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Attitude of Gratitude
June 11, 2018
11:54 pm
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I don't get deja vu very often these days. One brain cell gets twigged because you see or hear something that leads to another memory and the whole thing cascades. I think. Guess you could google it.

Fireflies are wonderful. You are very lucky, I haven't seen a firefly in a long time. We don't have them west of the Rockies.

June 12, 2018
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A couple times, and only couple times, I found myself in a déjà vu. Once I was in East Lansing, and the other time, I was somewhere in California. I caught myself, and, conversing in my brain with myself, said, paraphrasing, "OK. If you're so déjà vuey, tell me what's coming up next." I did, and found things as I described them.

I'm nothing like my ultra-high-genius sister who does things like predicting an earthquake, magnitude and epicenter; or putting a piece in a puzzle without looking because of dreams/premonitions/who-knows-what.

One time at college some of us were talking about déjà vus. The topic was, "Do you ever notice when you have a déjà vu nothing ever happens?" It's like we fall into this spiritual zone where everything melds and feels right, and then it passes.

June 14, 2018
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June 16, 2018
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I am grateful for The EVO! I woke up and found another tick crawling on my back. Then, I remembered I had felt something crawling in my head and was too tired to search it out, but also that The EVO! had been slapping my head with her paws a lot since I'd laid down. Since nothing was swirling around in my hair anymore, I assumed The EVO! had gotten it for me.

June 17, 2018
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My cat has a very dumb robin redbreast that has built a nest RIGHT in front of his favorite spot on the porch. He can look through the window at THEM, the bird can see HIM, and the bird is freaking out. Cat is excited. I had to bring him in.... found a dead baby crow in the yard today (I haven't been out there for a week, I wondered why the parent crows were so shook up about a week ago) and another baby bird pretty well eaten, just the head remained. Buried them. I feel bad about the crow, I wish I'd been here to pick it up, I raised one already.

Here some more things to be grateful for, I wasn't silly enough to build MY home in a dangerous place.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a21563520/kilauea-volcano-video/

June 19, 2018
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I'm fascinated by tectonics.

June 19, 2018
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Still trying to process what went down with income taxes today, I heard this nice on the radio:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt6lYiKcik8

Then, I remembered something.
Was it all what it seemed?
Was it true?
Was it real?
Or just a dream?

June 24, 2018
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yes... tectonics.... ever read Charles Hapgood? I found him a long long time ago... fascinating stuff. Then they did the movie 2012....

June 24, 2018
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I must have. I enjoyed history of science courses, but for the most part, I would have been reading for content, annoyed at pesky footnotes, especially since the format changed for each prof/editor. It's why I didn't major in philosophy. I enjoy philosophy, but I would have liked to do it as I fancy the Greeks having done - lounging around and trying to prove and disprove stuff, not building castles on clouds and memorizing who said what.

I was just thinking yesterday about geomorphology. It started with reading up on the rock slide. At a young age, I had concluded mountains in the deserts of the West had been formed by upthrust with debris ground thereby trickling down. It made perfect sense to me, but geologists appear to be of the opinion that the whole plane at the foot of the mountain slumps down, even though there is the perception that the plane is aligned with the general horizon. It made me start wondering how many top-down theories in the field also have a bottom-up explanation. Incidentally, I personally concluded the catastrophists and the gradualists were both right some of the time. When I left science to become a housekeeper, I think pole reversals were still being taught as mainstream science.

And, speaking of reading science books, every time I give my ultra-high-genius sister a book as a present, she'll let me know it's not up-to-date or flawed in this way or that. I'm such a peanut-brain. I look at all the normal people and launch into a tirade of "could nevers," even though I know I'm not supposed to say that; viz., I could never read as much as xxxx, I could never remember everything I read like xxxx, I could never know so much about so many things as xxxx, I could never sling partial diffy-q's like xxxx, I could never know as much about music as xxxx, I could never be well-adjusted like xxxx, ...................

June 25, 2018
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North America tectonics is pretty cool when you look and travel around. Yellowstone, which is a huge caldera hot spot, which if it erupts will alter life as we know it on the face of the earth.... is on the Continental Divide. That's where two large plates crashed together (fast? Or slow?) .... generally the deserts and central plains are thought to have been under water in different eras. When you drive across country like in Wyoming, you see ocean basins and islands... earth waves... quite fascinating. It all fits together somehow.

There seem to be a lot of hot spots under the western continental plate, like geysers in Napa valley. I live on top of the Cascadia subduction zone, so I try to keep up on things....

There is a geological formation called "The Grand Staircase" you might look up.. pretty fascinating.

The REALLY fun stuff is the ocean floors. It looks like North America slid doggon fast across the Pacific from the chain of volcanoes that terminates in Hawaii. Late at night, looking at ocean floors on Google maps will make you start believing conspiracy theories and wonder what geologists are deliberately keeping from us so we don't panic.

June 25, 2018
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A city councilor once told me there is not so much corruption as stupidity. Of course a lot of local government people are now under federal investigation, but in politics that could happen to somebody because they're good and not playing along.

I went to college with people who grew up to be scientists. I am often frustrated to spend all my time housekeeping and letting them make the theories. It is arrogant, but they partied and memorized stuff and read Cliff Notes - not all of them, though. When I was employed in research, I would often call the local universities for answers to physics questions, but it was a fool's errand. Everybody was too specialized. There was one physicist, Craig Bohren, up in Pennsylvania, who I thought really understood optics. There are a few others, I've met, some of whom are pushed to the margins. For the most part, people spoke by analogy and authority: Thus saith Einstein. Upper-level math teachers read the book and repeated louder if you asked for an explanation. After all these years, nobody has yet explained to me how that collection of Minkowski, Einstein, and Lorentz essays concluded in relativity theory.

I think I told you about the time there was a study group up in northern Virginia who met to discuss the paper I had written showing the Michelson-Morley experiment could be explained in terms of Newton's law of gravitation and Coulomb's Law. When I met with them in person, I found they had no clue what I had been trying to convey.

I recall being amazed during the space weather project. I was calling the best authorities on the subject around the world. They were all so personable and helpful. One, in Israel, shared data he hadn't even shared with his colleagues, and another invited me to do grad work at his school. I didn't go because it was the University of Washington and I didn't think I could survive the overcast. We could have conversations. One guy drew pictures for me. It was a highlight of that life chapter.

How many adults try to win arguments by pushing fallacies on each other? Then, there's caffeine. I don't think it is conducive to analysis, but I could be wrong.

June 25, 2018
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P.S. New Zealand is at the convergence of three plates, and if I could live there and still chase Justin across the countryside, I would.

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