Spiraldox #5150

Too soon you realize how long ago it was since you've been where it seems like you just were.  Then, suddenly it feels like ages have passed.  Before long, a paradox makes it much later.

Being around long enough might carry you back.  It won't be there, though.  It'll be elsewhere.

Conquer the Void

Yesterday morning, the crew of the latest SpaceX venture, Polaris Dawn, made the first spacewalk from a privately owned company in history.  As the Dragon spacecraft hurtled around the Earth, two people took turns venturing out into the vacuum of space.  With so much unnecessary negativity swirling in the culture of today, it's pretty awesome to see cool things like this still happening.

Government Fails #5150

The government is so inefficient, even its websites keep office hours...

Underswelling

Whispers of what was tickle imaginations unaware.  Grand designs ignorantly provide commentary on the most recent of past; the ancient and impenetrable remaining obscured to all but the most elucidated.  Rest assured that what now is will be irrelevant to the future.

5 Decades of Breathing

50?  Ain't no way...  It's true, though.

Half a century.  Seems like just a few years ago I was 25 buying my house.  25 years have passed since then.

It flew by.  It seems like just a few months ago I turned 40.  45 seems like yesterday.  

I guess I've been too busy trying to live to notice the years passing.  Time flies when you're having fun, and I've always been able to make the best of most situations...  Even the trying times.  

I've been blessed in that regard, as well.  Tough times have been few and far between.  Maybe times are what you make of them.

For example, my sisters gave me a birthday party, yesterday, at my parents' house.  While there, a large limb fell, damaging my vehicle, and knocking out the power to the house.  Instead of it being some negative event, we all came together, including my Dad's great neighbors, to get the debris cleared and the power back on in a few short hours.

No one was hurt.  My vehicle was drivable, and we all got some exercise...  And wound up sitting and talking afterwards for a while longer than we probably would have, otherwise.

That's how 50 years flies by.  Good family, friends, neighbors and making the best of what you get.  I really can't complain.

Apolitical Rant #5150

Most Americans want to live in peace, side-by-side with other peace-loving Americans of every race and creed.  Then, at election time, we rush out to vote for some of the most divisive, fear-mongering demagogues ever to make a speech.  Why?  

Trump sounds like he's cutting a bush-league pro wrestling promo every time he opens his mouth.  Harris delivers speeches like a slightly unhinged, rookie sports commentator.  Both of them support big-government overreach.  Feels like they want us to choose between the blue caps and brown shirts...  We have to choose THEIR side... OR ELSE!  

Neither of them care about working folks or the future of our grand experiment.  Individual freedom was born here and has continued to grow here, in spite of the best efforts of these leeches to rob every penny of the fruits of our labor.  With each step forward, though, they steal a step or two back.

If the American people want to have a future for themselves or their posterity, they MUST throw off the chains of political parties.  Parties do nothing but make you poor and keep you poor.  They'll give you just enough to keep you alive, and try to make you fight each other over crumbs to divert your attention away from what they're doing to you.

Want to move up?  Too bad.  Think you can get there with merit?  Too bad.  You have to bow down and kiss the ring of the politicians... Who have done nothing of merit.  All they've done is kiss the rings of power, themselves.

Dragonfly 4th of July

Happy Fourth! Have a look at this picture I took when I went out to grab something from my pump house, this morning, and found this giant dragonfly dessicating in a spider web: