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Just something that crossed my mind...what if the internet itself is like a form of AI and it is...well, I won't say controlling us, but maybe has some control over us.

Think about how much it influences us in our lives.
If you think about it, it is sort of bringing us into an alternative reality.
Perhaps even controlled by some sort of artificial intelligence....if you consider how many bots they claim are on Twitter.
Gradually, we are being taken away from the scent of a flower, a view of a river flowing....to listen to podcasts, check our social media accounts....addicted to our phones.

We are becoming immersed. We own nothing...and are happy.

Driving doesn’t come naturally to me: 4.5 months of no-driving made me insecure and cautious, even only at the start. But as soon as my hands felt the paddle, I didn’t have to control my movements. They happened automatically. As if they were waiting all this time just for this moment: to get the grip and start paddling. It felt like liberation. Like the piece, previously missing in my life, at last fell on its place.

Saw a heron. Saw 2 female eiders with 5 or 6 tiny eiderlings and a couple of gees with their newly hatched goslings: so small, it’s difficult to count at the distance and against the sun. Saw a pair of swains mating: there will be small singlets in a couple of weeks.

Paddled and drifted with the elements and then paddled again. Saw no seal.

Overbrimmed with happiness and already longing for the next time

The CS blog community has a (relatively) recent arrival who writes some nice blogs and doesn't appear to have any personality quirks that are often found with members of online communities.
That said, I'm guilty of only reading her blogs and not being a contributor with comments.
My thoughts are many of you... like me, are holding back to contributing to her blogs.
Is it the material not relevant to me... maybe yes and maybe no.
Or is it 'blog apathy' from the group to someone they know little about?
That's what blogs are about... letting people know about you and the things you are interested in.
She did a marathon sweep of her blog comments last night and I'm curious to start reading her material with more interest.

After many years of studying, then working, then studying, then working, then studying & working at the same time, followed by a lack of work but more studying, then some more working, more studying & working, and then more working…:D, I decided to retire from it all.

I ‘adopted’ a puppy, and had plans of lazing around the house, and doing whatever I felt like doing/not doing, such as tutoring students privately, teaching English online, visiting people and places at home and travelling to countries that I’ve always wanted to see.

I didn’t plan on having all that being ‘interrupted’ by COVID, but that is indeed what happened. Its initial devastation had put such a ‘cloud of depression’ over everything that I’d experienced of, and expected from life, that I thought my retirement plans would never be realized.

But, thanks to God, the ‘cloud’ is lifting, and hopefully my retirement plans may still be realized. Wouldn’t it be a shame, that after spending so much of my earlier life on the ‘hamster wheel’ chasing after personal “achievements”, I spend even less time enjoying the fruits of my efforts?

I think that if even I laze a lot, and get some travelling done (maybe next year), I’d be enjoying some of what a “retirement” ought to be…:)

Are blogs the easiest way to tell who is real? What they really think? Their attitudes and what they really say about what they want in life?

When I worked at a grocery store as a cashier about 29-30 years ago, I remember an older nice gentleman who I would see from time to time in the store waiting to be checked out. He was a regular customer, and I remember hearing that him and his wife would sit out in their car outside in the store parking lot almost every day and "people watch". I thought this was strange, but I thought maybe it was a rumor. Well, when I would come to work in the late afternoon hours, their they would sat, in their car watching people. I chalked it up to them just being very lonely, and enjoyed the "people watching".

Have any stories of anyone you know of strange behaviors?

Do you have any strange quirks?

You are shipwrecked and manage to survive on a small dinghy somewhere in the Pacific, and encounter an unknown island which appears to be well covered with palm trees and other vegetation. You have one case with you. What would you hope was in it? No communication device allowed.
You arrive at the islands sandy beach and in the distance you see another small boat with a single person on it. Who would you hope that person was? It can't be anyone you have previously encountered.
The island is uninhabited and your time there is unknown.
What action would you take?


Avoid this blog if you have no imagination.

I have a few of them, but it seems like as I get older, the list grows a bit.

Here are some of mine...

1. People that don't use turn signals when you're behind them

2. Slow a** drivers (this includes people inside places like Walmart that hog the aisle with their shopping carts while on their cell phones, and who are not very attentive of anyone around them, care) lollygagging. I like to get in and out when I go into a store.

3. Stereo systems in cars (kicker systems) that people (mostly young guys) that turn the bass and tremble up high vibrating windows and other things.

4. Rude and inconsiderate people

5. crappy neighbors

6. noise pollution

7. Cigarette smoke and cigarette butts people throw anywhere.

8. Spam/scam phone calls of any kind.

I'm sure you all have yours out there. Feel free to share them...

Recently, I had a couple of friends telling me about this fungus that grows primarily on birch trees. I was told that it prevents cancer and it also helps with the symptoms of cancer....among many other things once I looked into it online.

One of my friend's father decided to use this instead of other medications for his cancer...and he lived 2 years while doing so. Again, I am not doctor...and this is just what I heard...and by no means am I making any claims here.

However, I am curious. Is this stuff really as good as it is claimed to be? I am lucky, I live in a part of the world where it grows naturally around here. So, currently I am on the look out for some and I am really interested in trying it out for myself. Again, there are many other qualities it has...not just for cancer...so it has been said.

It has been known about for hundreds of years. I wonder, has anyone here ever heard about this fungus? Has anyone here ever drank chaga tea and if so, what was your impression of it?

I just heard about this on Wednesday and I have not found any yet. However, I do intend on finding some and trying it. I will update this blog with my experience with it as soon as I find it.

Happy Saturday all.

Seafood and steak in some places are now double. Some vegetables are coming in around 40% higher. We all see it and we all feel it. The dollar store items are now $1.25 but the only thing I've found that hasn't gone up in price are the mini-pies at Walmart.
Fifty cents for as long as I remember...