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Toska2 wrote:

There is nothing to do but enjoy the moment. Its so out of your element that by the time you are aware of what you are doing, its over.

Wow. The Power of Now in a single sentence. Before you ask, I am not making fun of you. I'm impressed.

Ego wrote: It didn't occur to me that the overreaction itself might actually drive Covid to mutate into a deadlier form. I can understand how natural selection could lead to the success of mutations that allow it to infect new people more easily. In fact that would happen without any social distanci...

I had already decided what species of trees I wanted to plant in a clear cut I had done a few years ago. I had a bunch of scrubby Douglas firs taken out, as they were shading our yard. But the area below them had annoyed me for years, nothing but blackberry briars, since it had been cleared long bef...

That clip was beautiful. Thanks Tyler for sharing.

7WB5 wrote: One thing to bear in mind about possible mutations over the long term is that it is not a Lamarckian process. The virus isn’t consciously striving for a means by which to find its next human to infect. The reproductive rate of the virus is staggeringly fast and the copying mechanism is l...

Seven wrote: "IOW, men are quite visually hard-wired to both the sexual and emotional/romantic centers of their brain." Overly generalized. Yes I like to look at attractive people. But when I close my eyes I can't visualize them at all. If they hug me, I can remember their smell, the feel ...

7WB5 wrote: "This made me reflect on the fact that part of my problem has been that I tend to attract men who are so depressive/grouchy/misanthropic that even though I am their favorite person in the world, that's still not good enough because it just means that they REALLY can't stand everybod...

I see free mattresses by the sides of the road pretty often around here. Sometimes I really hate people.

I am retired. I wouldn't move away from my friends. Sadly I live about 1.5 hours from any of them, but in 3 different directions. So it's even. I wish they would move closer to me.

But a drug for which nobody knows the name.

Congratulations! When I was reading your first entry above I was thinking "I thought he was already retired!" So you did manage it a year younger than me. 56 is just my minimum retirement age so it's only early compared to most federal employees I know who spend too much money to do it.

"Paranoid," Black Sabbath.

I ride motorcycles. I don't care how safe cars are.

I wish you people would stop using the abbreviation ED for erectile disfunction.

Yours,
Ed

That last bit is reassuring.

Yay! It's good to hear from you, I was worried. I thought you were still down there east of Eugene where one of the big fires was. I'm doing adequately as usual. Sold some timber to pay for a new road to Weyerhauser property so I can have logs hauled out that way rather than over my driveway bridge....

"...so much wasted life."

You certainly have that right. Glad I'm done.

I'll try to keep that in mind.

I hope you get better and out of there soon.

Hunter S. Thompson, "Hells Angels" right? I have a 650 Bonneville the same year as his Lightening, I wish we could race.