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My contribution to the world this afternoon was is quite fragrant. 

Senior citizen claim- I cooked some yummy pigs feet and put the slow cooker bowl out of the way to cool.  I enjoyed a couple of the tasty piggy things and settled down to watch YouTube videos. 

Today I was curious as to why I had left the slow cooker bowl out.  Oops. I slow cooked the piggy feet a month ago.  Let us not try to imagine the look. 

So I took the bowl, it has been covered since I made the dish, outside to the front bushes. I brought garbage bags; gloved up; paper towels for just in case.  I put the first bag over the bowl and turned it. 

The bowl overwhelmed the bag and everything fell on the ground.  At least it soaked it up. There were piggy foot bones and all the attachments. A good quart of cooking liquid, fats, and the stuff that grew on top when it spent weeks having fun.  I scooped up and picked up and grabbed what I could. 

Right now I expect a gaze of raccoons to put up traffic signs and a parking lot. The foxes are going to dig up a new garden for me.   The air is still and I can still smell how good a meal I made.  I need a shower, maybe two.

I would like to take another view of the human silicon life. I tend to think that somewhere after 2010, maybe close to 2018 the shift to a computer human world occurred. Computers became dominant during the 2020 shutdown. The world functioned, sort of, with many of the humans isolated at home and on the computer.
The servers did not crash, in fact it was found that there was plenty of reserve in the servers. Servers are the basics of how the world interacts on the intertubes. Addressing and data is on servers. The speed never faltered. Zoom and Teams and other live audio/visual events took place with few minor issues, wear all you clothes when doing an online meeting.

There are no more “yellow pages” of the size and magnitude of when telephones were on copper wires. Now if you want to find a local plumber you need to know how to talk to a database. Example: Maryland Olney plumber sink. Basically it is finding the local yellow page book, turn to plumber pages and look up who does what specialty.

We have several ways of communicating, and tremendously faster, than fifty years ago. Back then the telegram had mostly closed so there was telephone and letter to the postal system. Now we have those two and electronic, email, voice message, text message, and a few more. We can show our lives, either publicly or privately, on social media, to our family and friends or the entire world.

Almost every part of our life now has a computer involved, or has an electronic device with something in it to provide information to a computer. Your phone charger cable, or other cables or charge devices let your phone know what they are and if they are compatible. It is difficult to escape from this, not impossible, just difficult.

The AI stuff is just more of the same, but now easier to encounter. We, software and hardware, have been building to this for generations. Now, it is possible to handle the huge amounts of data, super fast and super cheap. Chat has been this for years, it is just now that the hardware and software can do it fairly well (except when it goes off track and becomes something nasty.

I am constantly trying to reduce my computer contact, but it does not happen. I now have a “smart” thermostat to control the new HVAC (furnace). Set to my room temperature of 74F it might hit it on the way to 77F or 66F. I cannot get it to run around 74F. In the old days you would physically set the on off points on the furnace, the thermostat set at 74F. Smart lets you do that, but it does its own stupid thing. I am thinking of finding an old one from Ebay to put on there and live happily.

separated from law and justice he is the worst.  Aristotle

Although I have been absent here, I have been busy elsewhere.  Life is good, and after reviewing everything FB has to share on me i am good to use it to communicate with those who use it to communicate to the world.

Some days are better than most.  Some days are what I do best, American Red Cross Disaster Services Disability Integration Regional Program Lead is my new world.  Being disabled (although I usually forget I am) allows me to understand what to do.  This position in the ARC is very important.

When a disaster strikes, and we know one will hit somewhere anytime all the time, we are there. We can have flood areas in Maryland and a forest fire in Colorado which brings the ARC to action.  Providing food and water to first responders; Providing cleanup kits and bleach to those working to make their homes safe again, we do what we can do where we can go.  And, there are the house or apartment fires we go to.  Life can be busy.

Whatever the disaster, ARC is there and I go to ensure those who need something are taken care of.

The time has come to say goodbye to an online standard, Facebook.  Considering how little I use it, primarily to see what a handful of people are up to, it is no longer part of my online world.  I hope the few people who communicated with me on it have my email address if they want to contact me. I deactivated my account March 19, 2018.

In Denver it is the pollution cloud. For all of us it is the massive and total B.S. spewed out by the illegal president. Much of it is just deflection, tossing everything out that might get a rise out of any cohort, but primarily women, people of any color, Dems, progressives and the media.

The stuff is just to get the fog thick and heavy so we do not see or even think about the massive destruction of America that is occurring. And, we do not realize what a criminal we have as the Russian agent in the WH.

A current example, as of this hour, is “arm the teachers”. What a load of B.S. It will never happen, for many reasons, but it will not happen. That aside many hours are being spent on the analysis of the issue and not much at all about what last weeks Mueller actions mean for SFB. Many interviews of former Marines who are now teaching and why they do not want to see teachers carrying weapons.

There is so much stuff thrown up to the wind every minute that we fail to grasp the significance of the crimes. The vote loser in the WH may not understand what his handlers are doing, but he does go with it because it fits his style, bluster and lie to get the deal.

But, almost nothing will be done. This sh*t storm is not for policy. It is to cover up the crimes happening in the WH and administration. Try to remember what the brown cloud was on December 31, 2017. Or even February 13,2018.