“Left onto the high-speed, contact ground point-niner.”
That isn’t a bad way to mentally frame Life right now. We are “becoming more grounded” and “flying through summer” is in smoking (or muddy) ruins.
Yet, the persistent illusion of a life/self divide persists. So we mine the “face of Reality” every day looking for The Gem. Good luck with that.
Numerical Representations
Numbers are a subset of human “Metrology” – the art of inner self attempting to measure to relive meaning. A few marriages into life, we are all getting the idea of how that works. But let’s not get bitter. Besides, the Import/Export prices – just out – are (nominally) “real.”
U.S. import prices decreased 0.4 percent in July, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today, following a 0.3-percent decline in June. Lower prices for fuel imports more than offset higher prices for nonfuel imports in July. Prices for U.S. exports decreased 1.3 percent in July after falling 0.7 percent the previous month.
In a few minutes, the Fed will release its own slice of numeracy (the ability to understand, interpret, and work confidently with numbers) on Industrial Production.
Lighting Up Construction?
We’ve been keeping track of something (back-of-the-envelope) for the year: homes lost to wildfires.
- Spokane-area fires (Washington, early August): 700–900+ structures destroyed (multiple reports of 700+ homes, later official tallies around 774–812 structures total across the complex).
- Aspen Acres Fire (Colorado, late June–July): ~319 homes destroyed (revised from earlier ~337); total structures ~780–850.
- Smaller events (Nevada Bug Fire, Georgia, Texas, etc.): dozens more.
I know. “Why?”
The answer is because it’s down in the background of the federal housing numbers (also just out) this morning:
Privately-owned housing starts in July were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,239,000. This is 12.4 percent (±9.5 percent) below the revised June estimate of 1,415,000 and is 13.5 percent (±11.0 percent) below the July 2025 rate of 1,432,000. Single-family housing starts in July were at a rate of 808,000; this is 9.9 percent (±10.4 percent)* below the revised June figure of 897,000. The July rate for units in buildings with five units or more was 421,000.
The price and volume for Housing will come in a week with the Case-Shiller housing dope. This is a “shelter-in-place” number.
For now, how much is drying up of immigrant demand and how much is bleed-off of labor into server farm builds?
News Compressor: ON
1. Hormuz has moved back toward outright military escalation after the diplomatic window essentially expired. Iran says it is shifting to a “fully offensive” posture, Washington has ruled out extending the interim ceasefire, and a vessel transiting outbound Tuesday was struck by an unknown projectile, damaging its engine room and causing a crew casualty. Brent climbed above $91, near a three-week high, as the oil market increasingly prices a prolonged rather than temporary disruption.
This is beginning to line up with our “data bulge” around August 31 +/- a day or two. Also, keep in mind that Iran still has “effective drone control” over the Houthis who operate over a number of chokepoints.
Bet you didn’t know department: There’s an unclassified briefing graphic floating around on military networks that pops up from time to time especially in INDOPACOM briefings, named “Let’s Get This Strait”. It’s a labeled outline map of all the seacoast in the INDOPACOM region, with the names of all the various straits clearly spelled out. Useful because there are so many out in those waters! And the spellings are inconsistent which just adds to the amusement with this for home gamers: For example Bab el Mandeb is also spelled Bab al-Mandab. So, here’s a quick decoder ring for you:
- Strait of Malacca — Malacca / Melaka Strait
- Singapore Strait — Eastern end of Malacca
- Sunda Strait — Sumatra–Java
- Lombok Strait — Deep-water alternative
- Makassar Strait — Borneo–Sulawesi
- Ombai-Wetar Strait — Deep submarine route
- Balabac Strait — Palawan–Borneo
- Mindoro Strait — Western Philippines
- Taiwan Strait — Formosa Strait
- Luzon Strait — Taiwan–Luzon
- Korea Strait — Tsushima Strait
- Tsugaru Strait — Honshu–Hokkaido
- La Pérouse Strait — Soya Strait
- Strait of Tartary — Tatar Strait
- Torres Strait — Australia–PNG
- Bass Strait — Australia–Tasmania
- Cook Strait — NZ North–South
- Palk Strait — India–Sri Lanka
- Ten Degree Channel — Andaman–Nicobar
- Eight Degree Channel — Minicoy–Maldives
- Bab el-Mandeb — Bab al-Mandab
- Strait of Hormuz — Ormuz / Hormuz Strait
- Bering Strait — Russia–Alaska
We pause to ponder Hoyle and wonder which will be a Strait flush…or flash.
