Side effects,,,,
Between the Carnivore diet (Lots of extra energy, clearer thinking) and BLOO-Twuck, and maybe more thinkin’ time on my hands with longer nights,,, I find my mind RACING along “CREATE” modes.
Just the last week, the desire to build another Kayak has been on my ‘resting’ mind, as well as another ‘hobby’ from even further back: BOWS.
FYI, I spend about an hour a night on the Erg, and I spend another 30 minutes or so bending bows, throwing arrows (IF the light is good, some evenings this gets left out for lighting reasons.) There are other things I do to keep my physique tuned (and they are ALL getting easier as the fat rolls off the middle and other areas,,,) but those two have the added bonus of getting creations going.
I want to build a new Greenland style boat, but not a skin on frame. I DO want to use the skin on frame as my ‘plug’, but I want a composite boat. Thinking the old design that I used on Serena as my plug to build from. Being a plug, I can cut some corners (no need of 20+ ribs) and use cheaper materials for the frame.

But the BOW,,,, That one, that is getting wilder and wilder in my head. 54″ horse bow, Hungarian Style, Composite limbs. And to break from tradition, a center cut body and molded grip. Use Beech for the Siyahs as I like the extremely fine grain of it (and its stronger than Oak in some ways, without the weight of Oak.) Thinking 45-50# draw weight at 28″ (my usual draw length) Not super-bow weights, but legal to use for hunting in all but one of the 50 states ( I Believe Alaska requires at least 50+ and depending on WHAT you are hunting, I can understand why. Wouldn’t want to piss off a Grizz by poking it with a sharp stick and NOT drive that sharp stick DEEP inside.)( I seem to remember Fred Bear took a Kodiak with one of his recurves weighted at 70# and swore he wouldn’t try again with anything less.)
Why a Horse bow? There is something about the way they look,,, Sexy and deadly at the same time. Think Cupids Bow and you have a good idea of the shape they take when strung.

When they aren’t strung, they have this crazy forward lean that defies normal tillering concepts like those used in Long bows or American Recurves. BUT more than that, I like their “Snap”. Because the way the Siyahs shorten the actual string length on release, they have a snap that compares to that of a Compound bow. really REALLY fast arrows, Faster than with a Recurve and makes the speed from a longbow seem like a slow truck. Fast arrows shoot flatter. Fast arrows can beat the “jump” that can frustrate a hunter. (Deer will jump if they hear a bow ‘snap’, and sometimes, that jump is enough to cause a full MISS.)
But Dio, why not just buy a compound and get all the bells and whistles of ‘sights’ and fast arrows, and adjustable draw weights? BECAUSE, those things can break, and leave you walking out of the woods pissed off. Sights can get thrown out of adjustment in a slip-sliding traverse of a gulley, AND, I have always been something of a traditionalist when it comes to bows. Carrying an 8# bow??? May as well be carrying a rifle, and if I am going that route, a rifle would be prefered,,, (also, I don’t stand hunt, I stalk: an 8# bow with all the other gear I carry,,, UGH!)(most compounds use metal for the main body, that metal can numb your hands with a quickness. Wood bodied (even composite made) are ‘warm’ and won’t freeze your digits off.)
But a bow, a traditional style bow (even if using modern composites and techniques) will work, everytime, leaving the ‘well that didn’t go as expected’ to my form and and release. And there is a certain satisfaction to be had when you make that 70yd shot, straight to the ribcage, with nothing but a “stick and string”. (I make my own strings too. There are a couple of posts from way back when, when I was making bows from PVC pipe and fishing string. I really like the braided strings for the serve and the monofiliment for the wrappings. Makes for one TOUGH string, AND, as survival tool, I always make two strings for a bow: one reason being, strings can get broken, but also, I have about 15-20 yards of high test fishing line in one string, if things get really desperate.)
Will I make either? Or both? Time will tell. Right now, my finances are all tied up in paying the bills, and getting BLOO-Twuck running. Then, paying off all the debt getting BLOO-Twuck running. Once that is out of the way, will see. BUT THE MIND NEVER STOPS,,,,
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Backstage at the Workshop
I must admit, there is a certain amount of ‘discomfort’ for me, when it comes to this podcast thingie,,, I have never been one for the limelight: thats why I chose the support field of Audio Production over ‘bein’ on stage’.

