misc thoughts

Well, I did the three things I had hoped to accomplish before heading to work and some. Finished cleaning the Neon with vacuums and scrubbers(used two of each). Put together B's new bicycle. Mowed the back lawn. Loaded most of dishes in sink into dishwasher. Washed Neon* so that looks like came off a lot.

I didn't finish dishes because I had to get to work early to use my associate card. Technically I was at work when I washed my car, but I hadn't clocked in yet. Amazing what a premium car wash can do to a car's finish, it just buffed all the scuffs and minor scratches invisible. Mike's Carwash is great to cars. Not sure I'd pay the $17, but it's worth it when considering how lousy a handwashed car looks in comparison. Then again, other places do it for less, but I'm too cheap to compare the competition.

J seemed to think well of my accomplishments of solitude. She brought back a pie from her folks that was all mine since no one wanted apple. Sadly, I didn't expect it to be in box that said "baked in store" upon it. At least it wasn't made in China, I guess. Apple Pie is good, regardless of its preparation most of the time(Hostess "fruit pie," for example, is edible in a yummy animal fat sort of way).

AW, had a great day, all and all. Saw the Cordery family at Americana Festival, so they got to meet the rest of my beautiful family and K. They reiterated the cookout as being family friendly, but I doubt J and K would be comfortable there. I'm gonna bone up on small arms so I can follow conversations less ignorantly.

Nothing is as American as apple pie, supposedly, and I found myself wondering what a friend of mine posted upon her FB timeline. I'm not sure what it was, but I fear it was French toast. Last year, Boom posted pics of his fam, and one of his silly daughters wore shirt donning a Union Jack!  Have you seen Boom's mugshot? It's better than all of his selfies, I think, but I could be wrong and just plain mean.

J doesn't FB. She doesn't do a lot of things, but she is a good mother. I wonder how she'll be as an aunt. Not sure how I'll be as an uncle. I'll be a better uncle than any K has, is all I can shoot to be. The bar has been set so low.

I wonder how long I can go without blogging. Not going to try anything, just pondering... I only check FB for messages from former Hookers and I check Twitter for the fascinating trips LSD always seems to take. I could give up FB and Twitter, since everyone has my number or email if I am needed to be reached, I suppose.

Why anyone leaves the home fascinates me, so I'm lucky to be with J. Her reasons for venturing out are very simple logical reasons.

I wonder if there's a term for friendships that social media distort in significance. I mean I can be gone from the face of the Earth, then boom, there every day or so like time never passed or shifted or quaked. Transitioned?

Was tempted to say random thoughts as post heading, but that would suggest thoughtlessness as a motivator of much of the musings which were explicitly confined to real events significant to today (now yesterday).

Lorde helped me clean my car. Not sure about all the tennis references, though. Lorde only knows, I suppose.

contraception insurance coverage provided by closely held corporations

When did pregnancy become a disease? I mean aside from ghosts impregnating teenagers with future zombies.

Read some humorous tweets making the SCOTUS decision involving Hobby Lobby seem like the world is coming to an end.

If you ever tried to shop at Hobby Lobby on Sunday, then you'd know they have a certain culture that isn't driven solely by "corporate greed." If you don't agree with their worldview, then shop at Michaels and pray hope that don't have another credit card breach.

AW "closely held" will be defined as being 90% of corporations by the likes of MMFA. Seriously, they tweeted it but didn't link to anything supporting their claim. I wonder if they are including all LLCs that are "family-owned" or all unincorporated sole proprietors for that matter. The ACA exempts businesses which employ less than 50 fulltime employees, while over 90% of U.S. firms employ less than 20 fulltime employees. The latter statement makes MMFA's claim regarding the immediate significance of the SCOTUS decision moot given 90% businesses could already opt out of providing any health insurance thus ANY FREE CONTRACEPTION covered by company sponsored insurance plans.

You know that people are ignorant of fact when they start saying vasectomies are covered by insurance as though the vasectomies are FREE like the contraceptives were mandated to be.

Mandate is ironically funny term for use regarding contraception, isn't it? I mean, a woman usually needs contraception when she has a man-date that ends in the bedroom, yet not with a woman-date that goes to that same climatic end. Hmmm....

Only homophobic bigots can support free contraceptives, one could argue.

you don't have to be... but helps.

