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Happy Friday everyone. I hope everybody is doing well. Post any photos, memes, or music you like.

I didn't get out with the camera this week. These photos are from a visit to the Bernardo Winery eight years ago.

Bernardo winery, located in the Rancho Bernardo community of San Diego, has been in continuous operation since it was founded in 1889. Since it made sacramental wine for the Catholic church it has the distinction of being one of the few producers of alcohol that was allowed to continue production during prohibition. Along with the wine tasting room, the winery also has an Italian restaurant, gift shops and antiques up the wazoo.

I started high school in 1968, a tumultuous year of change, both for the country and myself. For the first time I was exposed to long hair freaky people, mostly from the upper grades. I was also exposed to different alternative political viewpoints and alternative life styles than those from grade school and junior high. It didn't take long, by my sophomore year I had tuned in and turned on.

I can freely admit that my friends and I experimented with drugs, mostly pot and LSD (acid). Acid was hit or miss where I lived, you never really knew what you were getting until you tried it. We very rarely got the good stuff like owsley, what we got was usually in pill form which meant it was cut with substances like speed. That made the trip very unpredictable. It could be very enjoyable or a really bad trip with everything in between. I never had a bad trip but I witnessed them. I saw friends have breaks with reality and one that never came back. I did, though, have a couple of trips where all I could do was sit in a chair and hold onto the arms as firm as I could until I came down. It was that intense.

I see the current political situation much like that. Hold on tight.

I have avoided watching cable news since I quit politics after the Sanders 2016 campaign fizzled out. But the events of the last week and a half have provided the best comedy entertainment I have experienced since the death of Richard Pryor. I now keep the remote in my hand, switching every few minutes or so between Fox, CNN and MSNBC.

...innovating where no man has gone before. Will China's latest innovations trigger a new level of trade wars and toilet-tariffs from their geopolitical rivals in the West?

Smart Toilets: the final frontier, helping all humankind to live long and prosper.

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Well, we are catching a flight to Las Vegas this morning. Off to make a deposit there.
Supposed to be 113° there today, so will probably be indoors most of the time.