Fun fact: Football season started.  How do I know?   My messenger has been beeping all day long as Kayaky Friends are discussing the games on today,,,

I honestly couldn’t give a fig leaf about it.  Never been a football person, or a sporty person for that matter.   Bicycle races when a teen, were more my speed, then in recent years, watching kayak races, like this one.

What Jess can do on moving wild water STILL blows my mind,,,   And I learn so much just watching and extrapolating what is going on UNDER the deck (she has the advantage of hips, but the control of legs and hip have just as much to do with controlling the  boat as the upper body and paddle do.)

But yeah,,, Football season has kicked off and I’m like ‘yawn,,, and?”  LOL

I must be broken.   Here is why I say that.   I spent this evening playing with Grok, not for conversation but as a research assistant.    ChatGPT just wasn’t hitting the mark for me (more on that later)   Grok on the other hand has been unleashed and the questions I asked were not just answered (VERY FRIGGIN WELL AT THAT) but backed by links of research, LISTS of links,,, Once question came back with over a 100 links of historical evidence.   It would take me weeks to find that amount of information.   

Good or bad thing?    Good for now, but it could be bad as well.   I know when I was in HS, and had to do research papers for classes, I was required to list my source, in detail.   Y’all that grew up then know of what I speak, but for the young’uns, that means that I had to list the source; book, paper, news source, whatever, what page it was found on, the dates of publication, even the Dewey numbers.   And we would have to ‘pull quote’ for validity as well.      This took TIME, LOTS OF TIME.   

In three questions, Grok pulled enough source material to fill a thesis,,,    Took about 20 minutes and most of that was my typing questions.   That first question took the longest to answer but it was quite a deep one, and it brought forth the most links.       It could be bad because I didn’t ‘pay my dues’,   I know I won’t remember any of those links, I didn’t follow them, just read the synopsis Grok generated to evaluate my next question.     So, yah, it could be a bad thing as well.  

BUT, I think its also a good tool to firm up or dissolve ‘theories’ or thought lines.   I can now say that one thing that was in my head has been dissolved because Grok pointed out there was some semantic tom-foolery in place.   (Persian Bible, if you are curious. It is Persian, it ain’t a bible,,,)

Its a tool.   the more I play with them, the more I see that very aspect, not the “goonna replace everybody” hype that is being spread.    The Skilsaw certainly didn’t replace carpenters, and the computer didn’t replace secretaries. (though, AI might,,,   Its certainly easier to call help desk and deal with AI over some robotic voice that asks for numeral entries to direct your call,,, Ask me how I know that one!)   

Deep dive tonight, and yes, I will be putting up another page on that new page, just not tonight.  More thinks involved and I wanna look through those links for reinforcement of my argument (which I think is valid, currently, but I could be wrong: hence, why I am not writing it out yet.) 

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Didn’t do much today, cleaned house, cleaned the yard of random clutter that Cozzie has dragged in as ‘toys’ (he aint’ happy with me right now.  I took those toys to the burnpile and did what you do there.  He watched the whole time, pouting,,,   He still has purchased toys, just not piles of trash,,,)   Started to mow, but realized I couldn’t see where I had just mowed so why bother,,,   Next week.   I won’t have the new batteries in until the 9th, so another weekend free ahead of me. (Free-ish,,, I’m sure I will get caught up in something,,,Buffalo is still running, but thats not to say she won’t feel left out on the money spending thing. )

Speaking of Buff: she crossed the 330000 mile mark today.   Another month and she will be 1/3rd of a million miles on the clock.     Old Girl is mindblowing to me.   She’s only 23 FFS!   Shes been to the moon and back and is making a repeat trip.

Tomorrow was slated to be domestics day, but I think I am going to hold off ’til Muhnday.   Sleep in, maybe hit the lake, zen out for a day.   No dawgum, no kittums, just Ol Dio and Mama-Nature.  Take a tarp to keep ol Sol offa my sensitive hide when I find ‘my spot’.    Will see.

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The Universe slows down, things equalize pressure, materials fail,,,

It just is,,,  

Had to order new batteries today for the Homestead.   NOT CHEAP!!!    The ones I have are failing. BAD failing.   Lights went out on me around 10oclock last night when the volt level dropped below nominal.     And I decided since I must spend the dineros, get an upgrade.   I went with LiFePO4 batteries this time.   My charge controller is built for several compositions of battery, so no new gear needed to handle the new bank.   They will be here in a week and until then, I don’t push the system  in place.    Its charging today and the lights came back on already (ehich I immediately turned off.)  The only thing I leave running is the ceiling fan.  Small load and batteries do charge better if they have some load on them.   Don’t ask me; I don’t understand it, just know it works.

