"An aggressive military..."

                                            a rather nice looking insect which may be a fly

                                              i have seen several of these always near ant holes

            i put a shovel into the ground and saw a bunch of webbing and this spider crawled out

 before being coaxed into the bottle this spider jumped and ran (could stretch its legs and touch the edges of a 50 cent piece...big but not scary big)

                                     one of these fellows ambles through the camp every day

                                     desert iguana loving the 95 degree weather...not me too hot

listened to joan armatrading last night as i looked out into cloudless desert sky...if there is a better female vocalist ain't heard her...particularly like "Willow" and the lyrics on "The Weakness in me" are killer...

watched a good "Firing Line" segment called "Was Gandhi for Real" with a couple of gandhi experts...interesting look into the complicated life of a so called saint...

so now an Olympic gold medal will be worth $50,000...it should be interesting what shows up to get the loot...i heard that one school (maybe all school) will not allow students to have cell phones while in class...i was told to "confiscate" the phones of the people under my tent when i was working as a safety "advisor" on the BP oil spill...i refused to do so and mentioned the constitution (little things like that) and they wanted to fire me for "disobeying a direct order"...things got weirder and eventually i had to leave due to the harassment...phones are very useful tools and should be respected as such...

i picked up a big (1187 pages) book on the english lanuage...which has some rather obscure information in it...such as.."Hamartia"=a tragic flaw that causes the death of the hero in a play or novel                                                "Rhotacism"=uvular northumbrian burr= a special excessive or idiosyncratic use of rolling "rs"

heard with disbelief that due to the baltimore bridge collapse a company which services boats has had an increase in business and now will 'ASPHALT 40 ACRES!" to facilitate this increase..damn thats a lot of asphalt!

"An aggressive military strategy is also an effective evolutionary strategy" Nicholas Longridge evolutionary biologist writing on the dominance of Homo sapiens (it is probably also an undoubtedly effective way to implement the extinction of said species)