We had moved to the Asheville NC area a little while back. About 4 months ago we moved from Swannanoa to West Asheville, from a place down low by a creek to a new place on top of a hill. Little did we know this would be a prudent move for more than one reason. September 26 2024 Hurricane Helene made its way through, after we already had a couple of days of rain. Many areas, including Swannanoa, were devastated. A former neighbor sent me some photos. Cars washed down the road we used to drive to get home every day. Most of the townhomes seem to have survived. But the surrounding area is forever changed.
AI Consumers
Now that we have AI generated content, all we need are AI consumers of that content, and SkyNet won’t need us at all.
Time to vote out the status quo
When will we regulate weapons in the US? No one needs more than a revolver, or a bolt or lever-action rifle. I’d gladly turn in my automatic pistol (a .22 by the way). There’s no need for weapons of war in a peaceful society. How many children need to die before we make some changes? I’ll not vote for anyone who doesn’t advocate gun control. Enough is enough.
modern work ethic
Millennials and Gen Z:
We want to be told what to do. Except when it’s something we don’t want to do.
10 Dead in Boulder
10 dead by a lone shooter with a rifle, in a grocery store. But we don’t need no stinking gun control. These occurrences are weekly. We’re numb to it. WTF?
Flag’s Up
We stopped displaying the flag 4 years ago. I had this new one, which had flown over the Capitol in the Reagan era (an estate sale find). It looks good there again.
This is not America
Unbelievable events I never thought I would see in America. There will be bloodshed. It’s all because of one man, a huckster, a moron, anyone who grew up on the East coast in the 70s and 80s knows him to be nothing more than a carnival barker, a boaster, a liar. How this was allowed to continue for 4 years is beyond me. We reap what we sow.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/this-is-not-america/697650603?i=697652071
We’re the climate change of countries
That is all
I Voted
One Star Review: 2020
2020, if I could give you zero stars, I would. Or like negative 5, because honestly, you have sucked out loud. Started out OK, we went out, we saw friends, winter started to wane towards spring. Then, you hit us with a plague. Now it’s scary to go to the grocery store, we never see anyone, and watch TV way too much. Our “leaders” have taken us down a hole hole so deep it may take decades to climb out. There may no longer be something called a “restaurant”, as many of them can’t weather through this.
I miss my friends. I miss my kids, and my grandkids. Thankfully, I can still work, as I did that from home anyway. But it’s stressful and I feel uncertain.
There have been shittier years, I’m sure, but this seems endless. So, all in all, you suck 2020.