Cooler today?\u00a0 Maybe, but I bet it’s just as humid.\u00a0 And two storms shaping up for later.\u00a0 Rain in the national forecast, but sure to be “locally heavy” here in Houston.<\/p>\n
Didn’t make much forward progress yesterday.\u00a0 My sciatica has responded well to stretching, and I’m feeling almost normal there, so of course I woke up with a serious crimp in my neck.\u00a0\u00a0 That kept me from going gangbusters all day.\u00a0 Kids watched movies.\u00a0 Wife cleaned house.\u00a0 I drained the pool cover, twice.\u00a0 Tried to cut the grass but the gas I put in the mower was about 1\/3 water, and then the rain came.\u00a0 High wind, heavy downpour, then it all just ended.\u00a0\u00a0 Drained the mower, refilled with clean gas (one storage can was contaminated and I didn’t notice) and started it right up, but by then it was too late to mow and the grass was too wet.<\/p>\n
I did fix a couple of toys.\u00a0 Super glue is my friend.\u00a0 I also did a tiny bit of clean up in the garage.\u00a0 Pulled some things out of the pile to address domestic bliss.\u00a0 Child two wanted a wallet for her cash money.\u00a0 Daddy do you have any spare wallets?\u00a0 Why yes child I do.\u00a0 (wife looking on in completely inscrutable fashion, is she pleased? Pissed? Astounded?\u00a0 No idea, but I solved child’s problem in minutes.) The other thing was some particular cables for whatever my wife is doing with the kids’ computers.<\/p>\n
I’ve been picking up leather objects when they are so cheap as to be free, so I’d have some leather for crafting and a couple of projects I want to try.\u00a0 I’ve got a nice bin full of different leather stuff, old purses, bags,\u00a0 wallets, portfolios, belts,\u00a0 etc. from the Goodwill or estates.\u00a0 The wallet was Coach, had a great patina, and cleaned up in a few minutes.\u00a0 Really it was too nice to cut up anyway.\u00a0 You can get a lot of leather from a coat, or a computer bag… and where else would you go to get some small pieces of leather?<\/p>\n
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It’ll be interesting to see if the insurgents took their socialist holiday off of rioting… but I bet not.\u00a0 I’ve only seen a couple of reports of violence over the weekend but most reporters probably took the long weekend off.<\/p>\n
I don’t think the genie will be going back into the bottle,\u00a0 there is too much fun in breaking stuff, and too few consequences.<\/p>\n
It’s a lot harder to build than break and once broken, there’s a lot of stuff that won’t ever be put back together.\u00a0 There’s a lot of stuff that is only still here because of inertia that can’t be put back.\u00a0 Social trust being one of those things.\u00a0\u00a0 BLM is doing a good job of ‘scaring the straights’.\u00a0 I don’t think they’re going to like it when fear turns to anger.\u00a0 And a whole bunch of otherwise good folks are going to be hurt when that happens, because it’s easy to see skin color.\u00a0 On the other hand, it’s a bit like muslim terrorists, if you don’t want to be tarred with the same brush, you better stand up and get loud.<\/p>\n
I don’t see much in the way of reconciliation until after the bloodbath.<\/p>\n
So keep stacking, and stay away from crowds.<\/p>\n
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Cooler today?\u00a0 Maybe, but I bet it’s just as humid.\u00a0 And two storms shaping up for later.\u00a0 Rain in the national forecast, but sure to be “locally heavy” here in Houston.<\/p>\n
Didn’t make much forward progress yesterday.\u00a0 My sciatica has responded well to stretching, and I’m feeling almost normal there, so of course I woke up with a serious crimp in my neck.\u00a0\u00a0 That kept me from going gangbusters all day.\u00a0 Kids watched movies.\u00a0<\/p>\n