(Wait! Did the News Compressor just kick off? Hit reset for me…)
2. Ukraine launched what Moscow describes as a 620-drone attack against the Moscow region, marking another major expansion of deep-strike warfare. Russian authorities said 180 drones were intercepted over the Moscow region, while Crimea also reported heavy attacks and power outages; separately, Russia warned Britain of “consequences” over British-supplied drones used by Ukraine.
The Russia-Ukraine system is becoming less geographically bounded, not more.
What we are looking for is a kind of “gentleman’s agreement” not to stop food out of Ukraine or Russia. We’ll get back to you if any “gentlemen” are found.
3. Congo’s Ebola has reached six provinces and Sunday’s government tally stood at 4,945 confirmed cases and 2,325 deaths, making it the deadliest Ebola outbreak in Congo’s history.
4. Colombia’s earthquake has become a number: Preliminary losses at 30 trillion pesos, about $9.58 billion, including major building and infrastructure damage, with around 280 deaths, more than 4,000 injuries and 143 people still reported missing.
Inside Pages
1. Lake Powell has fallen to a record-low 3,519.91 feet, only about 30 feet above minimum hydropower generation elevation, while Lake Mead is also at historic lows. Western water-system stress worsening. Update gambling plans early.
2. National wildfire activity continues smoking along with 80 uncontained large fires and 28,710 personnel assigned. Rain dances welcome, though not in Indiana…
3. 7.2 million U.S. acres have burned in 2026, 169% of the 10-year average acreage, with the Northwest still the most active region. In the me-me EU, a 7,500 acre fire was a “stop-the-presses” headline. News topology is irregular at best.
4. Two hundred Army soldiers from the 17th Field Artillery Brigade are being trained and assigned to Washington wildfires for 30 days beginning August 18.
5. Central Indiana’s week-long flood event delivered more than a foot of rain in some areas and pushed portions of the White River to levels not seen since 1913.
6. The northern and central Plains can expect damaging winds, large hail and localized flash flooding today and tomorrow.
7. U.S. and Canadian negotiators are trying to reduce current Canadian auto tariffs from 25% toward 15% while racing a Wednesday deadline for additional 50% U.S. tariffs on $20 billion of Canadian goods. When the AI bubble blows, who will have money to buy anything, we wonder?
8. Baidu missed quarterly revenue expectations as weakness in traditional advertising offset stronger AI-cloud growth. Peoplenomics readers will remember our expose a while back on how “machine-reading” screws up web metrics. This is possibly “the smoke” with a whole tech fire to come when agencies figure they’ve been buying views to machines…
9. Nvidia is now reported to be prepared to guarantee up to $105 billion for OpenAI’s Ohio data-center project. (Which pencils at How Many $20/month users?)
PPT Deck Contagion among the MBA crowd: Anthropic’s revenue run rate has reportedly climbed above $65 billion, while its prospective IPO valuation is being tied to extremely aggressive 2028 revenue assumptions. Whee!
10. China’s Unitree unveiled a high-speed humanoid robot called “Superman” just ahead of becoming the first general-purpose robotics company to list on mainland China’s stock market. No word on tall building clearance performance.
11. Trump’s approval rating fell to 33%, the lowest of his presidency in Reuters/Ipsos polling, with 80% of respondents concerned the Iran war will be prolonged. So 80% can’t be bull-shitted forever?
12–96 Hour News Outlook
1. Another military incident in or immediately around Hormuz is likely before the weekend. Odds: 84%. (We wanted to start with a lay-up.)
2. Brent will remain around or above the upper-$80s barring a concrete diplomatic breakthrough. (OK, a second lay-up.)
3. U.S.-Canada trade negotiations will produce either a last-minute compromise or a definable market top. (Lay-ups galore today, huh?)
