'Another Day another Dime'.
Indianapolis once again.
Early start for me to get up and to the airport to catch the 6.30am Delta flight to Indianapolis via Cincinatti on one of the small Regional Jets.
I slept on the plane as soon as we started to take off and I felt so sleepy whilst changing planes I wondered how I managed to find the next gate between flights and then I slept again on the second plane, wakeing up wondering where I was. The flight from Cincinatti to Indianapolis was only 25 minites and when I woke up I thought I was still on the runway waiting to take off.
Busy week at work from morning through evening ,12 hour days for this first week, and then some more when back in the room at the hotel.
Not so sunny in Indianapolis this week. Thick Fog on one of the mornings, and it rained the rest of the week.
I made it to the last 5 minutes of 'happy hour' Tuesday evening evening thanks to others on the team heading out before me and ordering me a couple of drinks before they closed the free bar at 7.30pm, at the Embassy Suites. We later ate and then I returned to listen to the BBC on the internet. I slept like a log each night, just not long enough.
Squeezed a swim in at 6.30am on Tuesday morning and a dip in the hot tub before breakfast. Wednesday morning started with early morning phone conference before breakfast.
No chance to walk around outside or explore much, as I forgot my umberella, but it seems there is a walking path along a river near the Hotel. Another week I'll explore that.
I did some research to find a Theater that is showing the film, that I wanted to see. 'An Inconvenient Truth' http://www.climatecrisis.net/
Interestingly enough it was only showing in a few Houston Cinemas, and, not for long, and I had missed the opportunity there. Everywhere else in the country it seems that the film is getting a fair amount of viewing opportunity.
I found a theater not too far from work, at Keystone Mall, North of Indianapolis and just made it to the 8.00pm showing. An extremely comfortable Theater, plenty of room no one around. several other films showing but no one around, even for the other films. Maybe no one goes out when it rains. Only 5 people in the film I went to see also.
It was a very interesting film, full of convincing facts about Global Climate change and impact of that change and how we are very likely contributing and speeding up that change.
The rate of change given the length of time we have been on the planet and how all records indicate rapid changes in that relatively short period. The Environment and the planet we live on is in need of preserving and here are a few interesting points fromt the web site.
- The number of Category 4 and 5 hurricanes has almost doubled in the last 30 years.
- Malaria has spread to higher altitudes in places like the Colombian Andes, 7,000 feet above sea level.
- The flow of ice from glaciers in Greenland has more than doubled over the past decade.
- At least 279 species of plants and animals are already responding to global warming, moving closer to the poles.
- If the warming continues, we can expect catastrophic consequences.
- Deaths from global warming will double in just 25 years -- to 300,000 people a year.
- Global sea levels could rise by more than 20 feet with the loss of shelf ice in Greenland and
Antarctica, devastating coastal areas worldwide.
- Heat waves will be more frequent and more intense.
- Droughts and wildfires will occur more often.
- The Arctic Ocean could be ice free in summer by 2050.
- More than a million species worldwide could be driven to extinction by 2050.
On returning home I spend Thursday evening with Jonathan . Went with him to purchase himself a digital camera and then ate at our Sushi restaurant in Champions Forest.
Indianapolis once again.
Early start for me to get up and to the airport to catch the 6.30am Delta flight to Indianapolis via Cincinatti on one of the small Regional Jets.
I slept on the plane as soon as we started to take off and I felt so sleepy whilst changing planes I wondered how I managed to find the next gate between flights and then I slept again on the second plane, wakeing up wondering where I was. The flight from Cincinatti to Indianapolis was only 25 minites and when I woke up I thought I was still on the runway waiting to take off.
Busy week at work from morning through evening ,12 hour days for this first week, and then some more when back in the room at the hotel.
Not so sunny in Indianapolis this week. Thick Fog on one of the mornings, and it rained the rest of the week.
I made it to the last 5 minutes of 'happy hour' Tuesday evening evening thanks to others on the team heading out before me and ordering me a couple of drinks before they closed the free bar at 7.30pm, at the Embassy Suites. We later ate and then I returned to listen to the BBC on the internet. I slept like a log each night, just not long enough.
Squeezed a swim in at 6.30am on Tuesday morning and a dip in the hot tub before breakfast. Wednesday morning started with early morning phone conference before breakfast.
No chance to walk around outside or explore much, as I forgot my umberella, but it seems there is a walking path along a river near the Hotel. Another week I'll explore that.
I did some research to find a Theater that is showing the film, that I wanted to see. 'An Inconvenient Truth' http://www.climatecrisis.net/
Interestingly enough it was only showing in a few Houston Cinemas, and, not for long, and I had missed the opportunity there. Everywhere else in the country it seems that the film is getting a fair amount of viewing opportunity.
I found a theater not too far from work, at Keystone Mall, North of Indianapolis and just made it to the 8.00pm showing. An extremely comfortable Theater, plenty of room no one around. several other films showing but no one around, even for the other films. Maybe no one goes out when it rains. Only 5 people in the film I went to see also.
It was a very interesting film, full of convincing facts about Global Climate change and impact of that change and how we are very likely contributing and speeding up that change.
The rate of change given the length of time we have been on the planet and how all records indicate rapid changes in that relatively short period. The Environment and the planet we live on is in need of preserving and here are a few interesting points fromt the web site.
- The number of Category 4 and 5 hurricanes has almost doubled in the last 30 years.
- Malaria has spread to higher altitudes in places like the Colombian Andes, 7,000 feet above sea level.
- The flow of ice from glaciers in Greenland has more than doubled over the past decade.
- At least 279 species of plants and animals are already responding to global warming, moving closer to the poles.
- If the warming continues, we can expect catastrophic consequences.
- Deaths from global warming will double in just 25 years -- to 300,000 people a year.
- Global sea levels could rise by more than 20 feet with the loss of shelf ice in Greenland and
Antarctica, devastating coastal areas worldwide.
- Heat waves will be more frequent and more intense.
- Droughts and wildfires will occur more often.
- The Arctic Ocean could be ice free in summer by 2050.
- More than a million species worldwide could be driven to extinction by 2050.
On returning home I spend Thursday evening with Jonathan . Went with him to purchase himself a digital camera and then ate at our Sushi restaurant in Champions Forest.
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