T’was a muhnday,
and like a muhnday, it managed to get right around me a’fore I could wrangle that beastie down. Didn’t get much of anything accomplished.
Apologies to y’all for not posting something,,, then again, I did put up quite a bit of content over the weekend, so t’ain’t like ya didn’t have anything to chew on,,,
(more…)Freeday!
its that time of year again, things are slowin’ up in the J.O.B.
So yesterday, Son of Bossman came by my site where I was with a crew putting up decorative fencing and let us know that ‘don’t worry about coming in tomorrow. Text dad and let him know when you cut loose so he can cut your checks for you.”
sigh,,, Was rather lookin’ forward to a full week, or nearly full week.
(more…)Listening
“By listening, one will learn truths: by ‘hearing’ one will only learn half truths.”
Corollary: By speaking, one only reinforces ones half truths. (you must listen as well)
Doing MUCH MUCH listening of late
don’t like what I am hearing.
Not mine to like you might say; ‘is what it is,,,’ (Gah!!! How I hate that saying!)
Camping weekend ahead,,, short one as I am not leaving until the J.O.B. is wrapped up tomorrow, whenever that may be.
AAAAaaaannnnndddddd
in serious consideration of leaving the phone in the Buffalo on the charger: don’t/won’t need it and DO NOT want the weekend spoiled by things. I very much need the distraction of friends
and WATER TIME.
Already had one good weekend shot to hell with a single phone call,,,, Don’t wanna let it become a trend. If’n some one needs me, they can wait until I ‘log back in’ to the matrix,,, Short of the world blowin’ up (which I think even disconnected, would know about) nothing will happen that can’t wait until such time as I am back in grid.
Y’all take care, keep on livin’, give a good laugh at the decline and keep pissin’em off by refusing to give up.
sumpin a little different
(in honor of the holiday)
I’ve talked about my beliefs here a time or two. I would like to point you to a post by Francis first,,, GO read please
I’ve said I am more pagan than christian, and a lot of that has to do with how the Roman Catholics absconded certain holidays to ease reforming the pagan religions. Easter was spring rite, Hallows Eve was another,,, Saints day, same, you name, there is a pagan equivalant somewhere. Not going to go into that too much, just pointing out that there were some things like that in the faith that made me begin questioning the integrity of the whole.
Fact is, the whole argument is a negative assumption, not provable, not disprovable. Too many points where witnesses outnumber the written facts, but, as Francis points out in that article; those that would be writing down the events were under different constraints, different motives, different GOALS,,, Those that wrote the events as described in the bible and other records were the devote, and those that were not, might have been impelled to massage or outright quell the event ‘for reasons’,,,,
It wasn’t until I started diving into Quantum mechanics (and I am no expert by any degree, just an avid hobbiest at best) that I started to put some questions to myself that started to add up, along with the beliefs of the Christian faith to ‘THAT MAKES SENSE NOW’ There are still aspects that I take as “propaganda manipulation’ and I think I am justified in that since Religion in all its aspects is about as old as the human race is,,, some say the oldest profession ever (harlotry being the second,,,,) And why not, those that were smart enough to scare the tribal leaders, but weak enough that they needed an edge; sure, make up some mumbo jumbo about spirits that do evil if you don’t do this,,,etc etc etc,,,,
Funny how that works out to “maybe there IS a bit of truth out there”. Such as boiling water, or not eating pork, We know now why those are correct, but back in 500BC, how did the clerics of the Jews know,,, Simple observation and deduction; then twist in a bit of starry eyed reverence and make it Taboo for relgious reasons,,, Yeah, I might be putting some bias in my thinking since I hold little regard for organized religions.
More wars, death and misery have come from the various religions over time. Will again if things continue along certain paths,,,, The Crusades were never ‘finallized’ ya-know,,,,
But let me pass on all of that for a moment. Let me tell ya how I started to ‘come around.’ The whole Quantum Cloud thing started making me formulating my theory that we are “interfaces” or, to parrot a movie “Avatars” of our quantum selves, that we visit this realm for lessons, or vacation, or something, but that, due to the nature of the physical, we can’t bring all of our aspects with us, like our REAL memories. (and that explains some of the stories of very young children having “wierd memories” that they lose very quickly as they gain deeper harmony with the world around them. I know there are ‘memories’ that I have, that ‘aren’t mine’ perse,,, Things that there is no way I could have experenced the events I recall, and details that can’t be ‘explained away’. I won’t go into that here though.)
