Summer Heat

 I can take it. If I lived much farther south I'd have some trouble. Heat and humidity is a terrible combo. Our humidity levels are going down. The corn I've seen east of me is doing well, so I hope we have more rain. Most of today's business is taken care of. Iced coffee for me, at the moment. I've had my Sunday drive. I enjoy that very much. I enjoyed a couple of my guitars this morning. All of my instruments are heavy with nostalgia. They remind me of instruments I coveted when I was  a college student, and in one case, an instrument I owned when I was a college student. And of instruments I owned in the late seventies. In the late seventies I went through a lot of electric guitars. I wish I'd held onto them. The oldest one I had then dated back to 1958, a Dakota Red Fender Duo-Sonic, with a 22.5 inch scale. Quirky but fun to play. Hard to intonate as I recall, but I finally got it spot on. I contemplate no new guitars. I've got enough. I've covered the bases. 

I like to eat the purple flowers you see above. The rest of the plant is toxic, but the flowers are very good. Pick and eat. 

Getting Hot Again

 And it'll remain humid. Bad combination but about par for the course at this time of year, except for the humidity. 

Forward On The Count Of TWO

 Yes, as it behooves us to do, as though we were beasts with hooves. But seriously, folks, fiends and nebbishes, one and all, I had a great evening last evening and a fine morning this morning, with mild temps, brisk winds, and the promise of more rain in the air. The forecast has changed, it seems, with a fresh charge of moisture from Alberto. The "clock" problem in physics seems to be underestimated, as all time-keeping devices are extended objects. The typical assumption is that of a temporal continuum but in fact, there is no way to confirm that. It's a matter of, on very tiny scales, backward light cones comprising the various bits and pieces of any putative "clock", with which we would define a "present". Weyl assumes a temporal continuum. In practice, that seems problematic, at the very least. One motivation for string theory was the problem of dealing with points, the points comprising the wiggly lines in Feynman diagrams, for instance. 

I think Susskind has dealt with this problem in terms of clocks as physical objects embedded in de Sitter space.

ONE Can Continue

 Just as some can cook, one can continue, and I mean, of course, this one. So pleasant on the patio last evening, and so fine this morning. So far no rain, but I encountered a light mist and perhaps later there will be rain. New Mexico needs rain badly. I have done what needed to be done this morning and all else is optional today. No doubt, much reading, and some guitar. 

I will be reading Dickens, and Hermann Weyl. 

TODAY

 So much accomplished yesterday and today! And the weather change has arrived, too, and I like it. It only gets better the next couple of days. Chances of rain increase as a system in the Gulf of Mexico sends moisture our way. And they say it will be a very active hurricane season, and that could help us, too. I'm enjoying cloud cover and winds, and mild temperatures right now. Let it rain.

I've got nothing but this junk, until I do a lot of image processing with recently loaded files, almost 1000 of them! That should keep this blog provided with my own peculiar form of content for the rest of the year, or close to it, if I do things right.