Just Random Stuff

This post really has no point. It has no topic. I just happened to find myself bored out of my mind at 9:00 on a Sunday night with nothing else to do, so I decided to make my 11th post of the year. Now people may not think that 11 posts isn't that hard, but I'm calling bullshit on that. I have sat down at my computer many times wanting to post about something and I just couldn't think of anything to write about. A prime example is right now, so I just decided to make this post just about random stuff. I however look at 11 posts and I am proud of myself. Now I might not have very many pictures and my posts may not be very long, but they all have character. Now you may be asking yourself "What does this mean?" And just to be honest with you, I have no idea either. Webster defines character as, "one of the attributes or features that make up and distinguish an individual." After thinking about this, I have decided that my posts don't have character. They are just merely words on a page. Okay, that's plenty of randomness about my blogs. How about we discuss Vault Energy drinks. Just for the record, I love them. Last Thursday I drank two energy drinks back to back and I was wired. I, along with with the rest of my English class, found out that two drinks really packs a punch. I couldn't sit still at all. I somehow got the idea in my head that I needed two cases of Vault for exams week, but to get the drinks I had to sweet talk the people giving them out. I eventually won over Donte and was able to obtain his cell number. Much to my dismay though, every time that I called him he didn't answer. I guess that this might have been a blessing in disguise because I think that two cases of energy drinks would have ruined my week. I would have gone from being extra energized to crashing pretty hard, and I don't know that my body would have been able to handle that.

CrimsonRide

I am not a big fan of the CrimsonRide to say the least. I think that is slow, unreliable, wastes money, and causes pollution. There are 41 bus stops on campus. This is a ridiculously high amount of stops especially since some of them are no more than 300 feet away from each other. This plus all of the traffic congestion on campus makes the buses very slow. The buses cost over $150,000 a year to run off of their current diesel fuel, and that number will nothing but rise as time goes on. I think that the best solution to fix the problem of expensive diesel fuel is to run our buses on biodiesel. Biodiesel is much cheaper to buy, and it much cleaner to use. Diesel exhaust is very harmful for people to breath. It contains high amounts of sulfur which on in the atmosphere deplete the ozone. By running biodiesel in our buses, we can reduce the amount of sulfur content that we are putting into the ozone by almost 100%. The above picture is one that I took yesterday of an empty bus. With these buses driving around empty, our university is only losing money.
Even with all of these negatives the CrimsonRide does present a few good characteristics. It provides a shelter from the rain and a nice cool place to sit down when it is extremely hot outside. The CrimsonRide also provides a shuttle service on game days. This really helps with traffic problems on campus on days when Alabama plays at home.

Weekend Fun

I spent this past weekend back home on the farm. On Thursday afternoon I talked to my dad and he asked me to go home and help out on the ranch. He told me that there was kind of an emergency, but he didn't tell me what it was. When I arrived home I was welcomed by escaped cattle and dying chickens. While the chickens were a big deal, the escaped cattle had priority. For some reason, unknown by our help, 50 steers had escaped from the pasture that they were in. This means that there was 50 head of crazy cattle roaming the woods and highways around our farm. We got lucky because about 30 or 35 of the steers wandered their way back into the pasture when we put out feed, but this still meant that there were about 15 still out running through the woods. After a few hours of searching, night began to fall. This posed another problem, not being able to see. We decided that there was nothing we could do at night so we just went home. Well that next morning, as luck would have it, all of the cattle were back in the pasture. During the night, the steers that we already caught must have lured the escapees back. I was really excited to see that the cattle had returned, and I didn't have to do anything. I was then able to turn my attention to the dying chickens. There was really nothing that I could do about that either except for just turning on more fans and improving the air quality in the house.