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Don’t have many deep thoughts this time-trying to stay afloat, and it’s not easy. I have no idea what’s happening with our country-the news and social media shows it fracturing, but when I walk outside and travel back and forth from work, it’s not. Like I said at the end of my electronic senior page, I feel despair at the mess, but true, deep change is messy, and the old order is highly resistant to change that strikes at the core of their worldview. Unfortunately, they’re good at indoctrination, and a good third of the people in the US are highly indoctrinated and have no way of thinking through it. More mess to come-100 million people is a lot, and demographic change is inexorable. But then again, so is climate change, and this is going to be a big squeeze. I’ve tried really hard not to drag specific, political issues into this blog, because it would swamp everything and just make me agitated. I’ve said that before…onward.
It’s Sunday. Back to work tomorrow. At the libe on the tablet. I’ve been contemplating using a tablet fulltime. It comes down to the storage unit, as I can do most of the rest from here-Orion is the key-I need to be able to do development on a tab.
Not much else, it’s super hot in L.A.-called my mom to check in. Saw S’s play, cleaned the house, failed to grill (need a key), watched TV. Got shelves at the bins, S rode her bike to the dollar tree. Played Let It Be at church-we were going to do the ending and the pianist didn’t, so I did a lame quiet version…
Monday-hard to sleep last night. M and I played pool yesterday-too hot to work out, libe, Mike’s for ice cream. I need more sleep. Didn’t get it, in bed at 11:30, up at 2ish, and when E got up for her Dr’s. app’t. Plus also I missed a call from work at 4:30-sorta not sad about that. Weds.-no gamelan over the summer. M is in Salem for FBI camp, E & S have to drive him back & forth-aargh.
And it’s Friday morning, and I had to drive M to Salem and come back-at least I’m working from home and E is going to do the afternoon drive unless M gets a ride. Tough being in a car for 2 hours without a break. I’m tired, coffee only helped for a little bit, and it’s going to be 94 out. E got a new window A/C unit, and I had to put it in last night-so unpleasant, and now a ton of cleaning needs to be done. Watching the Tour on and off.
Monday afternoon-been quite hot-we have A/C, so it’s not bad. Very tired, though. The house is mostly clean-vacuumed and tidied and did laundry yesterday, hard time sleeping. Worked out last night for the first time in a few weeks-the broken A/C in the gym is fixed. Not much else-grilled burgers, it was cooler, E gave me a sleep aid. It worked, but I felt slow when I woke up.
A weekend has passed, back to work. S went to church camp, not much else-it’s hard for her to be away from us, hopefully she’ll be OK. Spent some time getting the house clean, per usual. Got a nice old sewing machine for S for $20 at a yard sale. Yummy blackberries from church. Going to be hot, but not as bad as last year.
Links. brighter side: Saint Jimmy, haka!. Not so bright: everything else.
Page 23, Sentence 5: “Did the economy stall because tax rates were too high-or were the real villains all those Chinese exports and a spike in oil prices?”, Think Like a Freak; “In stone, where only upper-case letters are used, this is rendered SAVANT (or ST. if the stonecarver is running out of space).”, Anathem; “Without meaning to, Torrance had done something else.”, How to Fly a Horse