October 17

My evening activity was a science lecture on global warming stuff, the lecturer talked a lot about isotopes, which I didn't really understand so much. I learned that if all of the ice melts the ocean would be up to the chest of the statue of liberty. He talked a lot about how there used to be forest and plants and just a wee bit of ice in Antarctica. I learned a lot of other stuff too, mostly about how they measure what the world's climate was like millions of years ago. Most of it I've already forgotten or just really never understood from the start.

The lecturer said there is 20% less ice in Antarctica today than there was this month in 2005, 20% less in just two years! He had satellite pictures of the continent that showed a significant, dramatic difference between the years.

Spent the bulk of the night with my supervisor, a buffing/scrubbing type machine, a gallon a degreaser and the mailroom floor. In the end, the industrial-grade floor scrub and subsequent mopping led to dirty mop water the same shade of grey as the floor is painted. Some guy named 'Shuttle Bill' complimented me on how well the 'Movement Control Center' office was cleaned.

Posted in '007' (the big janitor supply closet) was the first entries in the Janitor Haiku Competition.

Urine dripping down
Why is aiming hard for men?
They have peed since birth.

It is not our fault
Doesn't matter where you stand
There's always splash back.