A Revolution In Shaving!

 I did photograph this astounding innovation in shaving mugs, and at some point I will share with the whole wide world. I can already hear the gasps and moans. The primary ingredient in my soap mix happens to be LAVA, the HAND soap, but it contains pumice and I find that the pumice sharpens my cheap generic Walmart disposable razor even as I shave! I get months and months of fine shaves now from ONE cheap, generic, disposable, Walmart razor. That is a miracle that goes even beyond the amazing miracle of a shaving mug which is actually a repurposed SOUP mug!! Do you believe in miracles? Well, you should, now. But I will continue to deliver progress reports as a public service. And it will be a source of welcome news to all, oh, I shall tell you all, that this, dare I call it a device, continues to function very well, day after day after day after day, ad infinitum. No, I do not believe in miracles only, but I also have faith, that ineffable oil and salve-- faith in this innovation, this gift of inspiration, the flash of lightening, that led to the grand idea of repurposing a SOUP mug, and making of it, that SOUP mug, into a world class SHAVING mug, by the simple expedient of placing within in it, not SOUP, but a blend of Palmolive soap and LAVA, the HAND soap! SOAP replaces SOUP, and, ladies and gentlemen, we have nothing short of a MIRACLE!

Feel free to rejoice, one and all. 

Cool Cloudy

It'll be hot later. No rain, but a nice enough morning.

 My shaving soap innovation continues to work well. I will keep providing updates on this very important topic. At some point I intend to provide photographs. For such amazing things documentation is good to have. 

Back To Warmth And Sunshine

 Warm but not hot, and cool in the mornings and the evenings. Not too bad, I guess. I am going to enjoy lentils with white and brown rice, pearled barley, seasoned with turmeric, curry powder, paprika, garlic, onion, Sambal Olek, a dash of EVO. This I like as a Sunday primary meal. Sometimes I add chicken breast, and some of the herbal greens that flourish in my backyard but today I'll keep it simple. I've been snacking on the vegetation back there every time I am out. You would be astonished to learn how nourishing and healthy some "invasive weeds" can be. As good as or even better than anything you can find in a supermarket. Easily grown, drought hardy, self-seeding. No effort required. One in particular is anti-inflammatory, as well as a great source of vitamin C, B vitamins, Calcium and Iron. What others spray and attempt to eradicate, is a food crop for those who know. 

No Rain

 Some areas on the plains here did get a fair amount of rain but Lubbock had a light mist for the most part and although yesterday was cool and cloudy and quite gloomy, no rain came, and it was all very disappointing. Our entry into May, the Mary month, will feature mild conditions, no heat wave, and only slight rain chances. Amazingly, when I went to shave this morning, I found my soap mug full of soup! No, not really. And what kind of soup would that have been anyway? A soapy soup, no doubt. 

The sunshine today is welcome, and warming is welcome. 

Windy Cool CLoudy

 So far only a trace of precipitation. A few minutes ago the clouds thinned so much that we got some welcome sunshine. Seems to me that we are going to be unlucky again, and again, and again, and have no rain to speak of. But today I did something revolutionary with my shaving soap. Yes, I like to use a brush and a shaving soap, just as my ancestors did, but I do not use a straight razor although I had a couple at one time and experimented with them but I never felt comfortable with using them and they were a booger to keep sharp. I mean, who wants a strop hanging around? But I had the idea yesterday, of putting the shaving soap in a wide and handled soup mug, and it was a booger of a job to dig that soap out and get it mashed down flat in the soup mug but it works so well now, to lather up, I'm glad I did it and it seems that soup and soap are close enough in spelling, to avoid any conflict or condemnation from on high, in response to this somewhat radical act. I trust it is not in any way unnatural and as I said, the lathering of the brush goes much better and I get a much better lather for shaving. What was once a soup mug is now a soap mug. Kind of boggles the mind and if you think about it too darned much it threatens to booger up one's mind and who needs that? I don't need a boogered up mind any more than I need a strop hanging around. 

Well, I think if I had done what I did publicly, out in front of a multitude, I do believe that many would have been converted on the spot, though some might have been boogered up in various ways. It was a magical thing when you think of it, a thing that WAS a SOUP mug became a thing that IS a SOAP mug, for shaving purposes. Best not to think too hard about it, lest one's mind become seriously boogered up. Save that sort of thing for Quantum Mechanics. 

Cool Today

 Just as forecast. But no rain yet. Very gloomy and the wind chill is uncomfortable. Record heat not long ago, and now this. 

Cool Today

Maybe a lot of rain tomorrow and the next day. I sure hope so. Nothing severe in the forecast, no thunderstorms, just rain. That is very unusual!

 Meanwhile the big clusterfuck drags on, and on, and on. The minions think they are WINNING! So much WINNING! They are getting what they wanted, yes? War here, war there, war everywhere? They love Israel so much more than they love America. They love them some Israel more than they love their own lives, the lives of their families! Alles Fur Israel! Is that Israel not a holy land? Yah! That Israel is a holy land! Is that Amerika a holy land? Nein! That Amerika is NOT a holy land! Minions play, the minions sing, the minions celebrate victory and perpetual war. I'm happy that they are happy. 

Big Change Tomorrow!

