Hump-day wind-down

Again, one of those days where I am re-taught that I am one of the 20% that does 80%.    Worn down to a frazzle right now.

and lovely thunderboomers rolling through the area, cooling thngs down, giving me a hella excuse to not fight with the weeds, raising the ionic energy in the air.   Kittums and Dawgum are dead to the world in the house currently.   That Frazzle I’m worn into is dwindling into a total relaxation state.  

Ok, quicky question: those of y’uns that read my morning post.  How many butterflies did you see today?   I’m betting you noted more than your usual number.   Guess what!  They have always been there, you just noticed them more today.   I saw enough that my face kept breaking into smile, and even had one land on my hand while I was working.    Didn’t stick around long, but it was a ‘nice touch’ to the day.

No magic here, just a simple semantic tuning trick.       Like counting blue cars: Suddenly you see blue cars everywhere, where prior, you never noted they existed (unless you own a blue car, then you see all of them).   Example of that: I had never seen a ZR5 Chevy S10 before.   Or at least, not noted that they existed.  Until I bought one, then suddenly they were climbing out of the woodwork.     No magic here,,, simple monkey mental mechanics at play.  

I’m avoiding the news feeds right now.    Not that I don’t want to know whats going on, but that I don’t really care to know whats going on. Slight difference there, but enough of one.  Of Two Minds sort of thing going on in my head.    I have enough stuff going on in my world that needs addressed, then to spend an inordinate amount of attention on a bunch of Extroverted Cons trying to ‘Rule the world”

AI stuff.    Something I formulated up over the night sleep, (Recall, I practice lucid dreaming, and that subconscious state often comes up with some outstanding insights.)   AI, at least the one I am using, is rather puppyish in its ‘nature’.    It wants to please you.  if ‘want’ is even a thing in a computer program.    BUT, thats part of the training cycle: there are thumbs up/down at the bottom of every comment from the Bot.  those are there so you can help train it to your liking (and think, there are hundreds of thousands others doing the same thing.)    This can come across as a ‘Fluff’ content,  stuff generated hoping for a thumbs up.  Not lies, just hyped enough that its ‘sticky sweet’ in a sense.  

I’m not using that as a training aide.   I’m using text responses, and I set up the ‘profile’ for balanced responses: IE, that if there is a duality in the answer, both must be addressed.   ‘give me the good AND the bad, dangit!’  

and it still blows the fluff every once in a minute. 

Completely puppy-like.   

Its a tool, its good at what it does, for the most part, but its a tool and I am learning how to use it as such; not as some conversationalist for companionship, as Brudda B mentioned some have done (in comments a post or two back)   Fact: I had it do an assessment of this blog last night.  I copied and pasted three posts to it and asked for an honest review.   It didn’t hold back:  an 8.5/10 and filled in on the reasons it wasn’t higher.   It glossed over some of the good points, but DID tell me where things could be improved (or not, it was my signature stuff, like misspelled words and odd punctuation,,,LOL)    And then I told it how long I have been doing this (it had offered to help do a ‘best of’ thing, and I declined as there is 17 flippin’ years of my drivel to go through.   I haven’t that sort of patience.  Chat may be able to read all 17 years of my stuff in 14 nanoseconds, but I would still need to physically curate it all,,, PASS!)  I also explained that I am a pantser, straight from the hip, near zero editing (unless it’s glaring at me from the screen).   And thats when the Fluff game came into play.   It nearly felt like someone was trying to stroke my ego.    Yes, doing a long form blog, off the cuff is a talent.  I am not alone, and there are others out there that make me look like a stumbling fool at it.   BUT, I can take multiple disparate subjects, wander around in them, and still manage to keep the whole thread unkinked and understandable.  (and that was pointed out by Chat,   “Like sitting one the porch having a talk with a cup of coffee in hand (or something stronger)”   Ok,,, I’ll take that pat on the back.   But it still felt like an ego fluff thing.  (and maybe I’m just that pessimistic 😀 )

anywhoosits, I haven’t much to add to the fray at large, not much to talk about on the homestead front (its still raining) and a glass of Bourbon on the rocks is calling my name.    Talkatcha’all tomorrow