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Reprogramming
Looks like tomorrow and Friday are the last big summer spikes for the year. So much the better. Ain’t nobody got time for that!
Back In The Chair
I honestly never expected to lay another line of code for the rest of my life. Apart from tweaking some techy stuff on my sites, I neither anticipated nor particularly desired the chance to do programming of any kind.
A friend of mine contacted me about an opportunity for which I am uniquely qualified. It took a bit of doing but it looks like we’re moving forward together.
I’m looking forward to helping them meet their goals and to serve their customers. Should be fun.
America First
America First
The RNC Convention is this week. After last week’s dystopian vision of the future from the DNC, it’s nice to see some optimism and some patriotism on display.
I believe that optimism is the best way forward for our country. There are a lot of backward thinkers making a lot of noise and causing a lot of trouble these days. I’d like to see them thwarted and sidelined.
Best Way
The best way out is always through. ~Robert Frost
I’m not making a lot of progress either substantially or conceptually.
Worry is a difficult hurdle to hop. It’s distracting.
I’m not usually one to succumb to worry, but I have a lot on my plate recently.
Dealing with change can be a serious distraction. Trying to incorporate change into a set pattern of behavior can be difficult.
Trying to predict and mitigate some of the problems that might arise from change takes focus away from creative endeavors and puts it on reactive concerns. Add to that the maddening bouts of chaos that are engulfing communities around the country.
If it can happen there, how much longer before it breaks out here?
Why isn’t something being done?
Why aren’t the governors calling out the National Guard to put this insurrection down?
Why are communities defunding their police instead of empowering them to put an end to the madness?
Why are people who don’t believe in our form of government serving in positions of authority in our government?
How did we let Fifth Columnists infiltrate our federal, state and local governments?
When will the idiocy abate?
These are all very good questions to which I do not have the answer, so I press on and hope for the best.
I think it’s disgraceful that the forces of chaos are permitted to run rampant when perfectly good avenues of redress are available.
It’s sickening to me that people feel they have the right to terrorize others because of their sense of outrage about things that aren’t actually happening to them. Tantrum activism has gone on rather long enough.
It’s time to find a new way forward because clutching at each others’ throats isn’t getting us anywhere but closer and closer to a Civil War.
Problem is, the rabble-rousers think they’ve got the upper hand. They think they can just go on bullying people who have nothing to do with their alleged grievances. They can spout on about racists (actually them) and nazis (essentially them) until they’ve gone too far.
If they want “right-wing death squads“, they’re going the right way to getting them.
The original AntiFA in Weimar Germany lost the existential argument to their principal adversaries, the actual Nazis. They were every bit as violent and moronic as their ideological great-grandchildren today but they weren’t as organized nor as ruthless as the NSDAP.
They could go toe-to-toe with the Brown Shirts in the streets, but the Nazis had more venom and fewer inhibitions. If they think they’re actually fighting that fight again, they’re quite likely to create the monster they claim they’re struggling against. If they push too hard, the natural reaction is going to be to push back so hard that they’ll wish they’d never come out of their mommies’ basements.
So, there’s yet another distraction for me.
Not only do I have to concern myself with the process of integrating paid work back into my daily to-do list, but I have to be concerned about whether these mental midgets are going to succeed in creating the reactionary right-wing monstrosity that they claim already exists.
It’s really hard to be creative when there’s a shitstorm going on.
I’ve got the ideas brewing in my subconscious but it’s more concerned with considering the potential harm being done by the Weapons of Mass Distraction. I’d love to be able to push it to one side and press boldly on, but I’m not succeeding at that.
That bothers me, too.
I know it’s all a ☭ Communist Plot To Piss Me Off ☭ , but it’s succeeding anyway.
Instead of minding my own business and getting on with my stories and my life, I’m getting sucked into the pointless drama.
Ultimately, it’s “not my circus, not my monkies” but to some extent it is. What goes on in Portland, Seattle, Chicago, NYC and now Kenosha doesn’t have much to do with me specifically, but how much longer before something sparks off in the Lehigh Valley at this point? How much longer before BLM “protestors” are blocking up traffic in Pottsville or Tamaqua?
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If you can’t eat your lunch in peace or drive into a gas station without it becoming a huge thing, how are we supposed to function as a society? It’s freaking disgraceful and it’s distracting as hell.
I’d love to put it out of mind and push forward blithely but this kind of chaos casts a shadow over even the most optimistic soul.
One way or another, it needs to end. The sooner the better.
Just a few more scorching days before we can finally put summer behind us this year. I hope you enjoy the rest of your week. I’ll try to make the best of mine…