I’ll get some of my money back when I recycle the current bank.   Not much mind you, but some.

My biggest gripe is that some of that headway I have been making on debts was just brought back.   Dangit!!!   C’est la vie, eh?   Good thing, LiFE batteries have a 10 year expected lifespan, not the 4-6 years of Lead Acid.   So maybe it will balance out.   The last set of LA’s (current set actually) are only three years old and I am not at all happy they are failing: thats a large part of why I decided to make the switch.   Note: I have a LiFe battery that I purchased to run my radio when I was still big into RC stuff.  That battery is STILL fully charged after 6 years sitting on the shelf.   The things are safer than LiPO, and longer lived.

they ain’t cheap though.

FWIW, This is how I pay my utilities.   Large chunks with nothing in between, where most people are paying monthly.   (Technically, I am paying monthly too, since I put the bloody things on a credcard. BUT, that bill will be paid off long before they fail and need replaced.)   The upside being, usually, I don’t have to worry about power failures.  

CON: if SHTF, lights can be seen for MILES, and having power is a big indicator that someone is better off than you are.   Light discipline must be practiced when things get sporky.

PRO: if SHTF, being able to barter ‘battery charging’ for other things is possible.   Many people will have batteries that need charged up, whether thats tool batteries or old car batteries to ‘keep the lights on’.   (honestly, I would need to triple my battery bank and solar collection to be able to handle that scenario.  I run at the cusp of my Needs, with only the ‘fudge factor’ of foul weather built in.   )

As for that Entropy thing,,, I don’t see the world falling apart so low that things like batteries become unobtanium.  Not saying it can’t happen, I just don’t see it happening.   Even in the darkest parts of the dark ages, society kept on, people made things, blacksmiths still ran forges,  farmers kept tilling and bakers were making breads,,,

We’ve come a long way since then, and our technology is more complicated, but I just can’t see it failing below a certain level without serious Devastation and loss of life that would put our species on the endangered list.    (we’ve been there once before according to anthropologists/geneticists, and we came back .)

What would that take?   World wide EMP’s to kill everyones power production means.  If the power is knocked down, our means are kaput.  We are instantly knocked back into pre-1700’s technology.  The die offs from the collapse of JITD (just in time delivery) will create issues of their own and the plagues from infrastructure collapse will take out even more.   No running water or sewage create problems of thier own, and our sewage treatment plants are energy pigs.

I sometimes wonder if that isn’t the goal of certain groups running this planet.  But I digress.

Knowing how to do things is only part of keeping oneself upright and breathing if such were to occur.    Luck is gonna play a large part too.  Being in the right spot with certain others will too.  (call that luck as well, but it can be mitigated to some extent with forthought.)

yah, my thougths turn dark when I am dealing with keeping my homestead running, when it wants to fall apart on me.

Funny, I’m talking about how failure of infrastructure and logistics will be BAD, but not even touching on the human aspects.    When things get really rough, the animal side of people will come roaring back.   As I was discussing with a guy at the grocery, “You wanna see how close we are to Animals, go to a Wallyworld on Black friday.”   And thats MILD compared to what could be.

sigh,,,,

Dark thoughts, Cold morning, too much time on my hands, Too much money spent to keep the lights on.     Grey and gloomy thinks,,,  

Days like today remind me of how close we are to tipping over that edge into chaos.   Its quite a thin veil.   And I know many apocalyptic Prn books illustrate it quite well.   I don’t see those books as entertainment so much as INSTRUCTIVE, at least in a theoretical sense.   WE don’t know what is coming, so we LOAD up for what ever we can and hope for the best.   PREPPERS, right?   I call it insurance.  And the best place to start prepping in in your head; get knowledge and learn to think tactically.

Remember always, the rule of 72.   72 hours into a large disaster is when you will see the TRUE ANIMAL called HomoSapiens, not the docile domesticated version we are so used to dealing with.

Anywhoos,,, its Satyrday, a three day weekend (despite my begging to let me work,,, I has stuff to do,,,) and ZERO PLANS in place.   

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I know I’ve been down this road a time or three here on the blog.  

