Welcome

Hello world wide interweb,

I am starting this blog in hopes that it will encourage me to look into the current state of our energy policies and technologies and offer a forum for those who care (or want to argue, educate, or follow my super interesting life).  This will include pertinent articles, studies, and events that will be deconstructed and laid out in a palatable way for anyone to understand. There may (will) be tangents, rants, recipes and unrelated topics but maybe it will be enjoyable enough for one to read.

A lil' background---->

I am a 28yr old  married, puppy owning, trail hiking, basketballing, ultimate Frisbee tossing, guitar strumming, gourmet cooking, beer brewing, environmental conscious guy.  I bounced around from coast to coast as a kid.  Born in Santa Cruz, CA-"grew up" in Syracuse, NY- ran quickly back west to Oakland, CA- and now suffer in the smog in Pasadena, CA. I just recently graduated from UC Berkeley with a B.S. in Environmental Science with a minor from the Energy and Resources Group after slogging through 2.5 years in community college on route to a college degree.

I was a non-traditional student, aka old man on campus, and worked in various bars and restaurants before being turned onto environmental consulting.  Not a glamorous profession by any means, it was more a semi-construction type job that involved going into buildings looking for mold, asbestos, and other hazardous building materials/conditions, categorizing it, and then overseeing work crews, that were potentially (most likely) undocs, perform back breaking/hazardous work, while I sat around reading the paper. Needless to say, it was lucrative and was a great job to have in school (got to study while on the clock sometimes) but it was brain numbing, slightly demoralizing and not for me.

Now like many, I am unemployed...

It is amazing how ego deflating and frustrating it is.  Cover letter this and resume that, it seems that you either have to know someone or somehow have manifested some experience in order to qualify (or get stuck working at Starbucks).  How does one acquire experience? Is it something that people are endowed with? Is it like a disease? Does it just grow on you? Guess I may have to get a masters...Anyway I digress.

So why am I doing a blog?

1) To keep sanity
2) To follow current events/technologies that develop
3) Reach out to folks
4) Find out if I can blog
5) Try to be an active member of the world wide web and not only a facebook junkie

So that is a impromptu bio/history of me, for those of you who made it this far, thanks! Please check back for an opinion, a bit of knowledge, and to witness my weird way of writing!