Some random thoughts.
1.) Have you ever said a word so many times in a row that it no longer seems to be a real word and you start to think it is just something you made up? Try it. Take “gesticulate,” say it thirty times real fast, and after a while, it no longer seems to be a word. I had an experience like that this afternoon. I was sitting on the porch, and it was a beautiful cool day, and I looked up, and the clouds seemed to be moving in a southwestern fashion. Now, I’ve always been under the impression that clouds move west to east, so it confused me. I remember the big takeaway I had when I was doing military training in Devil’s Lake, ND, was that the clouds moved so much quicker and seemed so much lower to the ground.
But then, today, the more I thought about it, the more I began to doubt that clouds moved west to east- “Do they move west to east? The sun rises in the east, I know that, but am I just misremembering? Is this a special weather event? Do they normally go west to east but wind patterns can sometimes change it? What about the rotation of the planet- does that have anything to do with it?,” until I was to the point that I honestly could not remember, and like when you repeat a word so many times it no longer makes sense, I had no baseline for sanity. At that very point, I began to wonder if I was having a stroke or had very early onset Alzheimer’s. I’d always heard that if you were having a stroke, one side effect that people experience is the smell of burning hair. I sniffed, and smelled no burning hair, and just settled on the fact that I might possibly be insane.
For those of you reading this thinking “Oh, dear God,” I just want you to know that I deal with this kind of runaway thought processes all day every day. You wonder how I hurt myself mopping? THIS IS HOW.
2.) Please do not install ad block. Ads are the way we fund this site. I know there was a problem with sitemeter, but it was not specific to this website, and I think it has been fixed.
3.) I am not a big fan of fetish fetishist Bob McDonnell in Va, but I do have to say I am a fan of the “This shit has gone on too long, fix this clusterfuck by 3pm or you are all fired” approach to management. I think it is an underutilized approach.
4.) I have degenerate beans that will not follow the poles and string I have put up, and it is really pissing me off. They are probably, at this point, in the equivalent of their teen years as far as beans go, so maybe next week they will follow my guidance and use the strings to grow in the proper direction.
5.) Damages Season 4 showed up on my doorstep today. I had forgotten I had even pre-ordered it. I’m not usually one for scrawny women, but Rose Byrne makes me sweat.
That is all.