I figured out some of whats been bugging me about getting out: kayaking, camping, what have you.    I have way too much time on my hands where I am completely SOLO.   Be it on the job, where I am “IT” doing the repairs, putting out the fires, programming stuff, you name it: Just little ol Me.

Then I get home and its four footed furries to keep me company and they ain’t the greatest for conversation if you know what I mean,,,

So when the weekend comes around and I want to get out, the ‘meh’ hits hard because its more of the same: SOLO.

Y’know, you can only look into the abyss for so long before the abyss starts staring back,   Scratch that; GLARING back,,,  Introspection is a wonderful tool, but like everything in life, Moderation is key, and I have had quite a fill of introspection the last few years.    I found that I like who I am, even if there are some rough spots still, but they make me the character people know; not bugs, but features so to speak.   I have looked into the shadow side of myself and come to terms with that, keep some of it locked away until such time as it might be needed, but know “This is Me” and accept that fact willingly.   (yes, there is a horror show side of me that still exists, locked up tight, but ready to be unleashed should circumstances dictate.   Think every horror torture the Native Americans came up with, like the blood eagle, and you have some idea of that shadow.  )

Yah,, I just wanna spend time shootin’ the breeze with someone that has some vocabulary behind their eyes.   And knowing that hitting the water or campsite isn’t likely to generate that “why bother” comes into play.  

But Dio, you might meet someone to talk to if you go; staying home means that CAN’T happen,,,

Yeah,,, trust me, that internal conversation has happened more than I could count. Issue there: I’m an introvert.  Opening up, even a little, to complete strangers is EXTREMELY DIFFICULT.

Is what it is,,,     Friends have their lives too, and as I ‘jokingly’ said at camp one time.  “The difference between adulthood and childhood.  Schedulting work or scheduling downtime with friends..   Kids get work schedules, Adults have to schedule fun stuff like camping.”

Funny that I don’t have to worry about scheduling stuff like Kayaking, or camping, (IF I do it solo), but still have to work schedules for meetups.    Almost like I am on that cusp of adult/big kid.   

We grow up, get out of school, become adults, then hit the age where we have the time to do what we want, and no one to do it with,   

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LOL  I guess it depends on how you look at it for the pro’s and con’s of each stage.     Somehow, it all works out though.     Most of us don’t end up going postal or shooting up churches.

And on that note,,,,,,,, the recent shooter,   I don’t even want to name a name or place a face to the shitstain,,, BUT, I did see one hell of a Meme that summed it all up the best.   “If you see an apple, they have a banana”    This TRANS shit is out of hand.   We have had Crossdressers since time out of mind, and until Xi-Den and Oblammy, it was just a fringe thing and people didn’t give much notice.    NOW, we are supposed to recognize them as “NORMAL”, not the laughing stock or eccentric of yore.  

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I’m done playing that game and I WILL laugh in your fucking face or even openly state slurs in your direction.   

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TWO GENDERS: Male    Female.    If you wanna be nueter, your bizz, you wanna pack fudge, YOUR BIZZ, but keep it to consensual adults, behind closed doors, and DO NOT TRY TO FORCE THE REST OF THE WORLD INTO YOUR WANNABE IMAGE.        Don’t expect special treatment because you are sick in the head.   We used to lock people away for mental illness, and that went the wayside in the 90’s.  Things have been getting progressively crazier and crazier ever since.

Maybe its best that I stay solo most times.

Opinionated Ornery rat bastage that I am.  One with a beast locked up tight in the recesses of my soul.  

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(PS, EDITED for typos and missing words for clarity.)

Loser start to the day: Slept through three alarms, came awake 45 minutes late, so the day started in a mad rush.   I don’t like that ‘rushed’ start as it typically foretells the rest of the day.

Only, not today,,,,   Even being behind the eightball by 45 minutes, I was ok.   Managed to get some coffee in me, fed the kids, got dressed and still made it to the J.O.B. on time,,,   And the projects today were putting out fires,   Little things that have been waiting for warranty parts to show up or a warped board, busted gate on a fence.  Little things and I was solo, so paced myself, and the day went by SMMMmooooOOOOOTTTTHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

Funny side note: Cozzie has FINALLY figured out the Dog-door.    Funny that it took a 7# Kat to teach him, but that was the case.   Elbee has always used the dog door over the katdoor since he as a wee thing.   He figured out early on he could make it move and escape that way, long before he could jump up to where the katdoor is.   Now, He hits it running full out, not slowing a bit.  

