There were some storms north of us. Temps are about normal for the time of year. Rainfall so far is exceptional and more chances today and tomorrow as temps moderate. Nothing unusual here yesterday. About par for the course, actually.
I think the next "sport" we'll have jammed down our throats will be Rugby. If they fall for Soccer, surely they'll fall for Rugby.
We finally get a break in the heat, and once again we had a rain storm between nine and ten pm. This time it was quite a heavy rain that produced some local flooding. It must be that monsoonal flow I saw in certain forecast models recently. Keep it up, I say. Keep it coming.
Lately I've been playing around with the cosmological implications of "many worlds" and a certain interpretation of "many worlds" applied to inflationary theories. Come to find out, there are testable predictions in the form of features that would appear in the CMB. But there is a bit of ambiguity. If we simply assume non-Markovian processes during the epoch of inflation, would those features appear in the CMB anyway, without regard to any other assumptions? I think I've gone as far as I can go with this, but it was a diversion and far better than wasting my time with World Cup. And by the way, one of those CMB features has been already detected, although I believe the statistical significance of those observations is still somewhat less than five sigma. Another confirmation might be lurking in the noise. I have no idea whether that can be teased out of the background.
Not very long after sunset, thunder and lightning and yet more rain but it was a brief shower and I did not see any evidence of heavy rain this morning. And it was another great morning to do some work outside. Meanwhile--
A local preacher has been charged with sexual indecency with a child. Judging by the photo it's a white guy. Of course. I'm not going to speculate about his guilt or innocence. The presumption of innocence must be respected. But this incident triggers some thoughts regarding white evangelical males in general. Several other cases make me suspect that these white MAGA Christians really do have a thing for the kids. They love children but not in appropriate ways. It's the kind of behavior I associate with white trash, and they certainly ARE white trash, and an affinity for child sexual abuse would explain their admiration for a scumbag like King Don. I suspect that every conservative white Christian male is a rapist and pedophile at heart. And I'm sure they have no shame about this, because they've got the hot sticky blood of Jesus slathered all over their bodies. And maybe that turns them on as well. They're washed in the blood of the lamb! That gives them a license to sin without guilt or shame. If they're called out, if they're caught, then they just turn around and blather that everybody is powerless over sin, and imply that everybody is really just like them: lowlife white trash scumbags who love to sin! I really don't accept that, and I find such "reasoning" offensive in the extreme. At any rate all this is nothing but speculation on my part. But I will continue to avoid evangelical Christians and treat them like plague carriers. And sick shit in general. I don't have an open mind about this.
FUP FIFA and FUP the World Cup. How do people get conned into an enthusiasm for something that stupid? I'm sure the TV broadcasts feature the same fake continuous crowd noise you hear in the background of every football broadcast. You don't hear that in any real game, if you are there in the stands. That noise is a product of social engineering, and it is designed to keep the viewer on edge. Otherwise you'd fall asleep. And the tension it creates is relieved by the commercials, which makes the advertising more effective. In short, when you watch the world cup crap, you are being manipulated, just as the football broadcasts manipulate you. And if you ever watch a slow moving sport like baseball on TV you even hear a fake sound when the pitcher throws-- baseballs in the real world, don't sound like that, don't sound like a rocket or jet airplane when they are thrown. Another example of sonic hype to keep the morons watching. And all of this shit exists in order to sell you something. And if you fall for any of it, well, you're stupid. Objectively, the human animal is rather stupid and easily conned. Sorry. It's always possible to wake up, but that's dangerous for the ruling classes, who have a vested interest in preventing you from waking up. They need to keep you stupid. They need to keep you under control. Welcome to reality.
And the other part goes on as well. Was anyone really dumb enough to believe that "peace deal" 41 would actually hold? Is anyone still dumb enough to believe anything Mutt Rubio says? Is anyone still dumb enough to believe anything the top turd says? Sure! Of course! MAGA! They're dumb enough to keep eating the shit they're fed. They'll believe any lie as long as it comes from the top turd in the outhouse. They have a definite affinity for sick pieces of shit. Maybe they sense some sort of kinship there, like calling out to like. "I believe I LOVE that man, because he is just like me!" Ah, love. A majestic thing.
Meanwhile, summer-like heat rolls on, though it has not been quite as hot as the earlier forecasts had it. Air is drier and we continue to have somewhat windy conditions as well. Hot Junes are typically followed by a milder July, and rain chances are not zero, either. Might get some more rain midweek, and that would be a nice turn.
