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Notice that my blogging is very scarce as I have devoted most of my energy to building Promet. However this article in the Trib got my blood boiling and my old collage ideals bubbled to the point of action.

Here is the excerpt from the Chicago Tribune “BP gets break on dumping in lake” by Michael Hawthorne

The massive BP oil refinery in Whiting, Ind., is planning to dump significantly more ammonia and industrial sludge into Lake Michigan, running counter to years of efforts to clean up the Great Lakes… Under BP’s new state water permit, the refinery — already one of the largest polluters along the Great Lakes — can release 54 percent more ammonia and 35 percent more sludge into Lake Michigan each day. Ammonia promotes algae blooms that can kill fish, while sludge is full of concentrated heavy metals.

Basically BP stands for Bad Polluters in my book from now on and a fantastic example of corporate hypocracy.

Here is what we can do.

1) blog about it to expose the falacy of the BP.com public campaign. We hope that enough exposure will shame them to stand up to act right, not just lie about wanting to be clean.
2) Sign these petitions currently being circulated among some polititians that can do something about it:

Congressman Mark Kirk http://kirkforcongress.com/petition1/
Chicago Parks petition against sludge dumping into lake Michigan by BP

3) Find out who the sell out public servants in Indiana are, blog about it, and hope that they will never ever get re-elected
4) Blast this guy for being an enemy to the environment Gov. Mitch Daniels

Mara and I bought a Teddy Bear puppy (Shichon a Shih Tzu / Bichon mix), his name is Monkey.

Here is a picture of the cute puppy:

Mara and I are Married. Husband and Wife. We had a great party.

Here are some pictures from the photographer.

Here are some pictures our friends took. If you have any more photos from the wedding, please please send them to us. Special thanks to our friends who shared these with us.

Andy and Mara

I picked this up from slashtod and I though I would contribute to this links popularity because I enjoyed this article so much. Written by Paul Graham, How to do what you love

To do something well you have to like it. That idea is not exactly novel. We’ve got it down to four words: “Do what you love.” But it’s not enough just to tell people that. Doing what you love is complicated.

The very idea is foreign to what most of us learn as kids. When I was a kid, it seemed as if work and fun were opposites by definition.

Happy New Year!
We celebrated a quiet and sweet welcoming of 2006 in a retreat to the American Club in wisconsin with Julie and Ken

2005 Hilights
- Number of houses bought - 1
- Number of engagement rings bought and delivered 1
- Flight miles flown in 2005 ~ 112,000
- Reward miles flow in 2005 – 42,000
- Bad habits picked up – Cigar Smoking
- Business ideas generated – 7
- Business ideas moved on – 2
- Blogs started – 1
- Miles put on bike ~ close to two thousand
- Mile ridden on motorcycle – less than a thousand

Since this is the start of the new year I am going to publicly announce some of my 2006 resolutions:
- put 3k on bicycle
- read at least four real books (nerd books, magazines and websites don’t count this year)
- climb a big mountain
- Beat TJ’s time in the Chicago Marathon (3:47)

I love the phonomena of resolutions, quiting smoking, loosing weight, etc. The gyms were PACKED on the third. Note to self, NEVER EVER go to a gym the week after new years. Wait until everyone has overdone it and is back to their normal habits.

To get myself motivated for my workout regiment, here are some hilights from the healtiest months of 2005 – check out my workout log, weight los chart, etc.

Slavek (Przemyslaw, my brother) has decided to start an online publication. I nominate it as a worthy link of the week.

DaLeek

I wanted to give a little excerpt on its mission or content but since Slavek decided not to restrict himself in that way, I think the best way for you to experience the daleek is to see it for yourself. It’s pure silliness.