Today is Mom's birthday. She has declined to progress further in age, opting to remain at a nice even 21 because it suits her. I'm fine with whatever she wants to do in that regard because ... after all, it is HER birthday !

We went out on a little excursion. First thing we did was place a nice bouquet of flowers at the grave of her late husband and my stepfather, Johnny Pruett. It was quite a warm and humid day and we prepared the flowers on the tailgate and watered them with about a quart of cold water to which a flower preservative from the store had been added.
 

Then we went to Fatz Cafe and had some ribs. Mom had the barbeque and I had the dry rub. From the amount left over I'm fairly certain that nobody left the table hungry ... I know I didn't for sure.
 

When we returned we attempted our first serious try at doing selfies with her iPhone. I must say that the steadiness of my hand resulted in many blurry takes so we ended up taking a bunch in rapid succession to get a few which were "keepers".

Nonetheless it was pretty fun and we had been meaning to try and take a few pictures since she got the thing. We now feel that investment in a 'selfie stick' would be prudent at this juncture ... seeing as to how difficult a time I had with steadiness in the process of taking them turned out to be.

All in all it was an enjoyable time. When we returned we had a look at the yard. We decided that the generic herbicides we used on the weeds were not as good as the roundup product from a standpoint of effectiveness. I will be experimenting on a more concentrated solution next time to see if that improves things.
 

The United States of America has not been a constitutional Republic since the Eisenhour Administration. You can say I'm crazy. You can say you don't believe it. However, if you read the real histories available in the threads of documetation available — instead of the revisionist mess taught by the public educational system you too will understand that all is not as it might seem ...

We have murderers shooting at politicians engaged in ball practice near the capital. We have rampant murders of police officers in the line of duty. We have Mexican gangs taking over Compton and Watts in California and a local government helpless to do anything about it.

We have ex-presidents pardoning traitors. We have a military industrial complex and financial sector cabal which operate above the law and impose hazards on the taxpayers to rid the world of the baby boomers whom they feel are in numbers too great for their liking. What's worse, they utilize taxpayer funds which aren't even accounted for in any budget to harm those who pay them.

We have suppression of new technologies to maintain the status quo of petroleum based economy to keep those few in power because historically the government has been too weak to take charge as they should have with the Truman administration. Since that time groups assigned to oversee emerging technical aspects of the administration took it over and assumed control moving the role of President far down the chain of command from the top spot it SHOULD occupy.

As the results of this oligarchy who have assumed control, we have chemtrails, fake UFO incidents, maglev trains which travel at stupendous speeds underground and beyond the view — let alone USE by citizens. We have subterfuge and collusion by those who have assumed control against us. The development of energy sources which cannot be depleted and that do not compromise the biosphere ... yet we still must burn fossil fuels to enrich the military industrial complex and their partners in crime.

We have a number of small groups meeting in efforts to assume and maintain control of the entire world. The Bilderberg Group which holds an annual private highly secured conferencve of some hundred and a half so-called "North American and European political elitists" claiming expertise in the media, finance, industry, and academics.

Then there is The Committee of 300 aka known as "the Olympians" who consist of another bunch of elitists claiming to be an internantional council that organizes politics, the military media, finance, and commerce for centralized global control.
 

It is likely that in the rapidly approaching apocolypse the role of antichrist will be played by our own MJ12 or one of these small groups out to benefit the few at the expense of the many. These would be rulers of the world who have appointed themselves in charge of globalization and world control need to be stopped.

We need to take hold of our country and assume control once again. We haven't been in control since the Isenhower administration and it's past time to rout the scoundrels out of the picture and let the foreigners know where to get off as well. Now the military industrial complex operates as the strong arm of this oligarchy out to enslave everyone else or kill us if it suits them.

And we in our little lambish ignorance proceed blindly to slaughter. Too few understand the need to make their voices heard. Those we elect are quite happy to assume their place in the trickle down looting of the economy. That world of elected representatives, lobbyists, and special interests which are taking those spoils which are our futures.

We need to wake up. It's far past the time for action.
 

Lots of cell phone and apple stuff in the tech news.

I hunger for more operating systems, networking, and security in the base feeds from mainstream providers. I have been forced to dig up my own interests anymore because they are no longer mainstream in the tech industry.

Having a penchant for keystrokes becomes a moot point when everyone wants to use a smartphone.

Much of the mainstream tech stuff is not really nuts and bolts so much as droll musings on what your gaming system or phablet can do for you, various mac maneuvers, and oh yes ...

let us not forget the ubiquitious object oriented drag and drop IDEs where "anyone" is a programmer.

Like Sinistar, I hunger.





 

A while back I started maintaining an "Idiot List". It's a written list of items I frequently walk out the door and forget while departing for work.

Often times, I will remember one of these forgotten things as I'm crossing the bridge into the city. With a 4 mile commute one way I typically attempt not to return to the house to ammend the situation. However, I have likewise been known to depart for a quick run home to take care of business and return to work posthaste depending on the criticality of the need.

More often than not, I end up skipping vitamins taking pills much later in the day. I have learned by trial and error to omit the blood pressure pills if I'm very late as they can make for a very uncomfortable evening of running off to the "room".

My sister came by for a visit and thought the entire notion of a posted "Idiot List" was a riot. She laughed at it all and I'm fine with that. I sometimes need to review essentials prior to departing for my day.

Even with the list I have been known to walk off and forget something. Like today I had departed and left the air conditioning turned off. When I arrived home the temperature was rather high but not enough to incur "thermal runaway" of the circuits in all the equipment I maintain in an operational state:

Switches
Routers
Server Cluster
Cameras
... and the lovely Himalayan Salt Lamp my Mama just gave me.

Though I don't really feel this is the prodrome of Alzheimer's or anything — I still want (and need) an edge on the activities of daily living.