4. Additional Ukraine-Russia long-range drone attacks will occu… (This is getting silly…)
5. Fed minutes Wednesday will become the next U.S. market-rate hinge. (And..Swoosh! A sweep!)
Personally Actionable
Anyone dependent on Colorado River water, hydropower or Southwest agricultural supply should promote Lake Powell/Mead from background climate story to operating-risk watch. Powell is now about 30 vertical feet above minimum power generation, while long-term allocation negotiations remain unresolved. Slowly bankroll water and a small swamp cooler backup but remember they take water, too.
Odd but Real
At a Beijing AI-themed bar, customers can buy DeepSeek-branded tokens with their drinks. The owner says AI and alcohol share three characteristics: hallucinations, bubbles and distillation. Reuters actually found someone who turned the AI boom into bar décor.
The good news for the crypto crowd: This is an easy path (nothing behind it) to use Compute as a vale if you’re paying attention…
Around the Ranch: Dreaming On…
Reader Mike popped in with a very good Comment overnight:
“I read your descriptions of colorful detailed dreams with some awe and perhaps envy. I can track my sleep and know I have REM, but I cannot remember a thing most of the time. If I ever do, it’s a scrap with no detail at all, like remembering that I saw some screens with writing on them, but nothing memorable at all. I’ve tried remembering dreams and writing them down, but there was nothing to write down, and no detail, not color, characters, or anything else. Then again, I cannot picture anything in my mind when awake either.”
All great points – so let me take this on in an organized way.
1. Foundation: Dream Recall Comes First
You cannot work with what you do not remember. The single strongest predictor of lucid dreaming success is good dream recall. Being able to “bring things across” from the Dream Realms (and the other way when you go to sleep) is like a muscle. In the sense that the more you use it, the more it will work for you.
Everything in humans is done “in balance” with the Ontology. Therefore, if you want something “out” of a dream, you may wish to bring something “in” to leave on “that side.” It can be anything such as a good thought, a mental picture of something of value, an image of a tool. When you are going to sleep, mentally look for a place to leave (or gift it).
The idea is you are bringing something IN to Dream Realms, so it is OK to bring something back.
Second point: Most people wake up too fast. Especially with alarms: If you hear an alarm – and you roll out like a firefighter at 2 AM when the bell hits – you will have crap recall. When you first wake up, pause while you still have vision both ways (into waking, into dreams) and hold – to let a “gift or learning” come with you.
When you get started on these two concepts, then:
- Keep a dream journal by the bed. Write immediately upon waking, even if only fragments.
- Stay still another few minutes after waking (and first journaling) to scan for images/feelings (even impressions) before moving into the waking day.
- Set a simple intention every night: “I will remember my dreams.” Most people find it easier if you bring a gift to maintain balance or exchange.
Consistent journaling usually produces noticeably more vivid and detailed dreams within 1–3 weeks.
2. Core Techniques for Vivid & Lucid Dreams
The best-supported methods are behavioral:
- MILD (Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreams): As you fall asleep, repeat a clear phrase such as “Next time I’m dreaming, I will realize I’m dreaming,” while visualizing becoming lucid in a recent dream.
- “This is a gift for whoever needs it” as you leave your “gift” and hang around it as you drift over. As you do this, you can ask for a dream objective. “If this is a good gift, show me…[whatever].
- Or if not weklcined “If you need something else, catch me going back to the waking side and I will bring it tomorrow night…”
- WBTB (Wake Back to Bed): Sleep 4.5–6 hours, wake for 20–45 minutes (read about lucid dreaming or review your journal), then return to sleep with the MILD intention. This targets the later, REM-rich part of the night.
Technically this is called “biphasic sleep.” More on this in a moment. - Reality checks: Several times a day, ask “Am I dreaming?” and test reality (look at text twice, push a finger through your palm, etc.). These habits transfer into dreams.
- SSILD (Senses Initiated Lucid Dream): After a WBTB wake-up, cycle attention through visual, auditory, and bodily sensations for several rounds before returning to sleep.
