CURRENT MISSION Save money and learn as much as I can about jatropha biodiesel before going to Costa Rica. ABOUT ME I have not found that living my life ridiculously has ever had a deleterious effect on it. Quite the opposite. I've therefore concluded that I am the sane one in a crazy world and not the other way around. I've driven across the U.S. twice before. It is infinitely varied, but only on the surface. Both road trips landed me in the desert. This time I will circle the wagons and dig a well. I express with a keyboard and record with a camera. Sometimes I write letters. Actual, concrete, pen-&-ink letters that arrive in physical mailboxes. I'm glad there's a Black dude in the White house but I would prefer the Green party, and if I had all these things simultaneously it would be an Olive Green government. It might improve Gross National Happiness. Green has a proven calming effect. They used to paint hospital and asylum walls green. I love Katharine Hepburn, Myrna Loy, and Mae West. I like to wear red but I save it for special occasions. Hence my red dress and heel collections. PHILOSOPHY A thrill a day keeps the chill away.