Article about evrionmentally safe way of reducing dust

One of the annoyances of camping at Cornerstone is the unbelievable amount of dust that is kicked up. It gets into every pour of your being and leaves a fine powdery coat on every piece of camping equipment and possession you have.

Water trucks run every couple of hours, trickling their constact streams of water to keep the dust down. It's better than nothing, but it can only go so far to remedy the situation. As I followed the lumbering water truck down the road one morning to the community showers, I remembered as a child in the country how some communities put down a layer of used motor oil on the dusty gravel roads to keep the dirty haze to a minimum. But I realized, that 40 years later, in our hyper-environmentally-aware culture, this wouldn't fly. People are not as accepting of oil spills these days - nasty connotations of oil-drenched birds and fish and all, with crude oil crud washing up on and covering formerly pristine shores.

So while happily following that crazy stream of conciousness on the web called hyper-links, I happened upon this information on a product that is made from the oil waste produced when processing soybeans. It's biodegradeable, so it seems perfect for Cornerstone's dust problem. I hope somebody responsible for handling this problem will see this article and check out the product. Hopefully, it would be cheaper than all the water trucks they have to hire to keep down the dust, and would do a better and more thorough job of it, too.

Check it out -
Environmental Dust Control

Cornerstone 2003 - Random Thoughts.....

As part of our blogging seminar at Cornerstone, the last day we were asked to bring in and read an example of what we would have blogged describing our experience at the festival. I started out with a general description of what it was, but Dave King seemed to think my personality came out more during the random thoughts I had about things in general.

Here now are those thoughts with some additions:

Cornerstone, with out a doubt, is the all time best place in the U.S. to people watch - even better than the state fair.

No matter how much you think you stand out from the crowd, there's always some guy next to you that's got you beat hands down in the attention-getting department.

Even though the Southwest/Mexican food place vendor is from Wisconsin, he really makes a mean burrito.

Along those lines - if you fart out loud in a crowded Cornerstone music tent, nobody can hear it, but more importantly, nobody can smell it either

The new cinnamony air freshner they're using in the porta potties really makes them less revolting.

Carry a flashlight to the porta potty at night. I found $26 on the floor. I bought 2 cd's and a t-shirt for my pastor from the Polish band Fruhstuck with it. I told them it was dirty money.

If you yell "Marco" really loud, somebody will yell back "Polo" - everytime.

Some people, to their own detriment, unfortunately don't "get" Cornerstone because it challenges their dogma of what a Christian looks like and how they should behave. Pray that they see the log in their eye.

Cornerstone is for mature audiences only, but only childlike people need apply.

Let's get this blog party started.....

This is a new blog that I am setting up after to going to a very encouraging seminar on blogging at the Cornerstone music festival held every year just outside of Bushnell, IL in the middle of a bunch of surrounding cornfields. Dave King of IdeaJoy blogging fame was our speaker and provided much entertainment and fun to the sessions, and of course, lots of good info. Thank you Dave!

I just got back home about 2 hours ago, and I am so exhausted after a 14 hour trip that should have been 11 that I'll update later my thoughts and feelings about the fest. Just wanted to register and get started so I wouldn't forget what I learned.