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 Of course, the PU isn't always a rotten place to be. Consider the sunflowers! Last evening I enjoyed the sight and sound of large flocks of Canadian geese. Very nice! I never ignore the beauty to be found in nature. But it's a dangerous place, too, and you have to remember that you are always walking a tightrope. I know some people like to challenge themselves by scaling sheer cliff faces with nothing but their hands and feet to keep them from falling. Sometimes you win a small victory. But the PU always gets you in the end. Always.

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We are going to have a few very nice days in terms of weather followed by a couple of rather cold ones. That's life in the PU. It doesn't always suck but in the long run everything always gets worse-- if you happen to have a brain. Otherwise it's nada nada nada. 

I had a slight glitch with the Googoyle as I tried to upload these. All good now. Nada nada nada.

 

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 There were no dust problems yesterday. Just a bit windy and the wind chills were uncomfortable. Today it is nice and calm. It will be sunny again. Of course, that means no rain. And that is not good. The vagaries of weather and disease are just functions of the PU, or Physical Universe. It takes elegant maths to describe it, but it is completely brainless and devoid of heart, soul, compassion, or any other quality we associate with sentience. The PU is as dead "inside" as a corpse. It's a kind of machine, blindly blundering on, casually extinguishing life as it goes, because, really, the PU isn't a good place for sentient beings. Amazing that there ARE any sentient beings. The PU generates them in a casual and senseless way, and snuffs them out in the same casual and senseless way. Life in the PU sucks, is what I'm trying to say... 

Sometimes I have definite Gnostic tendencies. And, by the way, the US has just gotten beyond 850,000 Covid deaths. I wonder how long it will take to reach 900,000? 1,000,000? The unvaccinated are definitely helping this process along.

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 Not all that cold but strong winds last night. Definite wind chill this morning. The winds should moderate as the day goes on and temps will be back in the forties with plenty of sunshine, provided the dust is not too bad. 

At least we aren't getting slammed like the northeast and southeast. Nevertheless, winter sucks. 

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 Cloudy this morning but above freezing. Our coming cold "snap" will not be much, apparently. Lots of data to suggest that Omicron is taking over from Delta and that the infections are not very severe, especially if you are fully vaccinated and boosted. I haven't found any more news concerning any new variants and the "Deltacron" business seems to have been based on bad data. Good news there. I'm so bloody tired of this pandemic, as are we all. Another thing I'm tired of is the drought. Rainfall chances are no better than 5% at best in the next week. Too dry! As for the sunflowers, I recall that there were once huge fields of sunflowers around Lubbock. You just don't see that anymore. 

Texas, so far, has been dodging the bullet in terms of winter storms. January continues to be rather mild. 

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