Toadfish Monastery

Hi everyone. I though for sure my ability to access here had evaporated, but apparently not. ChowMein has asked (over at The Other Place) that some info be published here so the Siblings would know what's up. I'm not exactly sure of the complexities of his ultimate identity, but here are his posts from the last few days:
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Sat Jan 09, 2016 1:41 am

The PamAm Paralympic facility has bumped Will to the top of the list of 660 applicants , take it now or lose it .

We are taking the offer , I am going with him .
I will giving up all my assests to my eldest bro . My ten pound coin collection is with nef number three .Nefs one and two got my other collections and cash already , neices one two and three will recieve 20 g's each .
I am good to go .
Will has a year left maybe 18 months if the gods be so cruel .
The placement will let me sleep at night , the state of the art facility means i no longer have to lift him , he is gaing weight fast with me now .
I can feel the ateain in my spine , my MRI is in April , i hope i have not accelerated the damage .
I dont want to be paralysed too soon .
Also the last NMO attack caused minor atrophy in my remaining eye , cataracts are also beginning . *sigh*
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Sat Jan 09, 2016 5:42 am

Hairy Larry has grown , he is not a big cat , 8 lbs ?

We are best buds now , he kisses my face daily , climbs on my to hug me , still exposes his belly to me and Mad Dog .
Lots of slow blinks and love bites , i am his go to guy but will be leaving for a year or so to see my brother to the great beyond or oblivion ( whuchever it be ) .

I hope he does not miss me for too long , his crying at the door will give him away and he will be kicked out .
If tgat happens i hope to smuggle him into the Pan Am building with me .
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Sat Jan 09, 2016 5:49 am

I will be offline within a few weeks and do not know when i will return , if a toadfishmonastery member would write to the sibs for me to inform them of current status , i shall be forever gratefull

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Poor bastard has had a rough go of it. I wish there was something I could do to help him out.

Barkeep, a round of grog for the house.

ET

Hi, kiddos

For the first time in a long time, the interweb godz have allowed me back into the monastery. I trust everyone is well and happy.

At my job, I'm pretty heavily involved with grid-scale windpower projects. They are pretty controversial up here, at least among a certain portion of the population who are convinced that windpower will be the end of civilization as we know it. These projects can be pretty impressive. I had some preliminary discussions about a project the other day, that if it goes through to completion will have over 60 turbines at 3MW each. The towers would be around 90 meters tall, and the blades would add another 50 meters or so to that at the top of the circle. This is fairly typical of the projects that are coming in these days, though the number of turbines is highly variable. Complaints typically center on visual impacts, noise, and environmental impacts, with environmental impacts further divided into bird and bat mortality and forest canopy/topography alterations.

I'm curious to learn how you folks view these projects. There are something like 165,000 functioning grid-scale turbines worldwide, with more going up almost daily. They are pricey to construct, but cheap to operate. They don't pollute while generating electricity. (arg, I'm biting my tongue here) I don't want to go into detail about the way we look at these projects from a regulatory standpoint or anything else, because I don't want to color your views with any of my inside knowledge. I'd like to get as much information as I can about how they are perceived by rational people around the world (that's you guys) as opposed to the single-topic screamers that I get at work.

Anyhow, I'll greatly appreciate any feedback, and I'll try to answer any questions you might have about these things.

Dammit dammit dammit. One of my best friends had his house burn down the other day. He lost all 12 of his cats, and 23 of his chickens. He and his girlfriend ar OK physically, but mentally they're beyond devastated. His crohn's disease is now kicking back into high gear and he's just a mess. Why is it that the worst possible things happen to the best people?

Check out Bobby's blog post from July 1. The video is incredible.