The Longest Night

Each trip around the sun seems to speed faster and faster. We better treasure our time friends! I think, we in the west, are indeed in our longest night as our power continues to wane and the BRICS+ model rises. This is a time of great flux. The US, EU, and Israel are doing great harm to their international relationships with illegal wars, economic sanctions, and aggressive attitude. This is the nature of empires. These cycles have occurred over and over through human civilization.

Afternoon folks!

There's some awesome blues music here this week. Starting off is Big Mama Thornton with the Muddy Waters Blues Band in 1966, a really great album, followed by Junior Wells a few years later accompanied by Buddy Guy, Otis Spann and a bunch of other Chicago blues luminaries. After that is an EP that I picked up years ago from a cutout bin of some of Jimmy McCracklin's early hits on Chess records. Following that is James Harman, a fine harmonica player and we finish up with some bluegrass with Peter Rowan - great stuff!

Enjoy the tunes and have a great weekend!

Good morning, good people! I hope you are all enjoying your weekend and reading The Epstein Files!

I have promised a lawyer from Bryan-College Station that I would let him know if his 78 yr old cancer stricken, bad knees, bad bladder, almost deaf, lawyer Dad was making an ass of himself and maybe setting himself up for a malpractice suit. So, after 10 minutes of watching the man conducting a direct examination of an expert witness, I felt good about him. Later that ay, I asked the attending court clerk how it went, and she said my old, esteemed friend twisted a knife in the back of his young opposing counsel. (Court-speak for getting a win so decisive that appeals would be a waste of time and money.)

Morning. Cooking is one of the methods I use to experience different cultures when there is not the time or budget for a personal visit. Last week ...

Weather Comes, Weather Goes - Hopefully
It's been kinda insane where I live, recently. The Wind! The Rain! The Floods! We lost access to the internet a few times, and lost power as well. Monday afternoon/night, after we lost power, our weather station (which has battery backup and can store data without mains power for about 24 hours or more) recorded wind gusts of 42 mph. And that is basically a record at the farm. Even the neighbor's cows don't make wind gusts that strong!

So, I'm posting this quickly, because the forecasters say we are going to get another round of wind and rain tonight. It's not supposed to be 'as bad', so there's that, but we are hunkering down expecting to have no power or internet regardless.

The Essex and the Whale, as drawn by Thomas Nickerson, one of the surviving sailors - Public Domain, Link