Very Windy And Dusty Yesterday

 Today a cold front. It won't be as warm but the low this morning was still well above freezing. Day before yesterday I spent a lot of time outdoors. Guess what-- I hate winter. Doesn't everyone? The weird and extreme seem to be the norm in more things than the weather. Were people always this crazy? I think so, but social media allows craziness to reach a critical mass. One village idiot is able to communicate with similar village idiots all over the world, and that's what the internet has done for us. That's bad news for the future of humanity. But in the long run, homo sapiens would probably have been a dead end anyway. A failed experiment. Somewhere in the galaxy there are probably species who have actually managed to do all the things that humanity is incapable of doing. Or at least I'd like to think so. 

The universe is probably littered with failed civilizations, and I'm quite certain that we will be one of those failures. 

Even More Like Spring

 High winds and a lot of dust and dirt blowing around today. Typical of Lubbock. We are really having one of "those" months. But it beats any Arctic Bum Blast. No snow, no ice, no sub-zero wind chills. I'll take it. It sucks, but it's better than many alternatives. Of course, it is very, very, dry. The drought is unrelenting. In 2019 we had a lot of rain. But I don't think that has happened since then.

A January Like Spring

 It's one of those this year, a January with above average temps and lots of wind and dry conditions conducive to fire danger and blowing dust. Screwed up as usual, King Friday. Ha. 

But that does not mean that we will not be frozen later, subject to yet another Arctic Bum Blast. For that is life in this rather stupid realm, of the PU. Shoddy. Slipshod. Haphazard. 

Warming Up Again

 When we finally get some rain or other precipitation it'll probably be a disaster scenario, like California. I'm not looking forward to that. There was not a lot of cotton planted last year, around here. And this will probably be another bad year. I don't even want to know the state of our surface water reservoirs. It would be too depressing. By this time we must be approaching total dependence on wells. Good luck with that. Non-sustainable population growth is a real thing. 

But I'm looking forward to another summer, rain or no rain. Not only am I negative for Covid, I'm negative about very nearly everything. I've lived long enough, and I've seen enough, to be in a position to pass that verdict of negation. Not only is the glass half-empty, the glass is dirty and the contents are toxic. So there. 

A Norther

 But not a very strong one, blew through yesterday. A mild week is in store for us, devoid of rain. Drought. Some towns and cities around here are in a bad way, with reservoirs so low, the water that's left isn't fit to drink. Or so I've heard, on KCBD. Some of those cities were made by oil money. Ironic, that oil might kill them. The only good "oil man" is an "oil man" whose time has come. In MY opinion.

The greenhouse effect is all too real. It's physics! Everything boils down to physics, and math is the language of physics. All else is mere hand waving and flummery.