Memo to Saudi: Active Rigs In North Dakota -- Back To 190 -- December 3, 2014

http://www.karmatube.org/videos.php?id=1312

Active rigs:

	12/3/2014	12/03/2013	12/03/2012	12/03/2011	12/03/2010
Active Rigs	190	193	182	199	164

Maybe it'll all be alright, ma, maybe it'll all be okay, well, ...

Look What They've Done To My Song, Melanie Safka

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Extreme Weather

Being tweeted now:  Sacramento, CA, receives daily record of 2.25 inches of rain; old record was 1.39 inches in 1994 - @breakingweather.

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Re-Post

It's a pdf from Platts sent by a reader: http://www.platts.com/IM.Platts.Content/InsightAnalysis/IndustrySolutionPapers/special-report-bakken-the-king-of-the-north.pdf. A huge "thank you" to this particular reader for some really good links/comments over the years. 

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A Note to the Granddaughters

It's going to be a long night. It's 11:30 p.m. and I'm wide awake, listening to some of the best music ever posted (http://youtubefugue.blogspot.com/). LOL. I hope it's still there thirty years from now.  

The highlight of the day for me is walking to the school every afternoon to pick up the older granddaughter to walk her home. She could easily walk home on her own, and in fact, her mother suggested that, but it turns out, she enjoys seeing me after school. It's a short walk but it's a great opportunity to have some nice conversations and some time alone. It's the number one reason why I don't return to the Bakken more often; it's very, very difficult to leave here and to leave her.

Often when I start the walk, I marvel at the uniqueness of the earth. Carl Sagan and others posit there are a gazillion planets in the universe with intelligent life; that may be true, but, if so, none are located anywhere near us. The earth really is unique. We can't even find a planet with even the most basic life forms, much less intelligent life. There seems to be a huge gap between the earth and what else is out there -- most of the other stuff is barren rock, or dirty snow, at best.

Somewhere in the house is a most fascinating book, A Privileged Planet, Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay Richards, c. 2004, on this very subject. I see the book is "temporarily out of stock," something not often seen, over at Amazon.com.