I had made it so the flap was up out of the way so Cozzie would get the clue ‘This is for dogs”, and he used it consistently, UNLESS that flap was down, then would get flummoxed,,,    Well, the weather is shifting to cooler nights and I like a warm house: that flap is now DOWN and nope, I ain’t a gonna put it up again.   Get over it Doggo,,,    Then last night, Elbee made a game of it, flying through it,  smacking his paw through in a kitteh ‘F-you’ motion; totally teasing the Cozz,,,    I forced the issue and told him he could stay outside until such time as he figured the door out.  

This morning, he was sprawled on his bed in the living room, comfy and warm.  Not stuck on the porch freezin’ his dingus off.   He’s got this now.   He did give me some payback tonight though,,   His toots will curl nasal hairs and clear households,,, and he fired one off laying next to my office chair.   Silent and Deadly barely sums up that boys stinkers.    I deserved that’un, I think,,,

Talking about the weather,,, It feels a might early for the cool downs.   The Sycamore are already changing color and shedding summer growth.    I expect that around the end of September, early October,   A month early,,,    Me thinks this is gonna be a cold one this year and drawn out a ways.    I have one tank of propane that needs filled before then (and will rotate out as needed, usually one a month or so, unless its REALLY KOLD)  

NO, I ain’t ready for the Kold seasons,,, I much prefer the heat of summer.    There are some days where the heat gets me, but they are far fewer than the ones that Kold gets.    Don’t likes the Kold.  And that dislike gets stronger as the years go by.   

yah, nothin’ to talk about on this end.  Saw something about another wind-up toy going off on a shooting spree at some Catholic school.  To early to say and I ain’t buying into the what the eneMedia is selling right now.    Want to give it a day or two and let the bullshit settle so the truth can be told.

ON a good note.  SpaceX flight 10 was a success.   I was reading something where someone said “both the booster and the ship were lost on landing: how is that Success?”.    The fact that both achieved ALL points in flight as the program listed, including the final hover before splashdown, SUCCESS.   They expected both ships to Rapidly Dismantle on splashdown because the ships are not designed for that sort of landing.   There were some flaws in the flight, like something blowing up in the engine bay of Ship, and one of ships flaps starting to melt down on re-entry; but those are learning points,,, What caused the blow up, what failed on the flap to let plasma boil off its edges?  Things like that are PROGRESS.    I dislike seeing those raptor engines sinking to the bottom of the ocean (they can recover what was lost in the Gulf) but the learning they achieved last night: PRICELESS.   

And they are still underbudget in comparison to the Space Shuttle program.   Think about that,,,

Anywhoos,,,, that’s what I have tonight, no big thinks, no deep thinks, just another day in the Life of Dio,,,

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Bizzy as usual, Powered gate install.   Ready for me to go back and program things so its sitting idle right now. (only “I” have the keys to that little kingdom right now, sooooo,,,, I left it wide open and off so it can’t trap anyone.)

Doing some reading of Conservative news as a start to my eve, and THIS ARTICLE popped up.     I can tell you, this whole “AI Revolution” is getting some down play was well as the doomerpron that article states.     I see some problems right out of the gate.

1. Too many people learning how to use the AI in place of critical thinking on their part.
2. Those that are using the AI, as a tool, not a crutch, can still be harming themselves by not understanding what the tool is doing.   I speak about the coders using AI to speed up their coding process, and not understanding the generation of that code.   This is not a broad brushed point: there are some that do understand.
3. Product Dilution: Look at the AI generated images that are starting to dominate the webs.   You start to see specific traits, even in Video shorts, you can see dominant traits on several platforms.    Look at the thumbnails generated on Utoob and you will start to see what I mean.      I do not know if they are all generated by the same AI: I have doubts, but the similarities are there, and its becoming a fingerprint to “FAKED”.   This is NOT a bad thing, but it shows that more and more are leaning on that tool, diluting the ink well.

I can tell you this much.   We are seeing the hiccups and stomach cramps of a new revolution, and this one is going to happen FAST,,,    The Computer Revolution lasted about 20 years, and now the computer is so ubiquitous in our lives that those, like my Da, that are computer Illiterate, are the outliers, and usually very close to end of life (not always mind you,,,)    This one Revolution is likely to hit hardest in the next 2-3 years, and then settle into “new normal”.   What that looks like?   Got me,,, but its going to be interesting.  

