SIGH! Another company on my personal boycott list!

BP is now on my personal boycott list, along with Exxon (Exxon Valdez), Tyson (mistreatment of employees), and Nestle (marketing of baby formula to poor African women when breast feeding is much better, even after they said that they would stop.)

This is not because BP had an oil drilling accident, but for lack of technical due diligence before and during drilling and lack of honesty and openness (i.e. lying) afterward. This is too bad, because around here there are really only two major gas station brands -- BP and Exxon! I guess I have to use the cheaper, off-brand gasolines.

I did a BAD thing!

Several, actually. On my way to volunteer at the aquarium (good), I stopped at McDonald's (Bad) and ordered three sausage muffins (Bad, bad, bad). I ate them while driving to work (bad). (I think of my volunteering as "work" as it shows my commitment (good).) When I arrived I had a couple of muffin tops left over (good). I left them in the parking lot for the gulls (bad - they should eat their normal wild food!) I enjoyed the antics (badf). One gull snatched a muffin and flew off with it pursued by many gulls trying to get it away. It dropped the muffin but it hadn't fallen more than a foot before it was snagged by another gull. A third gull grabbed it and tried to pull it from the one that had it -- no luck! The current owner was flying around and around, chased by the mob, trying to get bites of it while not letting go of it. They mob finally flew over the trees where I couldn't see them.

No more feeding of wild critters for me (except in a rescue situation).