Happy Friday everyone. Welcome to Friday Night Photos your once a week escape from the day to day insanity of the world we live in. Post any photos, memes, music or whatever else you find of interest that helps tune out the madness.

We had a mild Santa Ana the last three days. Temps were in the high 80s to low 90s with humidity in the teens. Things are back to normal today, 70° and 51% humidity. Slight chance of rain in the forecast for the middle of next week.

I haven't posted any flowers since last July and with much of the country dealing with the cold and snow I thought some flowers were in order to help brighten things up.

Morning.

This week followed one of my study themes - by understanding the patterns in history and foreign affairs - reflections on local matters become more comprehensive.

Please feel free to bring up any subject.

Things are Getting So Weird

Maybe this is 'just' me getting old, but it seems to me that things are changing and getting weirder every day. Even simple things, like avoiding online/email/internet scams. I was around, and using computers, big huge mainframe computers, when the internet started to develop from Darpanet. I was the first student in my graduate department to use a computer, I was one of the first to have a desktop computer (it was like, 1981, I think. Dad got it for me for fun). I was one of the first to use Linux, in fact I started with something like Redhat 1.0 and Gnome 0.3. Point is I've got a pretty good background in computers, internet, detecting phishing, scams, and all kinds of other things. I've never been scammed, and because I've used Linux for so long, I'm not really aware of all the scams happening.

The Basics, I think we all know them. (From rmonnetworks.com)

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