I lied. My phone is set to go at 4:05am (DST). I awoke to THE VELVET UNDERGROUND LYRICS - Run Run Run - on iheartradio's The Velvet Underground & Nico channel.
Today, I was more aware of my VU wakeup, hence my recollection.
The blog theme of this morning is masochism... yes, I awoke to Venus in Furs.
AW, a while ago, my employer had new signs made for the lot stating its award as one of the "Best Employers in Ohio." I wondered if companies intentional hired masochists to achieve such distinction. I know I took a personality test as part of the hiring process...

why I'd be a lousy President

If I hadn't mentioned it, I'm an ENTP. If you have met me and know me well, then you really don't have to google the type of personality an ENTP has.

thoughts about phones

Having a landline is quaint. Smartphones are the standard. Back in the day Nokia was big, then Blackberry, then Apple iPhones... the idea of minutes and long distance are becoming novel ideas as well.
I've never held a smartphone. I was slow to embrace texting three years ago, so a qwerty handset with a meh camera that looked like the old Blackberries is what I've had since we got a texting plan.
EMPs would do more damage to America than a dirty bomb given the dependence upon personal entertainment devices, one could conclude. Reminds me of a novel I was writing that I had only finished the final page. The premise was that the V-chip was a small detonator meant to kill anyone within a couple yards of the television when a universal detonator went off. Clever idea? Dr. Who had something similiar only an antipolution device terraformed Earth's atmosphere habitable to aliens and not humans.
I wonder how much the factory workers make in China. Way things get depicted, a cellphone is the product of all things evil, yet we all most have one.

thoughts on general world of Thursday

I read an article about deer being hunted in a park and said dead deer being fed to the homeless via charities. I am not sure the point of the story's existence. Is it anti-homeless? Is it anti-hunting? Almost get the impression that perhaps the tone would be more uplifting if the park services was hunting the homeless and feeding their carcasses to whatever eats meat in the park(maybe deer? You think I jest but I once saw a squirrel gnawing on a chicken bone on top of a "dumpster" outside Ohio Stadium. I thought nothing of it since the animal looked content, but squirrels aren't known for their chicken loving ways, are they?).

End of XP support

Well, the day has come that I will cease to use a certain machine for blogging. Not sure what will replace it, but a tablet will probably be what it will be given my annoyance with MICROSOFT. Seeing that my internet has been slow and Cincinnati Bell has been no help, I am looking into new connectivity options as well.

Just as I'm in a good place with my contact with the outside world, I'm being forced to be reclusive at my peak times of social productivity. Meh. Guess it must be a sign that I should be prioritizing other matters, like my beautiful 3 month old daughter.

Maybe I need to start being more physically active and eating better until I have the means to fully embrace mindless elements of my various interests?

general thoughts on the end of the world, and how I feel fine.

Read an article about the UN's ICCP projection for global temperature increase by 2100 and the "stupidity" of geo-engineering concepts to counteract the greenhouse effect.

There's a model or two regarding plankton. One idea is about sending a reflecting mirror into space.

None of the ideas mocked mentioned garden hoses towards the stratosphere or so pumping clouding materials that would cool the earth much like the ash cloud from a volcanic eruption (the scenario is explained better in the squeal to Freakonomics, Superfreakonomic).


As far as I'm concerned, 2100 is a far distant time from now and blaming carbon fuels for the climate change is interesting when I recall there was a time carbon fuels were expected to be completely depleted sooner than later when I was growing up in the 80s. I'm also quite aware of the supposed polar magnetic shift and of the super volcano that is Yellowstone National Park.

All of the above three scenarios voids my concerns regarding man made global warming. Overpopulation fears are as vogue as they were twenty years ago, as they were twenty years prior to then (there's a 20 year fear cycle that each generation much experience, I guess).

The world's population is 7,149,500,000-ish.The below table doesn't project into 2100, but the population practically tripled in the last 65 years. Humanity gives off CO2 as a byproduct, which gets overshadowed by the evil consumption of fossil fuels by power plants and automobiles. Surely a world event will occur causing chaos like the 1918 Spanish Flu or the typhus epidemic that wiped out the likes of Annabel, if not another stupid world war(I'm looking at you China with your disproportionate male to female population).

Then there's always the possibility other calamities like an asteroid or Gamera coming from beyond space to destroy all that is known.