I've begun my study of the I Ching. It will be quite a while before I'll even begin to feel competent enough to use it. So much ancient wisdom! So many books to read and so many books to re-read! I doubt that I'll have time enough but I'll do the best I can. One book I'd like to re-read was something by Arthur Koestler on synchronicity, a Jungian concept involving the deep roots of what we call coincidence, as I recall. Acausal relationships among events. I read that many years ago. I'd like to explore that in the light of what I've learned since then.
It will be hot again today but not off the charts, and the day begins with a lot of cloud cover. Iced coffee on the patio just before sunrise was very enjoyable. Light winds were cooling, and the ground is still sodden. I wonder where this enthusiasm for soccer came from. I think the sport was promoted here as an avenue for the usual actors to make money. Americans used to regard soccer as boring. Guess what-- it's still boring. So I guess most people can be persuaded to enjoy a boring spectacle, or think they enjoy a boring spectacle. Other people do and we all must do what other people do, don't we. Fall in. Conform. Well, I don't do that. I'd like to say that I've never done that, but when I was a lot younger I was more easily influenced. So I have zero interest in the World Cup. Zero. And I have zero interest in most popular enthusiasms because I find them to be quite stupid. War is the foulest of all popular enthusiasms.
I don't think any of last night's storms were severe. It was good to get more rain, but it really is starting to get very soggy out there. Mosquitoes are bad. If the city is too poor to pick up trash illegally dumped within the city limits, if it can't make a minimal effort to keep Lubbock clean and attractive, then I doubt that they will spray for mosquitoes, even though the mosquitoes are a public health menace. Why should a pack of self-absorbed ego-tripping fat cats give a damn about public health? I would say that Lubbock is going to the dogs because the mayor and city council are worthless. Are they corrupt as well? If so, I would not be surprised.
Yes, it is hot and we do have level two severe storm chances. So it could be another round of wild weather late this afternoon. So it goes. I guess the maga morons don't understand that their country lost yet another war, and poured lives and assets down the drain in the futile effort to win that war. I guess the maga morons don't grasp that their country has been conquered by a hostile foreign power, is controlled by a hostile foreign power. Maga is nothing if not profoundly stupid. There are actually magas who think that God sends them text messages on their smart phones. Maga looks at a fat, senile, diseased career criminal and they see an emissary from on high, come to save them. But nothing can save them because they are terminally dim-witted and fated to be tools and fools. So it goes. Oh well. This is a problem I can't solve. I can just look on and shake my head. So sad. Someday that piece of crap will DIE. Will be DEAD. And what will the magas do then? I'm looking forward to higher interest rates, by the way. I did a LOT yesterday. I really worked up a sweat. I was out in the heat and doing honest work. Even at my age I am not afraid to get down and get dirty. I do NOT get out of breath.
I noticed clouds gathering late in the afternoon and they quickly developed into severe storms. I got rain, and not much of that, but other areas got pounded with flooding rain and large hail and damaging winds. There were also a lot of tornado warnings. It was a wild night of weather. But now it should be just hot. A hot week. Lower humidity would really help. I've learned recently that illegal dumping is rampant in Lubbock, but the city refuses to remove anything that has been illegally dumped. They've defunded Solid Waste to the extent that they lack the manpower and resources to remove the crap some people dump. The city has no problem spending on glamor projects, but the nuts and bolts of civilized society they ignore. No surprise, because our city government is packed with right wing morons. Conservative equates to shit-for-brains. Conservatives serve themselves, and that's it. No public service, but only self-service. It's basically: I've got mine and fuck the rest of you.
Imagine that! The top turd in the outhouse imagines that. Ironic, since the top turd is his own vandal. Biggest vandal in the country right now, having trashed the white house, and virtually everything else in the capitol, and of course he's still trashing the country, and in global terms, the top turd is the biggest terrorist, apart from Benny Netanyahoo. I wonder what the magas think of all this. Oh, wait. They don't think. Hot here again but drier air and breezy, which helps, and the rest of Texas is getting a lot of rain. Maybe too much at one time, but at least they are being rained on. For them, hot, muggy, and mucky. Our norther yesterday really felt good, and today many things are wrapped up. Much accomplished. I don't think I can get into Asian philosophy, like the Tao, because I don't believe in sitting back and letting things happen. Solving problems is more important to me than inner peace. I like fixing things, and I am unable to not hate what is wrong. But I do make an effort to understand what I can change and what I can't. But I don't accept what I can't change. I would prefer to condemn and hate the evils I can't eliminate, and heap curses and maledictions on a universe that permits evil. So there. Fuck inner peace.
