elk footprint in the sand
i see a lot more people with their campers since the tree trimmers built roads to get the felled trees out the elks might feel a little crowded now....i think this elk is mainly feeding at night now...the gun goobers decided they needed to creep down to where i was to fire their guns...then creep little closer and fire them some more...even though there were fire prevention restrictions against firearms discharge...as if that were not enough noise a large group of people with large speakers decided the quiet of the forest needed to be eliminated....and the music was all in spanish....maybe some of the pushy cartels from down south...very impolite....the untimely deaths of so many people from the flooding in texas of course required some people to look for someone to blame...gravity is to blame...the same hills and geography have existed there for hundreds of thousands of years at least...water flows downhill...always has...as has been pointed out before the extremes in rainfall, temperature and wind will increase....take precautions accordingly....so i am getting two different messages from the news media....one day it is the danger of Artificial Intelligence taking away millions of jobs...the next day it is the decrease in human population due to people making the decision to have fewer or no offspring resulting in vital jobs not getting done...somehow i think both of these so called problems are very solvable...i still limit any conversation with a machine just in case they might put me in a data base for future retribution...."i can't do that dave"....i was glad to see that i was not the only person to condemn the fellow who put his five year old daughter on the rail of a ship and let her fall into the ocean...parental neglect at best...alligator Alcatraz...i have spent a fair amount of time in that area and the alligators are the least of the problems....the mosquitos can be horrendous even in the winter and of course the dengue fever is rampant there as well as several other diseases... however is is pretty and has lots of birds... but the 450 million dollar yearly paycheck is hard to turn down...i did see a long haired native (probably miccosukee) from the area condemn the idea... once when i was camping around there i talked to a long time resident and asked her why they called the area north of the everglades "big cypress" and she said there use to be lots of big cypress trees until they cut them all down and never bothered to plant any trees to replace them...maybe they could get the "detained" people to plant trees...in my experience it seems that all the financial cuts to medical treatments might facilitate in the implementation of more digitizing of records...every time i go to a doctors office i need to fill out several pages of the same questions i was asked last time...streamlining could be done without neglecting health care...i have mixed feelings about supporting mr e. musk proposed america political party...a third party might wield a lot of power...i think A. Hubermans youtube presentation "How marijuana affects your brain and body" (21 min) should be required viewing for anyone wanting to use THC/CBD...i never knew that there was a difference in how different strains of plants effected different parts of the brain...this just in: jimmy swaggart is still dead... i saw RFK jr. on the "diner days" podcast presented by the governor of louisiana and they talked about no sodas on EBT benefits...a lot more people die from the effects of pork cracklings and boudin than sodas i think...and making kids give up their phones seems like a mean thing to do and not really beneficial...one of the cowboys that ride the range in the national forest where they run cattle rode by me on his horse and he was totally engrossed as he rode along looking down at his phone...well i watched some good lectures recently...#350 of lex fridman "Origin of life, ancient DNA, Panspermia and aliens" by astrobiologist Betul Kacar (2:40) who was born in Istanbul, Turkey and came here to study when she was 20 years old and is educated in physics, geology, chemistry, and a few other disciplines...she does not suffer fools gladly!...there was one laugh out loud incident when Dr.Fridman responded to Dr, Kacars statement that "You are generating 20 amino acids a minute" by saying "Way slower than a computer"...to which she said "If you can show me a computer that does this...THEN WE ARE DONE HERE"...i decided i got more out of these lectures by watching them from start to finish in one setting...i also did some reading lately...in my short story collection i found a story by robert penn warren called "The patented gate and the mean hamburger"...it is very well written and sad...due to my compulsive behavior i used to wander around the countryside looking for thrift stores and i found one in a very small town near the Mississippi river between B.R, and N.O. i was climbing on a chair to get at all of the books stacked high on a shelf when i came across a book by r.p.warren which was signed by the author...good find...i eventually took it to the local book shop were the owner salivated profusely over the book and i traded him that book for a book on mammals...which i used a lot....anyhow it is a good story....but sad...one of the medical ladies recommended to me a series called "HOUSE" which i never heard of...it is about gregory house an obnoxious doctor...i found the first and fourth season in a local "estate sale" place...pretty good series...the episode entitled 'FIDELITY"...was sad as hell....i also picked up 4 seasons of Doc Martin who is another obnoxious doctor but set in cornwall england...well done...as for music i heard that a lot of drummers are getting fired but there are some good drummers getting started also...FranzRhythm Mom "Whats going on" has a young drummer girl who may go far and be a major contender by the time she is eight years old...
"the only thing that you can assume about a broken down old man is that he is a survivor..."james caan in "the way of the gun'