Most people who practice consistently see improved vividness in 2–3 weeks and their first lucid dreams within 2–8 weeks. Combining MILD + WBTB has the strongest research support.
3. Biphasic (Segmented) Sleep
Historically, many people slept in two blocks: a “first sleep,” a period of quiet wakefulness around midnight, then a “second sleep.”
Modern lucid dreamers deliberately recreate a mild version of this with WBTB. The second sleep period is richer in REM, so dreams tend to be longer, more vivid, and more accessible to lucidity. Full biphasic schedules can work for some people but reduce total sleep for others; the controlled WBTB interruption is usually more practical and effective for dream work.
When I have real future work to do, I get up, have a breakfast, and then go back to bed while it’s still dark. The “second sleep”. Dig more in Biphasic sleep and human health: A theoretical paradigm for personalized sleep – PubMed.
4. Carbohydrate Timing (“Carbs Up / Carbs Down”)
Carbohydrate intake affects sleep architecture:
- Higher carbs in the evening (especially 1–4 hours before bed) tend to increase REM sleep duration and proportion ? more dream time and often more vivid dreams.
- Lower carbs in the evening tend to increase deep (N3) slow-wave sleep ? more physical restoration, less REM.
Practical approach many dreamers use:
- Most nights: moderate complex carbs earlier in the evening for balance.
- Lucid-dream target nights: slightly higher carbs in the evening meal or a light carb snack 1–3 hours before bed to favor REM.
Very high sugar or heavy late meals can fragment sleep and produce more bizarre or emotional dreams, so quality and timing matter more than extreme restriction or loading.
5. Defining Your “Dream Channel” (Intention & Dream Incubation)
This is the practice of deliberately steering dream content.
How to do it:
- Write a clear, specific intention or question before bed (one sentence works best).
- Visualize the desired scene or outcome for a few minutes as you fall asleep.
- Place the written intention where you can see it.
- Upon waking, record whatever came and look for connections to the intention.
Research (including work by Deirdre Barrett) shows that focused pre-sleep intention significantly raises the chance of dreaming about the chosen topic. Over time this trains what many call the “dream channel” — the reliability with which your dreaming mind responds to conscious requests.
6. Supplements That Actually Show Evidence
No supplement replaces technique practice. The ones with the best data:
| Supplement | Typical Use | Main Effect | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Galantamine | 4–8 mg during WBTB | Strongest evidence for lucidity | 27–42% success rates when combined with MILD + WBTB. Use 1–3 nights/week max. Can cause nausea. |
| Vitamin B6 | 100–250 mg before bed | Increases dream vividness & recall | Solid supporting study. Start lower. |
| Alpha-GPC / Choline | 300–600 mg (often with galantamine) | Supports acetylcholine (REM chemistry) | Helps many people with intensity. |
| Huperzine-A | Low dose | Similar mechanism to galantamine | Less studied for lucid dreaming. |
Mugwort and a few other herbs are popular anecdotally for vividness but lack strong controlled evidence. Always check with a doctor before using any of these, especially if you take medications or have health conditions. Galantamine in particular is not for nightly use.
Practical Starting Protocol
- Journal every morning.
- Do reality checks during the day.
- 2–3 nights per week: WBTB + MILD.
- On those nights, consider a modest evening carb increase and (if desired and cleared by a doctor) B6 or a low-dose galantamine stack during the wake period.
- Set a clear intention or incubation question every night.
Most people notice better recall and vividness first. Lucidity usually follows with consistent practice rather than from any single night’s effort.
The Full Spectrum Human
Now we get off into the weeds for a moment to put a “big frame” over all this.
In my odd view of Reality, we are “spirit essences” who are attracted to, and inhabit animal bodies on a strange planet. There are many ways to “look out on this place” from your spirit-centered Self.
- Unitary (All part of a mono Deity)
- Duality (Heaven/Hell, God/Devil)
- Trinity (outworld, inner world, spirit in between)
- More (pantheism) or a variant of the MWI (yes, of physics) that I won’t even attempt to explain here.