I expected a brutal summer and it's arrived. 106 F yesterday. I note that city services are suffering due to budget cuts that result in understaffing in many departments. Solid waste, for instance, is underfunded and struggling to do their jobs. And yet all sorts of big ticket projects are being funded. It's obvious that conservatives are running the show, doing what they do best. Pillaging. Ripping off. Lining their own pockets.
Hot day and still on that treadmill to economic collapse and doom. Deal 41 crashed and burned. Blame it on Israel, and you'd be dead right. I predicted that. Anyone at all could have predicted that. A lot of folks predicted that. Nice to see Moscow getting hammered. And that's it for current events-- still a clusterfuck. When has it not been a clusterfuck? I think the answer is: never. Ah well, let the pundunts pundunt. It's a sorry business. I try my best to disengage. Easier sometimes than others. In general keep it simple and keep it close to home. I found optimum picks for each of my electric guitars, so instead of using the same picks for each one, like all mediums and all of one material and from one manufacturer, I've gone to different gauges and different styles for each. Like, I've got a couple of picks I made from an old Fina card years ago. One is a regular guitar pick shape but the other one is more of a triangle with rounded corners. One guitar is best served by a plain white medium, another by an orange Fender heavy, and so on. None of my guitars have the same feel or sound, so a pick optimized to the character of each guitar makes sense.
Yesterday evening I did see a few bees and that was encouraging. And today it might not get as hot as forecast, and that would be a boon. Among so many banes a boon is a treat.
No, not a grand evening, but a good one. Today it will be on the warm side, apparently, with only slight chances of storms or rainfall, but tomorrow will be very hot, and Monday and Tuesday will be on the mild side again. At least we receive some variation. I've mentioned the use of wine in my evening relaxation ritual. Don't think that I would consume an expensive wine. I like Franzia, in the box, and I like to mix it up. Some red in some white, for instance, to make a "blush". Mix flavors. I've had good results with that. Last night I thought about childhood treats, like "floats"-- these were made with a few scoops of vanilla ice cream and some sort of soda. Coke (trademark), Big Red, or any kind of root beer worked best. Do people still do that? I don't even know whether you can still get stuff like RC Cola, or Big Red. I only drink diet sodas anyway. I suppose Diet Pepsi would make a good float. This summer I'd like to try that. Regress a bit. I used to enjoy cold beer and no doubt I would again, but the stuff is too fattening. And it fills me up. Wine, now, is my favorite drug. My only drug, as such, apart from caffeine, and we ALL love our caffeine. I used to sweeten strong coffee with glucose, for a kind of pick-me-up, in my working days. My favorite wine is Franzia Red Blend, at 13% alcohol. That is also my favorite wine to blend with whites, like Chardonnay or Pinot. I sometimes try Sauvignon Blanc. I don't like my wine chilled, not even white wines. I think chilling kills flavor. I like strong, sweet, iced coffee in the summer. I sweeten it with Stevia. I suppose I could mention that once upon a time I did rune casting, for guidance. I have no need to do that anymore, and today it seems childish. But not I Ching. That does not seem childish at all. I have ordered a 500+ page book on the history and use of the I Ching. I will study it, and use it.
I had a very productive day yesterday. And it was a grand evening, with a cool north breeze. I spent some time in the midst of the vegetation in back. It felt good. It was healing. And I have the feeling this morning, a realization actually, that all my life I have been where I needed to be, doing the things I was meant to do. And at this time in my life, I am where I want to be, where I need to be, and I do what I want to do, and it just so happens that those are also the things I need to do. It all fits together. That's rather amazing. I've done without doing. I seem to have been on a Taoist path without even realizing it. I need to reevaluate life from a Taoist perspective. Fortunately I have a lot of books to help me do that. I have my journals, too. This morning it is quite cool, and still rather breezy. I did so much yesterday, I have only the essentials today. Otherwise, my time is free. It is good to have disciplines though, providing a sturdy framework for the day.
105 F yesterday. It was oppressive but now we are in a "cooling" trend. It's all relative. It certainly won't be as hot today as it was yesterday. And we've got a nice breeze. I snatched at the opportunity to do some work outside, early. But it's clear that we are in summer time conditions. Rain chances are not very good in the current forecast, but those things are always subject to change.
