So, I hope everybody had a nice day yesterday. Here, it was like any other day (well, any other day where I didn’t have to work). No turkey, no relatives, no football. Nothing. I mostly spent the day trying to weatherproof the shop area as much as possible (and installing the wireless access point I’ve had kicking around down there so I can use my old faithful Dell Inspiron as a “shop” computer). Threw my Cisco Catalyst switch down there, too, in case I want to hook up more shit (which is pretty unlikely, but it throws off a fair amount of heat, so I figured it can’t hurt). That was pretty much it, though. Well, that, and a lot of nose blowing.
I just saw on the teevee that what is possibly my favorite toy (assuming you can call it a mere toy) of all time – the Etch A Sketch – came out in 1961. This means I’m older than Etch A Sketch. That’s kind of sad. I’ve worn out quite a few of them over the years – I prefer the “classic” red one – and once considered myself pretty good. Not good enough to get into the EAS Hall of Fame, though. Story of my life: not bad at a few things, really good at nothing. Oh well, I suppose I’m in good company there.
Due to illness and incredibly poor planning, I’m faced with the prospect of having to go shopping today. Just for food, but it still means I have to go out and face the crowds, which I’m really not looking forward to. As I may have mentioned before, I don’t much care for humans. Not in groups larger than two or three, anyway. Four, tops.
It sounds as if you’re feeling better, PJ. That’s good.
One of the things I find most disturbing about the Obama Administration is their lack of respect for the Fourth Amendment. It seems with the power of the presidency, they just can’t help eviscerating it. I find it particularly upsetting with Obama who really should know better.
9 Reasons Wired Readers Should Wear Tinfoil Hats
As a fellow connoisseur of hats, tinfoil hats have always been of interest to me. There’s gotta be something to insulate one’s brain from all the invasive :crap: that is blasted toward us every day. As for draconian government surveillance — that’s why Alex Jones is out there. I don’t care for him because he sounds way too much like Rush Limbaugh and seems kinda Randy Weaverish, but he’s not all out to lunch when it comes to the tinfoil hats with regard to the surveillance machine that the Patriot Act gave birth to.
That machine is such a 1% thing and I never ever understood how the enormous amount of data mined could possibly be tracked without creating a huge jobs program — but then, maybe it has all been outsourced to India or China? Wouldn’t surprise me if the geniuses in charge of Homeland Security did that. I am just so beyond being surprised or frightened by the oppressive Cheney-like scope of such surveillance. It just seems to me that it has to collapse under its own weight because it will ultimately cease to function. It is a bloated, overly complicated system, much like the “healthcare” system I work in every day — the dysfunction and disorganization of these systems based on control-freak intentionally fear-producing laws is beyond apalling — I just can’t find a word to describe how crazy and immoral it is.
I went to our annual Thanksgiving Day Circle of Peace and Hope on the shore of Onondaga Lake yesterday and joined my friends from NOON and from the Onondaga Nation in thanking the Creator for the beautiful planet we live on and for all the elements and spirits and creatures that comprise it. We used the People’s Mic to read an abbreviated version of the Onondaga Thanksgiving Address. It was pretty powerful stuff and a HUGE flock of geese flew over us while we were speaking — hundreds of them — made a lot of noise and then all landed on the water as we were finishing.
The energy of OWS was a very prominent topic of thanks yesterday because it is the vanguard of the change of consciousness that will change this planet that we walk on to get back to The Garden. :yinyang:
Let’s get some flowers on them tinfoil hats!!! :tinfoil: :yinyang:
And add to that our Fragile Oasis, RG: