I was Thinking, or Not

I wonder what you are at, asking me if I'm thin.  Man you listen to this girl, and she has flowers to sell, keep them memories from regressing.  I can't hear your blues, your horns are mellow, and my eyes are green.  So I'm just a jack of no trades pushing my dreams into the wild blue, you can't find me no more.  So I get stuck, can't feel you no more, though you are right beside me. What happened to Peter, Paul and Mary, someone might ask some day, but for now they are just a joke told by conservatives in dark rooms listening secretly to Bob Dylan.  Arlo where did you go, we miss your insight, but that was oh so long ago, I don't remember any of those songs. Hey man, are you sure you want to keep at this, I just can't think, my head hurts and I have nothing to soothe these stones in my passway. Peace JD

Unfortunately I think we are back sliding politically.  As a society I think we are not unifying our world, but headed more towards a world of states.  There may be only one universal, the network, and that may be beyond our comprehension before to long.

So radio is dead.  Bad enough what video did to music, but the internet has completely killed radio.  I mean sure it is still out there, programmed stations running the same crap so advertisers can attempt to influence the captive audience.  Don't get me wrong, even the internet has advertisers, but for the most part they are easier to tune out, most of the time. What I want is real radio on the web.  I want a computer DJ who plays a huge verity of music all day everyday, someone like Lazo.  I do not want it to sound like a computer, but I don't want a human DJ either. Computer vocalization is pretty horrible.  It is not too bad for things like mapping software, or search, but otherwise it pretty much sucks.  Computers do not get inflection apparently.  Hell I know a lot of people that do not grasp that concept, so not surprising when computers get it wrong.  They are after all our creations. Perhaps Alexa or Google Now will evilly get it....

I think the social networks are severely overrated.  They are not social at all.  I used to be all about first adoption, had to know what was on the horizon.  Now I just don't care, I'm so beyond all that.  Facebook, I don't know why I even still have an account there.  Of what use is all the static that flows from the stream of unconsciousness that is Twitter.  It is so much noise.  I just don't care enough about people or things anymore.  Even this blog has become narcissistic, perhaps it always was.  Personally I would not know, being wrapped up so much in my own self worth.

Sometimes even the best intentions of bleeding hearts, and the worst intentions of zealous conservative fanatics can have equal and and opposite reactions.  If computer programming ever taught me anything, it is there is no such thing as random generation, at some point a pattern always emerges.  The anomalies are the norm, and even if you test, there is something that you didn't see the first hundred times. Humans are fraught with intention.  They can not help themselves.  They are not only filled with the thought of intention, but they feel compelled to express that intention, even if they are incapable of completing it.  Those that do find invariably that all too often the side effect of their well planned intentions go sideways when they least expect it.  They do not always realize that their intentions might not be in their best interest.  Or in the best interest of some others.  If there were some force that could balance that nature of hum...

Most people drink almond milk for one of two reasons.  One being that it is healthier than cows milk, or the second because they are lactose intolerant.  Both of these reasons are as mythical as unicorns.  There is another reason, but this one is so irrational I won't even give it a mention.  Peta is full of well intended idiots. Lactose intolerance is a medical myth, even the medical professionals know this, though they would not admit it, as the money they earn from pharmaceutical companies would be vastly diminished if they actually practiced good doctoring rather than modern medicine.  Still many people believe this and so therefore many people are lactose intolerant.  Given half a chance and more people would be intolerant of real food and only able to eat synthetic food, and maybe we are going that way. Funny that such issues came about after they already had alternatives for them.  Like diseases they concoct after they have developed the treat...

Being a rather well informed bs artist myself, I think I know a bit about it.  Though to be truthful the politicians have it over me in tonnage.  It ain't just US politics either, the whole global Gambit is wriethe​ with political bullshit. As if religion were not enough bs, the dumb bastards had to concoct yet another layer of bs, and they call it government.  Just another way for elitist bastards to weild their supposed right to rule over the deserving peasantry. In some ways they have the right, because in general the peasants are just that, bumbling idiots willing to follow whatever authority seems to hold their limited interest.  Perhaps that is why they developed so many layers.  As they say you can't fool all of the people all of the time.  That it's unless you create so much distraction that they have no time to focus on one thing or the other.  Give the people their blood and circuses and they will remain mostly docile to your rule....

Right now I would take either of the two, either warm or dry, though both would be better. I've been sitting back, looking at things from my distance, not really saying much.  I will generally still take that approach, but a couple of things really bother me. Where the hell did DJ go to school?  I've heard children who have better command of the English language.  His tweets are atrocious.  If English is not his first language, what is, really.  I am curious, because back in the late eighties when I was briefly introduced to DJ by a friend of mine in NY, I thought he seemed a fairly articulate, if arrogant person. Still, piss poor ability to speak or write is not exactly a symptom for inability to lead.  I could name many leaders that had less education, and far less command of the English language.  What truly bothers me is his lack of ability has seem to come about as a result of his recent television career.  Not one of illustrious standing,...

