Here at home, spring has sprung. Yet, the middle of the country from south to north keeps getting hammered by winter storms. It must be “global warming” .... or maybe the sun is warming up; ... don’t know, yet.

Perhaps you have seen this video on wealth in the US. You can skip it if you like.

Viral Video Shows the Extent of U.S. Wealth Inequality

http://mashable.com/2013/03/02/wealth-inequality/

So, how has this come about in the last 30 yrs. ? There are likely many factors, but I suspect that this is one example of one the biggest factors. The “entitlements” of executive pay and extreme $$ perks, as opposed to corporations not distributing slightly higher paychecks and small $ perks to worker bees, like you and me. Found this in a news paper:

Now, am not picking on poor CEO Marissa, she converted her office into a nursery for her baby, but I bet you cannot convert your work cube into a nursery for your baby. This simply shows an example of how wealth is being redistributed in our country, and perhaps the world over. Should we be outranged ? 

Where is our civil outrage?  Like, if “you” are caught with small amounts of drugs, you bit you will be vigorously prosecuted by the authorities. But if you are a bank, that is bank executives, launder monies from drug cartels, you, represented by bank’s can pay the “Justice Department” with $, and then you are not a criminal, and then continue with a cushy job and life, Click Here. Do you see a pattern ? Am I a closet activist ? I better get back to my life.

On to other stuff. No not traveling, yet, still at home enjoying life with friends. On the right, Sandra and Cindy after a recent hike day.

It feels good to finnish Rouel projects. This week finished two projects. Did some major changes to a spreadsheet for experimenters on combining gyrometers with accelerometers to calculate accurate pitch, roll, speeds, and displacements with an iPhone. Yep, just what an “old retired” physicist would do. And then wrote a paper on it, and published it on the internet. Where ? on my site: Rouel’s Projects. You don’t have to go there, unless you are really, really curious, ok, ok, it is physics.

Went on a bike ride with Cindy and Elaine, holy cow, I have a strong aerobic capacity from all the hiking, but my cycling legs are gone. After 18 miles, and a very short 100 ft climb, my legs became wimpy, and then a very slow wimpy ride home. The girls, they dropped me, and I never saw them again that day. Normally I can keep them in sight, but not any more. I need to make getting back to cycling condition a project, no excuses.

OK, 2 new projects, 1) Get back to excellent cycling condition. 2) Am going to install solar panels on the RV, a DIY project.  Why call them a project ? because to me a project means making a plan, and executing the plan. Actually there are more projects, but they have relatively short time lines, this two will take big time investments.