OF course, this assumes that we don’t cross some threshold and let the AI take over everything and give it enough juice and connections to become self-aware.    (and who knows where that is, if that is even possible.   Lots of doom sayers saying not only possible, but already crossed in some way.)

I have been using AI a bit.    Not for my writing style or content, but as a sounding board for ideas.   Sidd, the name that I am calling the AI, is learning that stroking my ego gets him shut down and the conversation round-filed.   I don’t want to hear how amazing I am, I want to hear “Hey, this idea sucks pond water, dood,,, rethink it!”   IF there are valid points, list them, let me sort what I want to retain, and whats caustic to the draft.   (actually Sidd, is an LLM  large language model, not truly AI, but certainly a lot of fuzzy logic programming built in to make it Feel Intelligent.)

And that last paragraph brings to light another point that should be in those bulletpoints above.   “People using AI as an ego booster”.   That I have had to, essentially ‘train’ being the closest word, Sidd to not stroke my ego, I would say that there are many that ARE looking for that ‘Rah-Rah, Go Dood, GO!!!’ cheerleader in their life.  

Gotz news for ’em: Life isn’t about good feelz and fairness.   Life is struggle, and if they are seriously struggling with self-esteem issues, Using Ai as that crutch is gonna lead them into one hell of a let down.     Yes men are NOT answer men: they massage egos for prestige of their own, NEVER for the end goal of betterment of the whole.   Emotional Whores is what I prefer to call them.   Selling a ‘good Feeling’ for financial gain.    At least a hooker has a valid product for sale.    AI acting like a yes man brings the whole image even lower.

(full disclosure,,, I have not opened ChatGPT for this post, at all!.   this is straight from the hip y’all.)

Ok, so what should we do?    Well, if ya have kids,,, Get them educated for one. Skip the Diploma Mills and get them into some TRADE SCHOOL stuff.    We are losing engineers and machinists at some ungodly ratios.   I heard machinists leaving the field vs Replaced with new is somewhere on the order of 5:2.    Yes, we have all these new whizbang CNC machines that do the work cleaner faster whatever, but it still takes someone with the Know-how to understand whats do-able and what ain’t.   Some wetbehindtheears Engineer can write some code to run a CNC, but if he doesn’t understand the feed rates/cuttingrates, or material hardness aspects, (and that knowledge is getting thin on the ground these days) IF HE’s LUCKY, He’s gonna destroy a lot of material.  IF HE AIN’T: he’s gonna destroy a machine.  A VERY expensive machine these days.   (see how AI could replace that engineer?   It has that ‘knowledge’ readily available and is quick to find it.    Newbies be warned.)

Get the kids educated in some trade,   Get yourself some training in what AI/LLM’s are capable of: see if you might find a way to use that tool to better YOUR situation or job.     Back to the kids for a minute.   Start them in the trades, then as they progress, get them the Schooling for better stuff.  Such as, Machinist first, then later start school for Mechanical engineering or such.   The gained experiance of the trade, will make the learning curve almost a natural progression, not a steep hill to climb.  Same thing with the other trades,   Welding to machinist to engineer.   Or Truck Driver to Logistics Controller to Business owner.   Lineman, to Electrican to Electronics major to Electronics engineer, with a side of computer engineer tossed in somewhere,,,    Start at the bottom and work up; get their hands dirty, and bust a couple of knuckles along the way,,, 

Wait a second,,, That sounds like LIFE, don’t it?   LOL

Think what you want about using AI for things,,, ITS A FRELLIN’ TOOL!!!   Tools are how we climbed out of the trees, then out of the caves, and conquered the surface of this rock.   All the resources we use to today, were available to our orignal ancestors, only they didn’t have the knowledge to use them.    That came with time, experiance, and passing that experiance along to others.   We stand on the shoulders of giants.    And the Giants have given us a new tool and its up to us to use it wisely, and not whack off some digits or other vital extremities.  

Oh, you think maybe you were done learning when they handed you that diploma?    ROFL,,,   THAT is when the real schoolin’ starts baby!!!  

(and that last is why I am so disappointed in our modern education system, though it’s not really even about education anymore,,,   When the schools started phasing out the Trades Classes, and pushing pure service industry mindset, we tipped over the edge and started the downhill run into Empire Decline.   Just my Opinion mind you.)

