Homecoming

 Homecoming weekend in Raider Land and I've never been able to understand what that is all about. Trivial and stupid, isn't it? And what does football have to do with academia? College football just illustrates how seriously defective the quotidian human brain is. Good time to avoid the area around campus, that's for sure. It's one of those stupid, ritual, cultish, tribal things I guess. But you can SMELL the excite-MINTS! The stink of excite-MINTS is in the very air we breathe! Wheeee! Woooo! I'll just take a pass on that. Nice morning! Nice evening last evening, even though temps are above average. That's to be expected. Global warming is real, and human "civilization" is the reason, the cause, of that warming. I have no doubt whatsoever. But on to other topics!

A cursory examination is sufficient to reveal what a shoddy, defective, piece of crap the human body really is. Do NOT talk to me about intelligent design. It's a ticky tacky universe, as far as one can see. 99.999999999% of it, at least, is absolutely lethal to any form of life, and the parts that are hospitable to life are only barely hospitable, and then only for a short time, and always under the threat of sudden annihilation. So feel free to get blind stinking drunk, stuff your face with garbage and enjoy you some of that there football whoop-te-dooo!

A Beautiful Morning

 By any standard, very fine, and last evening was terrific as well. This is shaping up to be a good October. By the way, the advice I'd give any young woman would be to skip all thoughts of family, and focus on career. Marriage is the most masochistic and self-limiting choice that a woman can make. If you can afford it, have your tubes tied. Ignore your parents, ignore all other family members, ignore your church, because none of them have your best interests at heart. Do NOT fall into the hopeless trap of marriage and family. If you must marry, make sure that there will not be children. Selfish? I don't think so. Besides, if it is selfish, isn't selfishness considered a virtue today?  i don't think anyone should be a slave to their instincts. Or a slave to societal norms, or cultural traditions. And make no apologies. 

I suspect that conservative women have a slave mentality. 

Warming Again

 Up and down the temperatures go at this time of year. We got some rain last afternoon, which surprised me. A nice surprise. Great evening last evening. I was out pretty late on the patio enjoying the cool breezes. 

More Like October

 Cool and cloudy this morning and it's even more like October than yesterday. Step by step. I did more outside last evening. The path I made last year, I think it was, got a bit overgrown and it actually sank. I'll fix that this weekend after I buy a dozen sixteen inch square pavers. I'll just put those on top of what I already have, in the part that sank into the soil.  And then later some bricks to fill gaps and I'll need twenty of those. The work is never done but if ever got "done" then what would I have to do, eh? The secret garden is a work in progress and it changes from year to year. Never the same! That "channeling" stuff no longer interests me at all, and although I could do a lot of fiction I don't see the point. I can be as withdrawn now as I want to be, and I find that I want to be VERY withdrawn. I'm very annoyed when I go to the gym and find someone who wants to make conversation. I'm not there for that. And yet I see people in the gym who do almost nothing else, or they sit on a machine and stare at their smart phones. I don't understand the people who live in and by and for and through their smart phones. Of course, if that's what they want to do, let them do it. Let's just say that they aren't people I want to know or have anything at all to do with. They impress me as defective, even pathological. They give me the creeps. They seem like some kind of mutant organism. Alien. I realize that some people in the gym have an agenda of some sort, a social agenda, and maybe they are trying to hook up to someone for one reason or another, but I'm there to get a workout, a good, solid, workout, and that is ALL. 

I don't have a social agenda of any kind, as far as I can tell. I used to, but not now. In fact, not in the past seven or eight years. All gone. 

An October Morning!

 A cool north wind and clouds and very light misty rain inspired me to take on another task in the backyard. Home Depot at some point for supplies, probably this weekend and then more work will be done. I really like to work outside at this time of year. I am crafting something very special that I will be happy to see, and it will evolve, change, as nature does its thing, working magic on this structure. Ephemeral it will be, as all natural things are and I suspect that I am the only human being on the planet who will be able to see the beauty in this construct. No problem. I'm the only one who will ever see it, for it is hidden in the Secret Garden. Yesterday evening I had to service the wind chime I made a few years ago. Access was difficult but I got it done.