What's On My Mind

The six trapped miners in Utah. I think they're not alive. I hope I'm wrong. We don't mine where I work, but we do have a few shallow underground tunnels, and we do blast in the 'pit' area [back area] of the quarry. I think any quarry or mine site right now is thinking about those miners as well as the three contractors who died after falling 500 feet down a mine air shaft. MSHA is definitely working overtime this weekend. It's frustrating that rescue is going so slow in Utah, but I guess putting the lives of the rescuers in jeopardy isn't something anyone wants. Updates from MSHA.

Merv Griffin died, and that's sad.

People are shooting other people all over the place and that's sad, too.

The Bears won their pre-season game last night and that makes me a teensy bit happy.

You know what else makes me a little happy? These two guys:

Alex Rieger: It's so quiet up here you can hear yourself think.
"Reverend" Jim Ignatowski: I don't hear anything.

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