Sunday siesta,,,

Finally, all the furries have found cool spots to hide from the heat in, and are leaving the hooman slave alone for a minute,,,

Started the day talking about Speed, Strife, and though not mentioned, HOPE. We need strife to hope, and hope carries the day forward. The problem comes when we get everything we want and there is nothing to ‘hope for’, that we get despondent, lethargic, and start creating our own levels of strife to ‘carry us forward’. We are hard wired for that by millenia of evolution where scarcity was the norm, and life usually ended around 45, not the 85-95 that is the norm these days.

‘We have it too good’ in other words, and that puts us at loose ends in our programming. It makes it possible for FRAUDS to take power because we are so distracted by our search for the next fix to keep us happy (because we aren’t struggling, we think happiness will sustain us: it won’t,,,) And anyone that promises to add to that happiness probably has our ear to some extent.

Fuck that!!! Be the grumpy ol’ cuss down the road that sees the world through lenses marred and scratched by being shit on for 30 years. Listen to the old graybeard that struggled up from a fourth grade education and made himself a millionaire. Don’t heed the twenty sumpin that whines about ‘how unfair it all is’ when that pissant has never missed a meal, or a good nights sleep trying to figure out how to get through the next billing cycle without going under AND be able to pay his employees,,,,

road sign: yield to merge

I mentioned that the Kayak designs keep coming back to the Greenland style kayaks (or the Aluet kayaks called ‘baidarkas’ which is actually Russian for ‘small boat’) (note, expedition styles model the Inuit, race boats, like surfskis, model the Aluet; even the race paddles are more wing shaped, like the Aluet paddles are.) Well, those designs weren’t created because shit was perfect and good and the next meal was a gauranteeed. They were designed for survival and what didn’t work, usually never returned to shore, and what did work was copied from one tribe to the next until a boat ‘evolved’ that is a pinnacle of sea-worthy, fast, and efficient, (and damned easy on the eyes IMO) and keeps returning to the forefront of technology again and again, no matter how many designers get thrown at it.

The Inuit and Aluet made that design out of STRIFE, not good times and full bellies.

We got it backwards, huh.

I know the times when I am (extremely) short of funds, and I absolutely NEED something to keep other things going, my creative side ramps up in MAGNITUDES,,, That was a driving factor in my learning machining and metal casting. More arrows in my quiver for “MacGyver-ism” so that, even if things are ok, I have backup plans I can fall on. Still “I am the back-up” in play, but that should be the case in all decisions. Even in a family, If EVERYONE in the family makes decisions as if they were the only solution, life gets real flippin’ easy for everybody.

I know, easier said than done. “we can’t all be YOU, Dio!!!!” ,,,,,

ooh, you know how I hate that dirty four letter word,,,, Frillin “can’t”,,,, may as well lay down and die if you find yourself using that word on the regular IMO. Ain’t askin’ the world to be “me”, but I am saying that relying on the world to continue as it is, without regard to your abililties, “hoping” that nothing goes bad: Doom just waiting to happen. Prep your mind with skills, knowledge, no matter how antiquated or obscure. I have all sorts of ‘Trivia’ in my head that so often comes in handy for something. Like the history of kayaks that I have been picking up the last 4 years: totally useful for designing, or ‘profiling’ a boat for its specific uses. May not mean squat in the Markets, or on the welding bench, but it has its place, is cross discipline compatible (aircraft design, yes, not kidding) and fun to have on hand; as long as you are in the right group LOL. I say it to my ‘kids’ at the J.O.B. everyday (and they get oh so sick of hearing it, I am sure) Keep asking questions, learning, expanding the skills you bring to the table of the world.

And the one BIG skill I need the most work on: Social Networking. I have always been the lone wolf type. Hell, I’m an INTJ, we ARE lone wolves,,, BUT, the world doesn’t operate in a vacuum (yes it does, outer space is a vacuum) and people are not islands disconnected from the rest of the world. Individuals yes, but NOT stand alone types. We aren’t built that way (its why we have sexes; male/female). We need social interaction, exchange, mutual support, etc etc etc. It’s a soft spot in my ‘training’ and I know it.

Maybe I am being too hard on myself there. Being a crew leader at the J.O.B. shows I do have some social skills, since most of the people (not the deadbeats, they hate me) I have worked with WANT to be on my crews, and some have even BEGGED me to ‘bring them back’ (not my choice, thats up to bossman and Son of bossman). I DO have years of experiance in management, despite some counselor in HS telling me I would never be able too handle that role, (he also said I have no mechnical ability,,, ROFLMAO,,,,)(dear Lord above, why did you let me listen to that cretin? Oh yeah, You like givng people challenges,,,, ) and in all of those cases, I recall STRONG loyalties in my employees. In one case, the entire crew locked up a building and walked off when it was heard I had been fired: long story,,, maybe a post for a later time.) (But NO, I don’t want leadership roles,,, I may fall into them, but I certianly don’t go seeking them.)

Yeah,, I am too hard on myself, and maybe that is why my ‘guys’ like me so much. I push them, yes, but I push ME harder, and they see that.

Like right now: I am telling you to go out and seek knowledge. You can guess that I probably have at least one book open on my desk that is ‘about something’, not fiction: and you would be right. And like I told one of my guys on Friday, who started doing that ‘hero worship’ thing ” I don’t know everything, hell man, what I do know is so small of what this world holds, I can say I know nothing and not be lying. What I do is,,, I don’t say “I can’t” and that is what YOU need to copy,,, Stop saying ‘I can’t’ and start asking yourself “How CAN I,,,,?”. You will be surprised at how easy shit gets then.” (and that goes back to another saying I have “Know it? hell no! I’m making this shit up as I go!”)f I hate hero worship, it makes me so uncomfortable, I want too bust a persons chops and show them I am only human, same as them. I still get up and put my pants on, one leg at time and that my shit stinks too. (wanna kill hero worship quick? Let loose a butt ripping beer and eggs fart in a closed cab of a truck in the dead of winter. That lets ’em know beyond the shadow of a doubt, ya ain’t no superman,,, don’t ask,, please. Srsly, DON’T ASK,,,, 😀 )

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Hmmm,,, started on one subject, and been through a few others in short spell,,, (But it all ties together, Dio) Hm? Does it? I have to take your word for it, cuz to me it seems like the ramblings of a Doob’ed out stoner,,,,

or

I am off my meds and unsupervised (kats is sleepin’),,,,, Well, I don’t take meds, and the medicinal stuff I DO use is from a liquor store, and that ain’t it cuz I am stone sober,,,

Maybe thats the problem,,, I’m stone sober,,,, with pots of coffee in me,,,,, And no water time today to temper the buzz,,,,, and no kittehs bouncing off the desk demanding ‘Tentions!!!! rub me ears!!! Ne-OWwww!’

Anywhoos, nuff of the rambles,,, gonna go do some surfin’ and see what else the world is freaking out about this week. May or may not bring it up, but I at least want to know,,,

Laters,,,,