The simplest for me is a trinity orientation (inner and outer with Self mediation) but slowly moving toward an unlimited MWI versioning because the physical differences of various worlds become more rational as a physics problem, even if horrifically complex and a sea of “persistence vectorology…”
Dreams are adjacent to the “other worlds/MWI” branching. It’s like going to a ballpark to watch Reality spawn overnight. Some nights you have your own unprocessed stuff to work-over (day residue) and other times it’s like going to an iMAX of the mind. Still others fall into “You can ‘t handle the Truth!” bucket and are consumed/distracted by demons/jinn/archons and so forth.
I won’t share all my mapping work, but you get the idea.
The main thing from this morning? Dream and Waking crossover is a skill. Shamanic at one level, prophetic on another. And me? I just go to the iMAX between the ears.
Last night’s iMAX Movie
I found myself in the perimeter of the White House. I was watching as aides were telling president Trump how he was a genius and doing real 4D work on steering America’s future.
But, the reality was the aides had their own thing going and they were working a pure 2D agenda in a 3D world.
What happened next was interesting. It turned out that (in this dream) Trump has an almost “hunger” to perform on stage and be the center of attention. So, as the dream progressed, this “attention appetite disorder” demanded an audience. This led to an unexpected schedule change so he could make an Appearance (*to feed the appetite).
What followed was a decision to make a “popover” to “the Hill” where all the cameras would be on him.
As the WH press lined up for buses to travel “with the president” the WH had a briefer (you have to have been around them – usually a half dozen, or so, will be with the press corps and be the “narrative explainers.” Like “What wthe president was really saying George, was…[fill it in…]
Oh, and one of the briefers was pissed at “AFP” for some reason (or for a question being too-pointed) and it was a minor “spectacle in passing…”
Which is why I don’t write as much publicly about what goes on in dream-space. But when I say entertaining and iMAX-like, whoa-baby – it’s the real McGoslin.
Write when you wake up.
George@Ure.net
I bought a magnesium powder a couple weeks ago at Sams and my sleep has been much deeper and dreams more lucid. I love the stuff.
I would truly enjoy experiencing dreams like yours. Unfortunately most of mine, when I remember any, are best kept locked away.
Stay safe. 73
Jim. Each morning when you wake up and open your eyes (or even before you open them if possible), try and transfer as much of the dream as you can to the active mind. Stay with it as long as you can.
Think of it like an unprocessed photo file back in the day before digital. It was there on film and processed in a dark room to take it to print. Open the film to even a little light (or noise in the dream state) and the info is gone.
Work at it. This has worked for me. Good luck.
Thanks Sir. But as I said most dreams I have and recall are best kept locked away along with the noises, smells, faces, places,. All of it. It took a long time and a lot of help to deal with what occasionally gets through. In the end I just have to let them go without hesitation.
I do have pleasant dreams that usually are about Diana, and I, or the kids or grandkids, building things or exploring places. Things like that.
George is an extremely interesting mind that everyone who has the opportunity to share his thoughts must consider themselves more than fortunate.
Stay safe Friend.
“Rain dances welcome, though not in Indiana…”
“Rain dance very much like war dance, only drier.”
F Troop – How to do a War Dance
Corporal Agarn demonstrates the proper technique.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RwYxNhyIzMU&pp=ygUYRiB0cm9vcCBhZ2FybiByYWluIGRhbmNl
re: “The VIPs”, 1963
feat: something’s askew
The “BBC” made note of an ‘isolated incident’ this morning offering limited details about a tragic event at 8:19 am bst near Shepherd’s Bush in W12, west London. Police closed off access to Askew Road north of Goldhawk Road. Askew Road is named after a 18th century landowning family which supplied London with fresh produce according to the Askew Road-W12 website.
As it became urbanized, an associate of Charles Dickens and Royal Navy officer, Captain Frederick Marryat, took up residence. The Captain published a popular childrens book “The Children of the New Forest” in 1847. Orphaned children in the era of King Charles II use their wits to survive the Civil War in New Forest of southern England. William the Conquerer founded that Royal Forest which currently covers 150 square miles from Portsmouth towards Stonehenge and back to Christchurch. Apparently at one time it supplied timber to the Royal Navy.
