August 8, 2021

Yesteryear
One year ago today: August 8, 2020, the Lightner.
Five years ago today: August 8, 2016, West Palm Beach.
Nine years ago today: August 8, 2012, black water.
Random years ago today: August 8, 2014, it is broken.
           That’s the Reb holding a toy sailboat at the marina this morning. In the cool before noon we went through most of the penninsula where Sparkie was so often. The place is criss-crosssed with hundreds of trails so no way to tell if we’ve been right here before. Taking a break from everything, we were out there for hours. Then decided the best thing we could accomplish this afternoon is go to a movie. Stay tuned for all that.

           I’ve never seen Rio Lobo all the way through, it is now a free movie on-line, so that makes two I intend to watch today. It’s really been a long haul to get to the point that is possible. It is pretty leisurely this trip but I already miss my workshed. The best blog reports lately have been travel tales, so will I have anything for you this week? Dunno, I’m open to suggestion.

           Why watch any news? Too many people say they don’t watch any news nowadays, but I feethat is also wrong During times o strife, you should always pay close attention to what the enemy is doing. And sociall, these are times just short of disaster. The radical left wrongly sniffs they’ve got the upper hand and are desperately trying to clamp down a lid on any dissention until they can forver consolidate their grip. Trump just won’t go away and they are now having to resort to force. That will get them nowhere.
           Wearing a mask only tells people who the idiots are. Americans know who the sheep, the stupid, and the weaklings are—and they are a minority. The biggest lie is that the unmasked people are still a threat. The fact is, any virus spread is not the least contained and is already over by now. It is no longer abouts masks and vaccines.

           The news outlets are casting about for distractions. The only issues right how are the border crisis, the lockdown protests, and the forced takeover of an election the Democrats know they can no longer fake. Yet the airwave continue to blast out stories plainly aimed at shifting thoughts away from the communists. There is a list of the top stories in the news that the average American does not give a hoot about.

                      • Wildfires in Greece. They still got anything left to burn over there?
                      • New York Politicians. They are all ugly corrupt goofs, so enough already
                      • The Taliban takeover. Pull out, clear out, and stay out.
                      • Abortion. This is not an issue this election, so fuck right off with that.
                      • Bible-thumping. Go take your preaching elsewhere.

Picture of the day.
Dutch identical twins.
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           We took in a Disney production, “Jungle Cruise”. Sure enough, all the clichés including the trees that come alive. At two hours, it doesn’t really happen for the first 30 minutes. That is a repeat of “In Search of the Castaways”. Same old stuffy English scenario where people have the wherewithal to drop everything and take expeditions through the tropics. The plot is familiar and the presentation even more so, but it carries you along. There is an implied spark between the Skipper and the lady though the acting is sub-par and Emily Blunt is kind of on her way down the Katherine Hepburne path. Did you know the average over-30 actress bunch in the US spend $150,000 per year on cosmetic surgery?

           Scene after scene and the sound track are lifted out of “Pirates of the Caribbean”, yet I’d still say go see it as it is the same Disney mold that thrilled audiences for decades and it remains better than most of the goof stuff out of Hollywood these days. The script is pushing the faggy issue a bit at a couple of points, which old Walt would never have okayed.

           Here’s another view of the woods by the lake. Most of the summer bugs in America are gone. When I was a kid, they were a constant. Today we were not bothered once in hours of wooded passages and shade. Weird.

ADDENDUM
           Good evening. This is a test to see how compatible Win 7 is to XP, in a sense. This is the "new" computer from Greenbrier, chosen mainly because some the processes required by our new business software won't run on anything earlier. By the way, that is a practice I feel should be outlawed--when it comes to file compatibility. I've known since day one the only difference between most files of a category are tiny, so give me a paragraph to describe what I mean.
           Say, for instance, MicroSoft markets a word processor with the name "Word". While they would be free to create new and different word processors, I would compel them to always make a word processor that could utilize the files saved and that each new version of this software could, without additional steps or effort, work with all existing files. In my day, this was called backward compatibility.
           I continue to watch the violent downfall of the Biden regime. Violent, because they cause death. This ends the test.

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