 We turn cool, and rain might return! In fact a rather cool few days begin tomorrow, and the warming after that will be rather gradual. We might enter the Mary Month o' May with no heat wave at all! I hear and see predictions of a strong El Nino, but how that might affect us this summer I do not know. More rain than usual would be a good thing, if that's what it means. 

Not As Hot Today!

 Rain chances are starting to appear again. 

Big Weekend!

A sporting event and two nights of George Strait. Wow. At least I think that was it. Something like that. I was not even aware until I overheard remarks in the supermarket to the effect that everything in Lubbock was booked up. I never really noticed anything because I was very far the the action. I guess a good time was had by all. Not the sort of thing I'd have the slightest interest in. Quite warm! It will be even warmer today, and then a change for the new week. The new work week. I have not had a work week in over twenty years. But I have not forgotten what it was like. 

I guess I don't really care about TTU. Not my problem. I can't really say that I enjoyed much about my tenure at TTU (TTC in those long ago days). Most of what I did enjoy had nothing to do with academics. More like drugs, sex, and rock & roll. Not necessarily in that order. It was the sixties. The swinging sixties. The soaring sixties. Acid burned a hole in my bellbottoms. Like, we're all one, man. Can you dig it? Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair. Hell no, we won't go. Off the pigs. And so on. Those were the days my friend. We thought they'd never end. And you didn't need a weatherman to know which way the wind was blowing. Weather underground, SDS. And then the borg, the corporate organism, assimilated us, chewed us up, spit us out, and ravaged the earth. 

Crayon the Cretin?

 The new Chancellor of TTU just might be the sort of rightwing cretin who could be the death of TTU. A Greg Abbot appointment?  A bigot? No surprise there. What next I wonder? Nice weather continues, nevertheless. But there will be no references to global warming at TTU. There will be no references to racism or genocide at TTU. There will be no references to women's health at TTU. And so on. We will have no diversity at TTU. No no. None of that! Crayon the Cretin will toe the party line. None of that "liberal" education shit at TTU! The Party forbids it! Certain books will be removed from the library and they shall be placed upon the bonfire at the next "Pep Rally"! Death and destruction to all things and all ideas that do not conform to the norms of THE PARTY! All rise and shout HEIL!! The local MAGA morons will rejoice. 

Bad Weather!

 Not here, but in Oklahoma last night. Texas Tech has just taken a big step backward, into the realms of bigotry and hate so favored by the religious right. Next thing you know, everything taught on campus will have to be Bible-based, history revised to suit the right wing fantasy world, critical thinking outlawed, science gutted, and so on. That's a disaster too. Courtesy of Conservative "Crayon" Creighton. Can Plato be far behind? Aristotle? Darwin? 

This was inevitable. So much the worse for old TTU. At least FOOTBALL still ROOOOLS!!!!

Nice Weather Lately!

 I certainly am enjoying it. So nice. We could use more rain. I watered everything last evening. It will not be quite so warm tomorrow. Evenings and mornings are cool and very comfortable. 

I've been somewhat busy lately, but I'm doing what must be done. 

Another Dose of Reality

Lies and Censorship

 Corporate media goes silent or simply relays lies and propaganda. The independent journalists on Youtube are being deleted or their work is simply not appearing in the "feeds". Frum Report was deleted but there is a Frum Reporttwo active now. The war goes on, and there is no peace in sight. And there will be bad news, but it will be hard to get that news. You'll see the evidence though, of bad things happening, even though the corporate misinformation/disinformation/propaganda machines won't report the truth. 

It is another cool and cloudy and humid morning. Coffee on the patio was vintage this morning. And yesterday, again, I accomplished a lot. I intend to accomplish many things today.

I hate corporatism, I hate corporate entities. I hate the legal fiction of corporate "personhood". 

More Inconvenient Truth

Yesterday And Today

 Cool cloudy and wet, but so much accomplished! A satisfying feeling was had by all. Progress on so many fronts, movement is so many directions. A long list of tasks completed. A feeling of completion was had by all. But now in the early afternoon there is sun. At last. And the wind is down. 

A warming and drying trend begins tomorrow. 

Norther Came And Went

 "Israel First" came and it stays and stays and stays. I wonder what it will take to divorce Israel? Is it even possible? What will it take to kill the power that billionaires exert over every aspect of our lives? MAGAs don't seem to understand that they have a slave mentality. It's as though they were born and bred to kiss ass, eat shit, and commit suicide. They are human sacrifices and they go willingly and joyfully to the altar. Weird. 

Daniel Davis Deep Dive

In MAGALAND they get fucked over and they seem to be too dumb to know what is happening to them. Are they zombies? Are they sheep? Are they brainwashed into slavery? A mystery. 

The Norther

 Cool and windy today, but sunny. It looks like we will have no rain. But neither will we have a freeze. 

One "victory" after another, one "ceasefire" after another. A joke by this time. 

Maybe Rain Today

Meanwhile, here is an expose of the government's conspiracy to murder Charlie Kirk, or should we say the Trump regime's conspiracy to murder Charlie Kirk? And it worked, but not the way they plotted it: Jimmy Dore 

Our government is EVIL. Have you noticed?

Governments are ALWAYS evil. Evil is the essence of nationhood, the vital ingredient that makes national identity possible.