Captain Marryat was born (on the now-built-over George Street?) near the Tower of London to an English-Huegenot shipping merchant. As chance would have it, his mother was born in colonial Boston to Friedrich (von) Geyer who descended from Huegenot immigrants. Queen Victoria’s father, a son of King George III, attended the wedding of one of Captain Marryat’s maternal aunts in Boston in 1794. Australians are likely readily aware that the Adelaide suburb of Marryatville is named after Lady Augusta Young née Marryat, a niece of the Captain.
Captain Marryat’s American Uncle Nathaniel Tucker became a direct ancestor of a Lt. Col. Nathaniel A. Tucker honoured in 1866 by President Andrew Johnson for his service as a Union Army Paymaster during the American Civil War. The Captain’s younger brother married into the Bonde family of Swedish nobility who trace their roots to 1365. Today the Bonde family allegedly controls one of Sweden’s larger productive landholding enterprises known as Bordsjö (se: “Table”).
Where was I? Oh, yes, Goldhawk Road, known to motorists as the A402, follows in the path of a Roman road from Londinium to Calleva Atrebatum (“woods/forest of the settlers/inhabitants [a Celtic tribe]”) situated near modern day Silchester. For some reason the Roman road was considered haunted and it gained a nickname of the Devil’s Highway.
“The Kilburn Times” began reporting on west London news in 1868 for Irish and working class residents. Tuesday morning saw its website updated about the tragic events around Askew Road along with a picture gallery. Their final image depicted London Air Ambulance helicopter G-LAAB. It appeared to have allegedly landed at Cathnor Park serving as a nearest greenspace to Askew Road. Cathnor Park is built on a former WW2 Luftwaffe-delivered bomb site. ChatGPT reviewed the helicopter’s public Flightradar24 data for August 18th. It concluded Cathnor Park could be the likely helicopter mystery flight destination based upon flight times and distances. The AI described the situation as “particularly interesting”. London Ambulance publicly reports they received calls for service at 8:22 am following the 8:19 am Askew Road event. They say their dispatched helicopter did not pick up any victims. Flightradar24 notes the helicopter departing RAF Northolt on the north side of Heathrow at 7:41 am arriving at London City Airport at 7:51 am. It’s next publicly recorded activity shows leaving an unnamed point at 8:34 am with an 8:40 am arrival at RAF Northolt.
In addition to naval exploits and writing fiction for children, Captain Marryat also is credited with the 1817 Marryat’s Code of maritime flag signals. I asked ChatGPT to decode a cropped image of the triangular bikini panels worn by Dua Lipa last Saturday in Portofino, Italy using Marryat’s Code. ChatGPT suggested to also utilize the 1827 Code. It concluded the latter allowed a “very good resemblance” to a #7. However the other two results of #2 and #6 received only a “loose match” verdict. Here is a link to an uncropped image of Dua Lipa as published by the “Daily Mail:
https://i.dailymail.com/1s/2026/08/18/10/110689321-16060545-Dua_Lipa_showed_off_her_incredible_figure_in_a_triangle_bikini_a-a-78_1787045664341.jpg
A former 1886 era school adjacent to Cathnor Park was also destroyed by bombs in WW2. Grade II listed Greenside Primary School took its place in 1952. The famous communist and hot-tempered Anglo-Hungarian architect Ern? Goldfinger completed the project. Ian Fleming chose him as the template for the fictional character of Auric Goldfinger. A 2005 story by “The Guardian” offers a few details at their following link:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/jun/03/film.hayfestival2005
The “Goldfinger” movie has the villain delivering a nuclear bomb to Fort Knox in a Hiller helicopter G-ASAZ flown by Ms. Pussy Galore. As chance would have it, the same helicopter had already delivered Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton directly to the Heathrow airfield in 1963 during their roles as millionaires in the “VIPs” film as shown in the following Warners Archive link on Youtube. Spoiler alert: fog delays their onward departure to New York:
https://youtu.be/mzuzmIWSlcQ
Taking creatine increases my REM dream sleep, I had a psychology professor in college that said eating a pickle or doing something different before you go to bed can help you dream better as well to add to all the other useful information you posted up there…
Pickled before bed? Um…
Received an email last night from a guy I know locally –
“This was you, wasn’t it?” – and he supplied a link to a website for locals.
