Headache continues. Third day in a row. Pain pills ain't helping much. Dull ache, but not throbbing. I got the TV on hoping to catch a glimpse of that bomb hitting the Moon. I don't really understand what its all about, but my sense of what i've read is that they're simple blowing the dust and sediment out of an existing crater rather than to dig a new hole. This doesn't make sense to me. Why use a comparably small bomb to do something astroids have already done with lots more force?
My younger brother actually stopped by my house to tell me about a neighbor dying. This particular neighbor and I never felt emotionally met in our eye to eye encounters. The only time I saw him much was when he was outside his neatly kept, small trailer house either getting his mail or doing chores around his house. I was impressed he chose that trailer house because he and his sister own the land around an entire intersection of Interstate 40. My brother said the last few times he waved at him while passing his house the man ignored him. I understand why it came to this myself. The world ain't what we "think" it is, and we don't appear to take our abstract world with us when we die.
Obama won the Nobel Prize? I'm a big fan of his. I voted for him, but I don't know what he's done for peace? We're still actively fighting two wars and he's considering a troop buildup despite his campaign promises. All he's done that I can see is make speeches. I repeat myself, of course, but I think he's gonna become a dictator. When I first saw him strutting around during the election it reminded me of Mussolini. Both were born in Leo.
There seem to be a lotta people in the United States who want a dictator for a leader. Maybe it's the whole world who wants a dictator who will be their Father figure. They tried to make George W. one, but he couldn't hold up his end of the bargain. He was a cheerleader, not a player. We may have Cheney to thank for that. The neo-cons may have wanted a fascist leader, but even they couldn't handle the idea of Cheney ruling in his shadow behind the scenes. No blame.
The world may be trying to help the American Taliban by giving Obama a Nobel Prize. The rest of the world seems to want this more than they want a global, one-world government. Not me. I think we'd be better off with smaller governments. Maybe I stand for states-rights with lots of variety. Such that, if you don't like the way one state is run, as long as you're a U.S. citizen, then you can move to a state that does things closer to how you like it. I think state governments would start to be very cautious about what laws they passed because of who it might attract to their state. It might not work because nothing would ever get done out of fear of negative reciprocity.
I like my new coffee pot. I ought to. I paid enough for it. $50 to retrograde to a percolator. The glass container of my $20 French press coffee-maker broke while I was trying to wash it. That was the breaking point for my patience with glass coffee pots of any kind too. Glass replacement pots cost almost as much as the complete package.
One of the features I like about this new GE percolator is that the container for the grounds is machined in such a way that a fiber filter isn't necessary to keep the grounds out of the brewed coffee.
It's because the only thing I need to make coffee now is the pot, some water, and the coffee itself, I'm thinking about moving my coffee operation upstairs so I don't have to go up and down the stairs, but going up and down the stairs is part of my exercise regimen, so I probably won't do it.
I think about this incurable disease I have been diagnosed a lot. The prescription medicine I'm taking forces the issue. Granted, the pain I was experiencing is negated to a large degree, but I know from experience that if I stop taking the medicine then the pain will return. Nobody wants that.
The photo of the ornamental kale plant was taken on the upstairs deck just outside my computer desk. I bought it to replace the ornament cabbage I kept last winter. It's the best way I know to keep fresh vegetable on hand. I ate a leaf off it to see how it tastes. It tastes like kale, of course, just like if it was used in a salad. The medicine I'm taking forces me to eat only what I can keep down because of the nauseating side effects. Kale seems to stay down without a reaction. I figured it would. I've been eating cole slaw I buy at the grocery. I make sourdough bread/cole slaw sandwiches that are tasty.
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