Hot Today

 Hot tomorrow as well, but then another front. Rain chances. Cool mornings persist. Rain chances increase next week. Nice enough October. Comfortable evenings. Mosquitoes really bad. Nothing new around here. I think I've done all the clearing I plan to do and now will maintain things as they are. I'm noticing that things on the web are being "optimized" for "smart phones". I don't like that at all, abjuring and reviling smart phones as I do. Moron bait, in my opinion. So happy to have no need of one, or use for one. And I'm finding that 4G isn't worth shit if you live in a house with steel siding, and steel doors in steel frames, as I do. It's almost like a Faraday cage. Don't forget the metal mesh window screens. 3G was no problem. 4G doesn't work well in such an environment. 

I need to go to work on new image content! 

A Fine October Morning

 It's Ray Bradbury season. And I like it just fine, though much has changed since I discovered Ray Bradbury. We all live in an ugly dystopia that not even the most hardened science fiction writers could have imagined, except for Philip K. Dick, who got it right on so many levels. We are not yet in ANIMAL FARM or 1984 territory, but we are getting there rather rapidly. In times like these it's good to be old and on the sidelines. Let the "higher apes" do their thing and hope to be safely dead before they completely destroy all that is or ever was good.

Science, art, mathematics-- those things are good. Religion is the dogshit in our path. 

An Exceptional October

Cool but not what I would consider cold this morning. Plenty of sunshine and the wind is light. It all feels very seasonal and the conditions are perfect for October. Temps are on a very gentle down/up cycle. Could hit 80 F next week, but mornings remain sweater comfortable for those with thinner blood than mine, and another norther, not a very strong one, will bring milder temps again and rain chances, although the playa lakes still look very good. 

 Now is the time, if you are so inclined, to SERIOUSLY pray for peace. No jokes about poor Uri Geller. I wish him well. Pray for rain, too. Why not? In short, waste your time in any manner that makes you feel good inside. 

The Front Is Here

 Clear, cool, sunny, windy. Not at all bad. We'll be in the eighties again after this but mornings will remain cool. Good for October! 

I have only a little more to do outside, so I think I will pause for a while and resume when it is not so cool. 

A Norther Is On The Way!

 It'll cool things off a bit, for a while. We'll not have a freeze. It should be quite pleasant.

Lentils and rice today, with fried potatoes mixed in, topped with sour cream. I need to use all that old stuff up. It'll be very tasty. Pasta tomorrow, probably, as conditions will be good to prepare that. Meatballs and sauce to top it.