I am starting a new blog, based on my newest piece of work.  I am working on a book, not just any book, but one designed to help people with life issues. The title of the book, and thereto the name of the blog is how to ruin your life.  It is something like a self help book, though I truly hope no one actually uses the advice given.  I already have the title to the follow up book, how to really ruin your life, and so on and so forth through various other similar themes. Of course I will be put posting to the social web, not that it will matter, they are all dead to me now. Peace JD

How can I commit all these things to memory?  With memory failing so fast, along with the bloom of youth now long past it's parlor.  Yet there are moments when vitality still run feverish within, barely contained, often expressed in a negative manner.  It is a simple thing really, just as it once was a matter of repetitive study, so it is still true. If there was anything that my poor education taught me, it was that if you repeat it often enough, even a lie will be perceived as truth.  Through practice and repetition, most things can be committed to memory, at least long enough so that with application it can be made part of the permanent memory. Study, application, study again, using as many your faculties as you can, and in no time you can fill your mind with massive quantities of useful, and as often useless information. The lesson for today is that of all the things they taught me in school, the method to commit data to memory, and then recall it, at least in...

Just don't want to go out today, I think I want to stay in.  It's not raining, there's no real reason to not go out.  I just can't find a good enough reason to go out.

I have reached chapter 7 of "The Flame and the Arrow: Dark Fantasy Paranormal Romance (The Annika Brisby Series Book 1)" by Emigh Cannaday, Fiona Jayde, and it only seems to get better, though not so much that I can't put it down yet.  I have been reading another book, and that one is taking my interest at the moment, but that only proves this one doesn't have the power to draw me off the other one.  Still a good read, worthy of the effort so far.  You can start reading it for free: http://amzn.to/2b1GFfC, if you would like to follow along. Peace JD

As things settle out I realise that I need a staff.  The very least is a driver and shotgun, a ma'am for the house, and two private staffers, to work effectively.  I also need a nice young family operate the farm, they should have at least the idea of four or five children, but we can supplant that with woofers for the time being. Besides an agent, which will probably be a junior lawyer, I will need a lawyer and an accountant, which are services for hire for some, but will have to be retained for me. All I want to think about is reading and writing, be damned about the rest, that is what the staff is for.  This should have been started several years ago, but my grandchildren will thank me, I can hope. Peace JD

I'm expressing myself in the sincere form, without perjury I hope.  It is this true nature of mine, that initially conjures all manner of fantasy as to the intention of my prime directive.  To that I say, let them that hath wit follow, wit not be left behind. Peace JD

Well not really alone, actually I still have friends and lovers, but northing from the industry.  I never did like the industry anyways. So yup, will be publishing and posting here and everywhere once the book hits the presses on Amazon.  Thank you to all the people who have assisted me along the way, and thank you to anyone who still is with me, for now the journey really begins. Peace JD

As a very impatient type, I guess I will wait one more week to hear from the agent and if I get no response I will crank up the word processor again and reformat the novel for Kindle. It has been a long trip waiting on agents, and while I appreciate the work they have to do, I am inclined to believe that after a month if they haven't got back to me, the conclusion is going to be less than positive. I am inclined to think that if it is a piece they absolutely have to have they respond fairly quickly.  Consequently if it is one they want personally write the rejection letter for, they will be quite a while, otherwise they probably send out a standard form rejection to most of the stuff that crosses their desk. Can't say I blame them, with hundreds maybe even thousands of submissions a week, if the piece doesn't grab them right away, but it isn't so bad they can't get past the first twelve mistakes, well I guess that is why it takes them a couple of weeks to respond...

It is that time of year again, when baseball is all but done, and there is nothing left to talk about but politics. So let me start right out with, I don't give a shit, though I often find the passions of others entertaining.  I am pretty sure the establishment is well aware of that fact. Let's start out by saying that politics is a game of money.  At some point you have to admit that fact.  So let's say you put your money on your horse.  You take your 20 dollars, or hundred, I don't care, we are going to say you spend 20 of your hard earned income on your political beliefs. For the sake of argument you support the conservative party.  I don't care really, it could be the libertarian, it even liberal left, I don't care, please try to follow along here.  This is not an attack on anyone or even our political system, just observations of disinterested party.  Mind you I am not apathetic, just deeply cynical. So you bet on your horse, the conservative p...

Here's the link, it will only be active for 24 hours, so check it out if you want.  I haven't added the ending yet, and this is the draft so it is not complete yet.  You can post comments below. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zqTM6jVBQcOF-KQrC6FIv4WIiIxlWClneZ2FJnAB21M/edit?usp=drive_web Next week it goes to the agency to be shopped for publication, so this is the only chance to read it before it goes offline. Peace JD

Chickens, Dogs, been that kind of day.  Stupid hen, keeps taking her chicks down to the road.  I just get them up by the barn again and the dogs have to go out.  I chase the dogs around the yard and out of the road, and get them back in the house, and the hen decides to venture back to the road with her chicks. It is no wonder I get nothing done. If I were to put up a fence, that would keep them in for the most part, but it would take more money than I can afford at the moment, and more work than I seem to have time for.  of course it would save time, and it would be safer for the animals, but there still is the issue of the money.  A rough estimate of 100 foot of fencing is about $380.00 per 100 foot.  We would need at least 300 feet of fencing to close in the front of the property.  We would need another 600 feet of fencing to complete the perimeter.  That is a lot of fencing and a lot of cost. So much, that, the money might be better spent inv...

Basically what I want to build is a truck from bicycle parts.  If I weld two frames together so they form a trike, and make an axel for the rear, add a hitch put a bench seat on a frame, and extend the rear so it has cargo space, I have a bike truck. Now all I have to do is figure out how to make it go.  I would like to make the pedals work, especially the gearing, as that would give me a lot of gear ratio for hauling loads.  There is also the idea of an electric motor, maybe in conjunction with some of the gearing.  I am not certain what will work, but I am dam sure it will. Anyone got some old bikes and a spare welder I can use? Peace, JD