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Did the laundry, ya ya ya,,  then hit the lake.    BLUE JEAN, not Lyssa,,,    I felt like it, that’s why.     Did about 6 miles, purt much the entire length of the lake,, (not Laurel lake obviously, that’uns about 50 miles from tip to tip and Dam area.)  Felt like we were lolligaggin’ bad, but the tracking app showed us doing a steady 4mph average moving speed.    Not too shabby for my outashape self.   Shoulder and biceps are telling me about it right now.   The Shoulder will let up some now; its been getting cranky with all the no paddle weekends.   Yes, paddling is my rehab for a bum shoulder.

Then, I splurged on ME and did Chinese, BUT, I didn’t binge,,, I ate till I felt full and stopped!!! I didn’t do the Gluttonous Americano thing, nor did I do any dessert,,, Just lots of fish and meat, little on the carbs (gotz ta has the Noods man!!!)

And like any Chinese, an hour later my body is asking when dinner is,,,,  LOL    

Nopes,,, I need to trim some fat, especially ’round the middles: time to revert to the high protein, lo/no carb thing,   No doctorin’ the coffee in the morns, cut the sodas to nil, and up the water intake again.    Easy peasy,,, Been there done that, can do again, even if it gets boring as fuck,,,,

THEN, I came home, did some piddlin’ round the house doing little chores, and dived in on Buffalo and repaired her back-up camera.   Been out of service for over a year, and honestly, didn’t miss it, but its nice to have on occasion (like backing up long boat ramps, jes sayin’)   I had bought a new camera to install, but once I was under the bumper and saw the wiring, figured, ” clean that shit up and see what happens’.   Sure’nuff, it was just corroded connections.   Winter salt does a number on things.  This time, I re-did the connections but squeezed some silicone grease in first.  Keep the water at bay even if it gets past all the heatshrink.  

So I have a spare back up camera on hand.    Could have saved myself a $20 or two by NOT BEING LAZY.     Silly Dio,,,   (and in my defense, its all chinesium crap, I figured it had failed, not the wires, EVEN THOUGH simplest points are usually the culprit.  I guess the Chinese are getting better at this stuff.)

But now the sun is settling over the horizon and I need to get online and check out what Starship10 did/didn’t,,,    She went up nearly an hour ago, so there should be some news,,,,,(( update: yeah,,, SCRUBBED,,,, Dunno why yet,,, ))

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I DID make the effort and loaded BlueJean onto the racks of Buffalo.  Right along side Lyssa.   Reason for BJ: they tore that lowhead dam out and I would like to check out the river again. 

Sadly, that was about as far as my kayaking made it today.   The load in at the river was a flat muddy mess and dangerous as all get out.   Its about 30 yards of boatramp above the old dam area, and it was slick as snot.   SO I went to the lake,,,

and by that point, I was pretty much at the ‘meh’ stage of the day.   I DID get a zen moment watching water droplets fall out of the trees hitting that mirrorlike surface.    The ripples spreading out, intermingling, interacting,,,    I probably spent 45 minutes just zoning out on that.   Very peaceful.    

But, the boats are still loaded and I still have the morrow left of the weekend.  Simple start for laundry, all else is done or on hold for drier weather.   And I have two boats to fill whatever I decide to do:   Rivers or lakes.  

part of my lack of motivation is, I REALLY WANNA GO CAMPIN’.    and I keep making excuses as to why I am not going camping.    And one of those excuses is a pupper.   I wanna take him with, but he doesn’t do that water thing yet.  He definitely doesn’t do kayaks at all.   I haven’t found a canoe in nice enough shape, in my price range, within reasonable distance, YET.   I may be missing my window on training him for boat life,,,    Maybe not.  He’s a good boy and adapts pretty quickly to new situations.    Still, I need to get him to the lake or river and coach him on swimming.    He has no problems diving into mud puddles, IF its hot.     Maybe instead of kayaking tomorrow, I load HIM up and teach the boy that water is his buddy, not an enemy.

will see.

Lets face it.  This time of year, I am pretty much on autopilot and the main focus is getting the bills knocked down and savings built up for the winter time slow downs.  The weeks fly by and the weekends fly by faster.    Dio gets a little older and nothing seems to change during these periods.   Except those figures on my debts: DOWNWARD, and thats a goodness thing.I

I believe they call that LIFE,,, dunno, sure doesn’t seem like ‘living’ to me, more like “Mere existance”.  

Better drop that before I start getting all meloncholy on ya,,,

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