I copied the link and pasted into my secure web browser. It took me to a story that had been posted on that web site.
*
“There is still some good in this world – and it’s worth fighting for.”
– I was standing in the check-out line at Safeway this afternoon. In front of me was a tall, heavy set older man wearing an equally old and worn cowboy hat. In front of him has a woman in her twenties carrying a one- to two-year-old boy. She looked very tired and worn out.
– When the cashier rang up her total the woman looked heart broken – she didn’t have the money for everything and asked the cashier to take some of the items back.
– The old man in front of me said something in a low voice – took off his hat and removed a neatly folded twenty dollar bill from the inside hatband and handed it to the cashier. “This should cover it.” He said in the same low quiet voice.
– The cashier took the twenty but looked at the lady, “OK?” She asked the lady.
– The lady nodded yes, and stared at the old man. I think she had tears in her eyes.
– “It’s ok.., I’ve been there.” Same low voice., he said to her.
– The tired lady gave a faint smile, but she was embarrassed as she looked at the old man as he was putting his hat back on. He reached over the counter and picked up a small pack of fig newtons and handed it to the little boy. “Can you carry this for your Mom ? He asked nicely. The little boy smiled and took the small pack of six figs newtons. The woman now had tears running down her cheeks.
– She took the bag the cashier had loaded up, smiled very nicely at the old man and quietly left. She was flushed, embarrassed, thankful and tired – I don’t think she could have talked without breaking out in tears.
– The tired lady wasn’t capable at the time – so I will. “Thank you old cowboy. You made my day.”
*
“This was you, wasn’t it?” My friend asked.
Yeah., that was me. Got home and folded up another twenty and slipped it into the hat sweat band.
Try to have a good day, everyone.
Hats off!
you’re screwing with my ocular duct work, making it hard to focus
nice hat,, so ure heavy set, with a wink and a nod
thanks for sharing,, both, with her and us readers here
Heavy set – yes. Mainly through my shoulders, back and chest – which is why my left hook has been so successful.
Left hook and uppercut are always successful.
I lost the first fight I was ever in. I was like five or six. My brother was a 3-time Golden Gloves champion. My training started the next day.
Along with slipping and weaving he would have me box right handed one day and left-handed the next. He explained that fighting left-handed, disorients a lot of people because they don’t know how to handle a lefty fighter.
Once I took to it my dad explained that I was never to fight unless put upon, or was defending somebody who was being beaten unfairly or bullied.
Between the ages of 7 and 17 I ended a lot of fights with a right jab followed by a left cross or a left hook. It helped that dad let me use a bow saw and an ax starting when I was about 7, to help with the firewood. ‘Twas the start of my self-imposed ambidextrous experimentation…
Damned Well Done! dLynn
Thanks.
I embarrassed her., I know that., but it made me feel good. And the little boy got his fig newtons – which was important.
Ripple effect. That one gesture on your part may affect 50 or more people.
Ya done good…
Super El Nino now…likely into 2027. Outcomes? No monsoon? Extra winter in Europe. Hurricane season in Florida. Dry Canada? Extension of desert in Africa, no rice in Asia? Trump on a dark horse.. when food prices doubled in Africa riots ensued. Same likely in Iran if clerics are smart.
Past life regression……
I wonder what mine was???
Probably a cowboy cook… remember Wagon Train?
Charlie Wooster was the cook.
Wagon Train (1957) The Complete Classic Western Series
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sgGTtg5o5Hc&pp=ygUed2Fnb24gdHJhaW4gc2Vhc29uIDEgZXBpc29kZSAx
30 Chuck Wagon Meals Cowboys Ate on 3-Month Cattle Drives
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kgC4dfTprgc
Meet Wishbone (Paul Brinegar), the cook of Rawhide’s cattle drive crew…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J34KvLTWDhQ
back in the late 90’s and early 00’s I was keeping a dream journal. Had to give it up, was writing for 2-3 hours each day. Made the mornings tough to get anything else done. Have lucid dreams from time to time and continuation dreams, where after waking to hit the head (prostate issues you know) slip back into the same dream. Now a days I only journal the repeating dreams, ones I’ve had before which reoccur further down the line of time, days, weeks, months etc. Another vote for B6 before bed!