Now, we have this quantum cloud thing that is slowly being proven as fact, we know that the quantum do not ‘recognize’ time, or space like most particles and atoms, we know and have (mostly) proven and disproven many theories in quantum mechanics,
but there is one aspect that rings true across two places. One is the research itself, the other is the bible. THe deeper we look, the more we find and that rabbit hole looks to be infinitely deep. There is a quote in the bible of “the deeper you look, the more you will find ME.” (and apologies, I do not recall where that quote is ot to whom those words were intended, but I firmly recall hearing/reading them in my past. Maybe someone more learned in such things than myself can enlighten us in comments)
There is also the fact that more and more Quantum scientists, who usually start of as athiest or agnostic, become quite firmly Christian in short order,,, I don’t think that is accidental, or conspiracy, I think they find “Faith” is the ultimate answer at the end of the day,
Why? Because the more they uncover, the less the ‘rules’ work,,, Something directs those particles to do what they do (and why the search for the “God Particle’ is ongoing.) And that time and space are seemingly meaningless to the particles,,, Like Tachyons, that are ALWAYS detected BEFORE a nuclear reactor starts; almost as if it travels backwards in time,,,, There was some discussion in a group of friends about creating a nuclear war sensor using tachyon dectecton. but was shot down fast, since the detection is usually in microseconds,,, thats too short a time frame to be of use against nuclear war,,,,
Let me make a suggestion, totally hypothetical on my part. What if our history that we call ‘our history’ back to such and such a point, isn’t COMPLETE? That there is lost knowledge from long before our written histories, (and there is evidnce of this in some of the Seven wonders of the world) And that those that came before some collapse that didn’t make it thorugh to the pages we know, (like some epic flooding or something,,,) that was MUCH MORE IN TUNE with the quantum realm. Look around for the Circle of Life markings, that show up with regular frequency, all around the world, in archeology.
And what if some of that knowledge DID make it through and became religous teachings,,, such as the Chakras of asiatic medicine. We DO KNOW that the Old Testament is taken from the Torah of Jewish heritage. What we don’t know (but can make the assumption) is how much of that was orginially and STRICTLY oral traditon? and for how long? What was lost in translation? How much was INTENTIONALLY lost in translation because some group didn’t like some aspect?
No one knows. I don’t believe anyone can know because any that would be guilty of such have been dust longer than the tablets and scrolls ‘the word’ was taken from.
Keep the important stuff, cull the dregs,,, except someones definition of dregs might have held something important, that tied other things together, and the rot would spread,,,,,
And I digress,,,
What we know, and this is still growing: muscle memory is real. ‘Gut instincts/gut feelings’ are real. We know that what was thought of how the brain functions is woefully inadequate to explain what it actually does, and that its not just what is held within the cranium, but along much of that path as described in the Chakras. Either the ancients were far better at physical observation than we (YES!) or they were privy to communications with God/Creator/Author/The Cloud, that we are not.
and oh, you have no idea how that “why?” goes through my brainium in the wee darks,,,,,
Let me talk about the person that this day is in honor of, his death to be precise. Died on the cross, laid in a tomb, rose from the dead, appeared before congregations of people (supposedly world-wide by some modern peoples beliefs.) than ascended to heaven.
One thing that keeps coming back is how Christ, was not a solitary individual, but a TRINIITY,,, God, Son and the Holy Ghost. That could be another way of saying “strongly connected to the cloud” in words to convey an idea that didn’t exist at that time. Just my thoughts on that, BUT, that many many witnesses of the events prior, the miracles, then the roll out of events after death,,,, All could be explained by someone that was strongly connected to the quantum realms and able to manipulate the particles that have no respect of time or space, and that make up MATTER,,,, If I had that sort of ability, Yeah, I could make water solid enough to walk on, or ‘create’ food at will, I could see/sense illness and affect the causes of it and CURE the afflicted,,,, I could stall the separation of the quantum chord and my body, so that I could reanimate it. I would imagine the release of energy to do that would be strong enough to alter cloth so that it could form an image,,, (the shroud for those in question)
I can also see how some Groups in Power at the time would not want such word spreading to widely or at all. (the lack of records of a person of Christs’ nature by the Romans who were meticulous records keepers.) And that explains much of why the disciples were “outlaws” and treated as such when caught. And maybe Christ was able to pass on some of his ability/nature/whatever it is, on to his disciples, so that they too, could effect miracles (and were recorded as doing such in a few cases)
Maybe what he taught them was that ‘This reality isn’t real, only your thoughts are,,,,”
And that takes a HEADY amount of faith to transcend into.
