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Afternoon folks!

This week we've got two Chicago blues albums from lesser known Chicago blues guys (that everybody should get to know) there's harmonica player Big Leon Brooks and guitar player and songwriter John Brim. Following that there's an album from blues singer Robert Ealey of Texas. Moving on to the diversity department, we've got a live kinda country rock album from Gram Parsons and the Flying Burrito Bros and then we have a kind of peculiar but enjoyable album from genre-defying musicians the Bad Livers.

Enjoy the tunes and have a great weekend!

Li Shangyin (c. 813–c. 858) Tang Dynasty

锦瑟无端五十弦，一弦一柱思华年。
庄生晓梦迷蝴蝶，望帝春心托杜鹃。
沧海月明珠有泪，蓝田日暖玉生烟。
此情可待成追忆，只是当时已惘然

The brocade zither has fifty strings, no less,
each string and pillar brings youth to mind.

Zhuangzi at dawn dreamt of wandering butterflies.
King Wang committed his passion to the crying cuckoo.

A bright moon shines over the vast sea, weeping pearls,
the sun warms Lantian's jade green haze.

Good morning, friends! I hope you are going to have a lovely day today. On that note, I wish to tell you about the rash of scams that have come to my attention of late.

Well, the first scam is a year old. I was helping a certified real estate appraiser with some property title issues. He wanted to look around my office which had been rebuilt from the floor up after a fire, and said it would bring $325,000 if I decided to sell it and retire. Out of curiosity, I had the top local realtor come and check it out, an she said she could put it up for sale at $95,000, but I would likely have to sell it for $80,000 tops. No, thanks, says I. I later discovered her scam. She gets a listing, fronts a "buyer", gets it sold for cheap, then puts it back up for sale at twice the price, pockets the profit, pays the front person some low fee.

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.

This month's camera club outing on Tuesday was to the Gaslamp Quarter and surrounding areas including the San Diego marina, convention center, and Petco Park where the San Diego Padres play their baseball games.

Gateway to the Gaslamp

Morning. I am back for a few weeks to to entertain you with my quirky view of the world. As I have been puttering around the farm thoughts of conspiracy theories dance through my head. When did this habit start? I have tracked down the source. It started mid seventies in the 8th grade...

The wingnut news and web platforms are all atwitter about the conservative pundit who got offed yesterday by rifle fire. I'd never heard of the dude and my philosophy is staunchly anti-murder.

Wildfire Smoke Particles Suck!

Honestly, until I wrote the date down for the title of this post, I didn't realize it was September 11th, Patriot Day, today. And that's how out of it I've been lately.

I got sick last week and wasn't able to get online and get anything done, or read or whatever. And so I wasn't even able to respond to the Thursday Open Thread. Bleh! I'm so sorry!

Therefore I also wasn't able to get something really good going for this week's post. So, I'm posting an interesting article from the BBC that was written a few years ago; it's about computer errors caused by cosmic rays and is called 'The Computer Errors from Outer Space'. I wonder how to keep computer code constantly under surveillance to check to see if a bit flips because of a cosmic ray? What if the surveillance code bit gets flipped? Interesting stuff!

Solar Flares, image from Nasa, via the BBC article linked above.