“ The good news for the crypto crowd: This is an easy path (nothing behind it) to use Compute as a vale if you’re paying attention…”
No, but tokens in AI compute will be based in blockchain (Crypto currency). I think my first clue was Ciscos configuration management software that generated a block chain token for each router configuration that was built. When the user was ready to load their configuration they simply loaded there configuration token into the GUI. Now simply substitute OEMs free tokens with actual crypto tokens and you have AI’s revenue model .simple, and something I modeled when taking Cisco courses about ten years ago……….
Not advice. Got MAGA .
re: Hello, this means nothing
feat: taking a plunge
Goodbye Mykonos, hello Portofino! First though, some may have viewed the Instagram reel of this past weekend from Blvd. St. Laurent, Montréal by Xavier Trudeau. DJ George listeners perhaps know the words to Xav’s new single “Downtown” which can’t be mistaken for a Petula Clark number.
As chance would have it under watchful eye of a security camera and water-stained ceiling tiles in a Little Portugal hardware store of Azorean name north of downtown Montreal, the new “Downtown” ditty played over speakers. Xav’s Instagram reel captured the moment thanks to Ms. Katy Perry allegedly handling camera duty. Former drama instructor and Canadian PM Trudeau materialized in frame. He offered a dadbod-lipsync homage to the song. One arm carried various housewares items, while the other wielded a toilet plunger. One imagines the plumbing trade hasn’t been sighted so high in the corridors of power since President Nixon’s Administration.
Meanwhile an ocean away in Portofino, “Hello” magazine photographed Katy Perry bestie Dua Lipa leading three gal pals on an Italian bachelorette weekend getaway. A gallery of images accompanied the report. As chance would have it, a Katy Perry lookalike featured as one of the three pictured friends of Mrs. Lipa. The title image of the gallery naturally featured Dua Lipa solo on her sunbed in three flag triangular bikini formation. Her outstretched forearm reversed to shield from sun’s rays conveyed via tattoo a meaningless message of “this means nothing”. In the background, a dogeared paperback rests patiently awaiting her further attention. The fictional work, “Rejection”, is a 2024 book by Thai-American author Tony Tulathimutte.
I don’t know what others in the game matrix would think, but the first notion that enters my mind from George’s “Co-telligence” book cover is the board of Battleship(s) game. Apparently it officially started out in 1931 as a two dimensional pencil on paper affair until the three dimensional board appeared around 1967.
Pretty odd last couple nights. Two ago had a bright flash followed by a definite frequency sound, medium level (we have 528hz on as we sleep and a Reich pyramid close by). That was totally in the dream and woke me.
Then last night just after falling into deep sleep it felt like something bopped me on my head, a physical feeling. Thought I hit a hard thing but there was only pillow. Then, about 4a.m. A vivid dream about a gang of not nice darker bad guys resulted in me physically defending myself, much to the disdain of my bedmate who woke me and made me stop flailing them. In minutes I was back asleep and off into a wonderful sailing experience that was totally relaxing. Wife, not so much. Grumpy morning.
I always look for my own hands in the dream. Seems to be the opening into other places. Also don’t ever stare at stuff. Just glance.
So fun .
Stiks
“I always look for my own hands in the dream.”
How to Select a Topic for Dreaming | Carlos Castaneda
Don Juan’s praxis of dreaming was an exercise that consisted of finding one’s hands in a dream. In other words, one had to deliberately dream that one was looking for and could find one’s hands in a dream by simply dreaming that one lifted one’s hands to the level of the eyes.
https://www.jasoncain.net/blogs/dreamingtopic
Have read The Art of Dreaming so many times. Such a wonder.
A guidebook.
Stiks