So, lets make a small assumption that there is some meat on the bones of my hypothesis,,,, WHAT IS HEAVEN? WHO/WHAT IS GOD? Where does ‘Hell’ fall into this line of thinking? Start with the first one, and that one leads into the second, and THIS IS ALL MY OPINION, but it works for me and keeps my spirit/soul content,,, (faith!)
Heaven is THE CLOUD, a Cloud of Quantum material that is scattered about the universe. Its not ‘visible’, only recently been detectable, and no one knows just how big or dense or, well, nothing much known, and leave it at that. BUT, if that cloud were consolidated thoughts of creatures, than the cloud is US,,,, ALL OF US,,, some more complicated than others, some less, some more intune with things, some fast, some slow: and when I say “US”, I mean every single human, furrie, fish, plant, and rock. EVEN THE EARTH (though I have yet to figure out how that would work,,,,but Gaia does ‘vibrate’ and show long movements as if alive so to speak.) “Heaven” would then be that cloud where we combine with the group, share our experiances, whiz about the universe and do different things as different sorts of beings.
So WHO/WHAT is GOD? We are,,, even here, where we are but a miniscule part of our real selves, we make up a part of that thing called Heaven and Heaven IS God,,,, WE were created in his image, and in doing so, we took a part of him as ourselves,,,, TO ABUSE THAT IS THE WORST SIN!!!
Is that blasphemy? Probably to some, but I find peace in it, and I have used it to ‘correct’ some wayward drogues I had the ‘pleasure’ of being in close contact with. Prefacing that idea as “we are all GOD, and we need to act as such” really seemed to hit them sideways with a clue bat. That could be part of that ‘heady amount of faith’ to transcend into.
Now, What the Hell is Hell? Hmm,,,, First off, the whole idea of Hell really was what turned me off from the teachings when I was a kid. For the preacher to say “God is unbridled love” then to follow it up with “but you’ll burn in hell for,,,,,” Let me just say that a 6YO could see the fallacies and discrepencies in the teachings,,,, Now, with that in mind, I do think GOD has some way of punishing us (we punish ourselves really) and that way is, IN SOME INSTANCES, Right here,,,,, On earth,,, we get tortured, torn, destroyed mentally and spiritually, RIGHT HERE< RIGHT NOW, at least some of us do. I can think of one right now, that even though he knows the solution, can not back out of his personal Hell,,,, He may go his entire life in that Hell,,, And as a quantum being, that knows neither time nor space,,, that may seem like an eternity,,, OR even the blink of an eye, and I would imagine the CLOUD has some say in the perception. So, yeah, I think in some ways, Hell is right here, right now, and those of us that seem ‘middlin’ in pain and discomfort are in the Purgatory side of things, Learning some lesson that needs learned for whatever purpose,,,
And IMO, those purposes are to make us ‘closer to God’.
And some of us have a long road ahead to that end. Maybe even multiple trips ‘here’ to do so. (explains the reincarnation side of Eastern philosophies, no?)
I think all religions older than ‘the birth of Christ’ have some merit and are tied together in some way shape or form. Most of those after that fact are either factions of an older one, or some silliness created in a cave by some loser pedophile who was on the run,,,, Most of the modern religions (like evangligcal baptists herebouts) seem twisted to me and really buried in dogma that contradicts the purpose of a religion. My opinion, YMMV.
And I will leave you with those thoughts for the day,
((as for the “Demons” and other agents of evil,,,, All I have to say on that is “They are real” and you only need to look around to find it in action. That aspect is covered by ‘fallen angels’ and such: they are the same as us in fact, but warped maligned and dangerous to the GOOD,,,,))