Don't be fooled by fake and delusional deals and always remember that the top turd in the outhouse is senile. Among other things, all pathological. Try to exclude bullshit, lies, and propaganda from your diet. These things are not healthy to consume. It will be a very hot day today but a system is on the march, and it will arrive tomorrow. And then the weather changes. I took care of a very important bit of business yesterday. It was a step toward resolution of an annoying problem. This problem will be resolved before the end of summer.
Yes, another storm and fairly heavy rain. Playa lakes are starting to look good. Brutal heat tomorrow. Triple digits and humid. But after that a sudden change. In the wider world, the farce goes on, and the clown car wobbles around in lame circles. Israel says fuck you to King Don and King Don grovels with his fat butt in the air. Begs for mercy. Oh, massa massa, please don't whip my sorry ass. Slobber slobber. SOSO. I see no end to it anytime soon. If ever.
It rained most of the day yesterday but in the evening it cleared. Nice. It was cool and humid most of the day. and this "day dawns" cloudy and cool and humid. Pathetic homoerotic displays at the outhouse and King Don falls asleep as the gladiators fight it out in a cage. The magas might as well come out of the closet. They are big on football, too. Fat, flabby, repressed homos watching "manly" men engaged in various forms of combat. Let's get real. Disgusting. Lots of bugs, scum in the reflecting pool, and I don't mean bathing magas. Peace deal 41 and it will be torpedoed by Israel, just like the last one. Netanyahoo rubs King Don's face in his own shit, and gets away with it. Maybe time to bomb Tel Aviv? King Don has no balls. Random thoughts, and a random day. All fucked up, King Don. King Don the feeble-- Netanyahoo's pathetic shit rag.
It's a welcome break in the heat today, but rain chances are mediocre. It'll be really hot later this week. And just as I predicted, Israel is sabotaging the "peace deal", which was probably a delusion to begin with, by bombing Beirut suburbs. And the top turd is such a spineless piece of shit, he won't stand up to Israel. How can he? He's OWNED. He's property. He's senile. He's anything but strong. He's feeble. And, he's corrupt. Again, par for this dismal course. Bombing Israel would have been more productive and more rational than bombing Iran. We really ought to be at war with Israel. In my humble opinion. But the cause is lost, hopeless, the USA is in its terminal phase. Soon to be death throes. And so it goes. We enter our 250th year as a failed state. In serious decline with no pathway back to sanity-- such as it was. Actually never very sane, and never really very great. RIP.
Yes, I know, I'm a pessimist. In my book, pessimism equates to realism.
The human animal is actually quite a good example of the sort of weird creature evolution builds. I would liken the human brain to the bony plates on the spines of stegosaurs. A grotesque adaptation.
Any peace deal will prove to be illusory. Short-lived. Sabotaged. So don't hope for that. I'd love to be wrong, but I believe I understand what forces are at work, and there is no hope.
We are set for drastic changes in our weather pattern, but they will be brief. A few days of much milder temps and really cool mornings with perhaps a lot more rain will be better than nothing. The last half of this month looks to be hot and humid. A nasty combination, that. No bees. Flesh eating screwworms instead of bees. I can think of a lot of people who should be devoured by flesh eating screwworms. I can think of other people who probably ARE flesh eating screwworms disguised as human beings.
And this fake peace deal comes right on the heels of a fake bombing campaign and a series of empty threats. Somebody counted and this is the 35th fake peace deal. The maga morons eat this shit up. I'll tell you what really worries me: no bees. By this time I should have swarms of bees but I have not seen one. If this is an early warning, of human extinction, well, human extinction can't arrive too soon for me. My daily mantra goes like this-- fuck the human name and fuck the human game. At least we got more rain. Yes, after sunset, ominous clouds, and then thunder and lightning and wind driven rain. It won't be all that hot today, but the humidity will be uncomfortable. Another odd thing is that I have not noticed very many mosquitoes. I don't think the city has done any spraying, either.
What else is new? Well, the weather here now is decidedly hot and rather humid. But storms are possible, and rain is possible, and some pattern shifts are possible. But by and large it is more of the same. I'd sure like a cool morning. Maybe later. A deep dive in the jet stream would be appreciated. I wonder how the flat earth morons explain the jet stream. Whatever. And the war goes on, and on, and on, until God and hope are gone. May the farce be with you. Take heart, for the farce is there! Everybody enjoys a good freak show. A freak show in an outhouse, with an abundance of depraved geeks! The sheeple are entertained and all is well.
