Dr. is amazing! It wasn't until this afternoon — after reading this — that I recognized that we're a lot alike, with our writings: When she spoke of how exhausting writing is (yet she's written 33 books)

Somehow, I think it's going to be challenging to stuff everything from the past 200+ years back into Pandora's proverbial box and dial back cumulative human existence to... what? Pre-Industrial Revolution

Close to zero? That's kind of fresh... but I guess you're barely into spring, just like we're barely into fall up here in the northern half. Looks like a nice spot to be out and about, though. Taking

It is definitely time for pumpkins! We have quite a few growing in our garden... of the eating variety, and lots of pumpkin recipes of various kinds to try out. Ours are just starting to turn orange, but

It is a system that works when the old generations have the open-mindedness to seriously examine the innovative flights of fancy of the young... and the young are taught the respect and integrity needed

I definitely do not want to be on that Doomer train. In fact, Doomers are exhausting, in much the same way as the Energy Vampire Colin Robinson, because they will insist on a three-hour lecture to explain

Very very simple, indeed. Surprisingly little in the world is not conceptual... particularly if you break it down to its finest granularity.

Yes, I'd agree with that... it's endlessly cyclical, too. People don't necessarily recognize that history is repeating itself while it is happening; still, we tend to end up with "same tune, different

Thanks for stopping by... I can relate, some days there is just so much more worthy content than I can vote on and still have it count for anything. Over the years I've come to use a fairly simple metric

Thanks for the support @ewkaw and @qurator; I really appreciate it!

Oh yeah... with day trading, you have to do your work, and you have to know what you're doing. I did that for a while, back in the late 90's and early 00's. Only traded about six tech stocks and I knew

I cannot imagine $100K for a Jeep. But then again, our daughter and son-in-law to be just bought a small "fixer-upper" in Seattle... for $530K. It's little more than an endless set of repairs

I'm just trying to maintain a balance... sometimes I am perhaps guilty of getting a little too wrapped up in the emotional and mental health part of the equation... and I have to remind myself that

Yeah, well... I just never did manage to learn that underwater breathing. I guess I must not have been a fish in any of my past lives... Funny thing is, I seldom recalled any of my dreams... I actually

Thanks for the thoughtful comment @hidave! It's interesting how we often dream a mix of cities and places in which we have lived. I often recognize my dreamscapes, even if the places are a "scramble"

Red or green pill? Or maybe the purple pill?

It's funny... we talk about stuff like that around here, quite often. What if, indeed, everything we experience and are part of is actually a self-correcting "smart machine" that causes these

That's pretty crazy! I don't know who has the money to go shopping... but I guess there are some people who do.

Happy Caturday, and happy Hiveversary! Three years is pretty impressive sticktoitiveness. Smoke finally lifted today... we had "good" air quality for the first time in 12 days.

Very useful; just took it for a bit of a *"test drive."