for a while at 1886 levels.

That's the Hope right now.

And Great Article, Alan. I love trains.

Sincerely yours,
James

See Iraq for details on our future.

Arkansaw of Samuel L Clemens