I don't have a lot in store regarding Columbus Day. It has always been there in my life and it's primarily a day for sales in retail outlets in my orientation.

However, the history behind the day has never been lost on me and I have been a fan of the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria since I was a sprout.

Today is another Columbus Day.

Columbus Day is a national holiday in many countries of the Americas and elsewhere, and a federal holiday in the United States, which officially celebrates the anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas on October 12, 1492.

The indigenous people, libtards, and Marxists such as BLM who would like change our existing history (as if that were possible) removing historical statues and replacing them with statues of drug abusing criminals such as George Floyd seek to have it among other history and historical figures changed to reflect their perverted notions of the nation but we simply won't have it.

Happy Columbus Day and BLM and other Marxist monetizing libtard idiots go to Hell.

F☠ck Indigenous People's Day.
 

I was once interested in nanotechnology but decided early on that I had neither the time nor the equipment to pursue my interests in the field.

The whole time I was considering the possibilities they grew farther and farther from my grasp because the education, equipment, and other resources were simply not there nor would they ever be. Simply pie in the sky for me personally.

It's sad to note those fleeting thoughts of pursuing a level of technology which was primarily an advanced laboratory concept in the absence of any semblance of practical applicability from a standpoint of personal existence — but there it was in my face up close and peronal.

A nanometer being a minute one billionth of a meter nanotechnology indicates technological aspects conducted at "nanoscale", which is about 1 to 100 nanometers ...

Dimensions and tolerances of less than 100 nanometers are simply not a practical environment for what was increasingly just a casual interest such as that which was mine.

These technological aspects, machines and such involve manipulation of individual atoms and molecules in practical application and I simply see the acquisition of equipment working in those tolerances beyond my practical scope indeed.

The thrust of nanotechnology is improvement and revolutionizing industrial and technological such as information technology, homeland security, medicine, transportation, energy, food safety, and environmental science, among many others.

The subspecialty called nanorobotics applies technology of creating machines or robots at or close to the scale of a nanometer with nanorobots, aka nanobots aka nanoids typically ranging in size from 0.1-10 micrometers and constructed of nanoscale or molecular components.

October 9 brings us National Nanotechnology Day.

National Nanotechnology Day is an annual celebration featuring events and activities on or around October 9 to raise awareness of nanotechnology and it's application, opportunities, and challenges.

While technology has always been my thing, like Clint Eastwood said in 1973 as Harry Calahan in Magnum Force:
 

A man's GOT to know his limitations.

I'm all too aware of my limitations when it comes to effective pursuit of nanotechnology in practical applications. It was totally impractical from both capital equipment and training perspectives.

It's primarily a realm reserved for corporations and institutions with access to donors promoting high finance, capital equipment, and well equipped laboratories.
 

Went out to lunch with my girl yesterday. These moments grow far and few between for me. We went over to Longhorn's on Gervais and had the usual servings of beef steak and laughed and carried on.

It was a good time even though I jabbed my finger with the very sharp steak knife provided in the place setting. Oh well ... it seems I don't know much about machinery.

I was a bit late patching things up but now the injury is doing much better.

Anyway, during lunch we spoke of many topics regarding recent work developments and social events and it all has made me feel that leaving my job was the best move I could have made given the circumstances with the incompetent leadership and an utter lack of suitable direction ...

Not to mention the libtard nazi democrat party stances on vaccines and what have you. Well beyond the scope of employment. These people are out of their stupid overbearing libtard minds.

So this has left my girl wanting to look for other avenues. I'm satisfied with the change I made. Now if we could send all the democrats packing the world would definitely be improved.
 

I remember vaguely Chairman Mao Zedong and his cult of personality in China. I recall my disdain for Communism in general and I felt that as chairman of the Chinese Communist Party he was an evil entity on the face of the earth and shed no tears over his death on September 9, 1976.

However, my young rural orientation was likely a factor in my attitudes and as such my evolution as a more internationally oriented character after the Navy has softened my attitudes toward political affiliations in general as long as you're in your own element and don't drag your stupid "take from the worker and give to the shirker" socialist agenda into the United States.

I didn't comprehend much of the 'space race' back when I was a youngster. In grade school I saw pictures of the Soviet Sputnik satellites and vaguely recall the understanding of them in orbit but I wasn't really much into the Gemini stuff either.

The allure for me didn't come til much later because my early life was predominated by monster movies, Astroboy, superheros, cartoon characters, The Three Stooges, and other such aspects of a lingering childhood fantasy life. The kid stuff controlled my existence for a very long time.

Add to this the abandonment by the executive branch of allies who formerly trusted us entirely and I will be surprised if any jurisdiction will dare engage the United States in any joint venture in the future. Stupid untrustworthy lying ass Joe Biden.