Just idling through the week

Little to talk about, much thinking and researching, but keep coming back to the

Learning lots, not all accepted, likely only grains here and there amongst the nuggets I’m digging through.

Rcvd good news at the J.O.B. today: pay raise,,, won’t say how much, but it put a pretty shiny disposition to my week and attitude.

The work I am doing this week is most definitely of the MacGuyver sort,,, “Make it work with what ya have”   No complaints, this is the sort of stuff where I shine the brightest.

but it does take a toll on my after hours thinks,,,

and then you get the word salads such as in the first third of this vid (bear with it, painful as it is. The middle response vid is perfect, and the follow up by the gentleman is CLASSIC,,,)

And the truth,,,

We are on the cusp of something, we know this.   “What” is the only question.   When I see retorts delivered so elegantly and with passion,,, Yah, I get a better feel for the future.   

I don’t like using woo-woo thinks to deliver my ideas, but there is one thing that repeatedly gets brought up in the New Testement about “Age of Aquarius”,,, usually through metaphors as spoken by the Christ figure.    “Ages” are every 2150 years, as the sun precesses through the  Constellations.  Taurus, Ram, our current ‘age’ Pisces, and we are entering (have entered?) Aquarius.    Each ‘Age’ is dominated by great changes, and the bible is very good at documenting those upheavals ‘so far’.  

and Hoo-boy are we seeing upheavals, no?  

Maybe there is something to this zodiac thing,,,   (no, I don’t pay any real attention to astrology or ‘signs’ like that.)  

The fear is real.  You feel it growing.  BUT: Is it the fear of the unknown, or is the fear of change?   I know from my own perspective, I dislike change.  Very much like order and predictability.  BUT, I know that such is a illusion and you have to be able to adapt on the fly.   Others have noted that when the shit hits the fan, I go cool and calm, and EFFECTIVE, when everyone else is running around with their hair on fire.   It was noted in Kuwait, both of my Ex’s made mention of it, and one of the guys at the J.O.B. said similar today.   Is that in my training, or is that just hardwired into me somehow?  Dunno, but its fact.   If I am getting Anxious, its because I am pushing my personal bounderies.   If the world is blowing up, I go cool because I have already pushed such bounderies, and I have some idea of ‘what to do next’,,,,    And I know freaking out only prolongs and tortures the issue.   Every auto accident I have been involved in, I didn’t get the shakes until well after the fact.   When Kray-kray dood tried to blow my brains out a couple years back, it wasn’t until AFTER the shot was fired and Dood was sitting in the back of a cruiser that the adrenals kicked in and the shakes started.

Maybe I’m just weird,,,, (high chance bordering on likely,,,)

And I know I am not alone in this one: sometimes things ‘come to me’ in advance and I get mentally prepared before the fact.   Such as when in Kuwait: my NCO was shitting bricks for two days and I was getting under his skin because I was so relaxed, near catatonic in reaction speeds and such.   BUT, hours before we started recieving fire, I was on high alert, but not nervous, whereas he was relaxed ‘because the wars over, man’,,,,, Yeah,  not everyone got the message asshat!!!   Don’t know to this day what tipped me, but I knew, we were going to get jumped, KNEW IT!!!   And we did, while  extracting through the Al-jawfra(spelling in question) forest on the Kuwaiti/Saud border.  (some forest, there were more trees in Central park, but I digress)

I have ‘feelings’ about whats coming down the pike, and there is no ‘Nuke’ vibe in it.  If nukes are tossed around, it will be extremely localized, likely Middle East ONLY with the other big powers sitting back, keeping cool, hoping that everyone else does too. 

And in some ways, that will be a good thing: hear me out before you start screaming something about being anti-semetic or what not.    IF, Israel and Iran get all uppity and start lobbing Canned Sunshine at each other, The chances are, the Bully-boys will wipe each other out and the chance of some peace taking place, after the fact, will become more likely.   I don’t hold any illusions that it will be easy, or even long-lived, but there will always be some memory of what happens when Lines get drawn in blood and enforced with FIRE.   Essentially, SANER HEADS WILL PREVAIL.

And then the Dollar will collapse and the American people will RELEARN what made us what we were,,, Not this squeamish, commodity soaked, commercially driven tribe of Spoiled brats we have become.   There is a reason Putin ‘endorsed’ Joe Biden during his interview with Tucker. 

No prognostication here,,, just saying what my ‘Spidey sense’ is picking up: and that, yah, its probably going to be rough, but we will get through it, and be better for it.   Just gotta make it through the crucible (and fellow jarheads know of what I speak.)

Anywhoos,  more tomorrow

Keep on livin’