The Tour de France

Vingegaard in new race kit this year, photo from Team Visma

This week we’ve been watching the Tour de France. Just watched Mark Cavendish win stage 5 which was an utter disappointment. I think if you can actually win, win. It should be on merit. As the Peleton as a bunch slowly all rolled towards the finish and kept STARING AT HIM, like GO ALREADY MARK, gees – he finally thought to make a go for it and wasn’t met with any resistance beside a couple of people pretending to break and then falling back into the bunched Peloton which didn’t bother to create any breaks the entire day or work that hard because they knew they had to get team Astana to the front lined up like little ducks so they could give Mark the win. Let the young people have their race Mark! He seemed so strung out on bullshit drugs that I don’t know if he fully understood what everyone in the Peleton had to know: the fix was in. His win didn’t effect over all standings. UAE looks in good form to win the race this year as Visma is missing Sepp Kuss and their young pup, Vingegaard had a terrible crash a few months back breaking a collar bone, puncturing a lung and breaking ribs. He looks a little frail, pale and has no swagger about him although of course being an exceptional talent.

Solar Effects of Spraying

Stratotanker hard at work on the weather.

Lemon drop skies are when they’ve sprayed a nasty bit of shit into the upper atmosphere which magnifies the sun – it becomes a big white ball that seems too large, too bright and the quality of light is very odd. The spraying means all the harmful rays of the sun instead of bouncing mostly away off the top clouds and water vapor, instead get trapped and bounce around at lower altitudes causing skin burns, foliage damage, vision loss, and more — or I mean that is what people are saying. I don’t think it’s true, you would never convince me that going out on a day like today was a bad idea, but some people think it is……it’s on the principle like, saying there is a pandemic for instance, I’m just making stuff up here, but let’s say you declared a pandemic but nobody was getting ill so the government released something to make people ill. And some people might speculate that if they were running a scam about the environment, let’s call it, ‘Global Warming’ they might, oh’ use Stratotankers to spray all day.

Total normal cloud formation in Illinois / Instagram repost

This is all conspiracy theory an completely not true because a super power that worked on weather technology since the 1940’s – the 40’s – never figured it out (ignore all those unclassified documents…) And although we have AI and electric cars and radiation shielded satellites (recall half our satellites look into deep space but they won’t tell us why and we have neutrino telescopes…) – it’s utterly out of the realm of possibility that we would have figured out how to form clouds, well maybe we know how to make a cloud but nearly global weather control would be monstrous, and a person would see skin cancer rates explode (they are) and respiratory deaths shoot up (yes). Also, we most definitely do not have lasers. That’s ridiculous. The world never moved on from nuclear weapons, tank and heavy artillery. We’re still in 1913 basically as far as 90% of weapons go, a laser you say? I say Howitzer! Maybe the public never thought weapons would get pointed at them. 5th Generation warfare or as the Chinese call it, asymmetrical attack. I mean, if such things did exist, which they definitely do not – the people themselves **are the target**

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The Pacific Tree frogs used to be all green, but within the last two years they have begun to turn more brown. They are modifying their camouflage probably in response to an important environmental modification like more UV, additionally a lot of plants are turning purple.

Water Fasting and Reading The Water Cure

Well now that is settled. I did a water fast on July 3rd which went really well. I’m going to be fasting on Wednesday and Sunday. Fasting doesn’t do anything for weight loss for me, but I like to use those days for spirituality, prayer, yoga and chores. It sharpens me up.

I decided not to go back to studying Japanese – I’m going to learn Korean. I really like the language, I like saying Aigoo and being an Ahjumma.

My mustard is sprouting!

Again, shame about having to put my mustard trellises right over those windows of the cracked out neighbors. Shoot. I hope it doesn’t inconvenience them.

Old Marley from next door. He’s worked his way into a can of catfood every morning. Not sure if he’s going to go home or not.

This week we had issues with the crackheads dogs coming into the yard and chasing the cats and getting on the deck and barking and being agro. We have bought some additional temporary fencing for the side of the house which will enclose the backyard completely. I chased them with the baseball bat a couple of times last week. A lady from the state showed up and delivered papers which caused a ruckus with the dogs and she nearly got bitten, but the neighbors are absolutely teflon and I don’t think anything will happen to them as long as our overlords are trying to cause mayhem within the working class. “Do you know the fastest way to break a person and their community? Introduce drugs!” <– K-Drama about mobsters I started watching. Well, at least that’s a known fact SOMEWHERE.

Our tsunami hazard zone sign at the beach
Walking the beach this morning barefoot

This week I am reading The Water Cure and it’s been really interesting. I think the key is salt and water – and he talks about energy not being from sugar primarily but how our bodies are hydro-electric and that makes a lot of sense to me. It’s an interesting read. I cut salt, but the salt from processed food, not natural salt. I have been drinking a lot more water and like I said before will be fasting two days a week.

I drink way too much coffee. Let that be on the record.

I went to the beach this morning for a walk and watched the pelicans skim the waves and the white caps zip themselves up – almost meet one another and then roll onto the beach. Waves are like people I guess we all hit a high note and roll out and are gently on the way out at the end. The allure of easy was my meditation this morning and although I don’t recall now my sudden jolt of revelation I realized that the true way was to live simply and have self-discipline. I think that a lot anyway, but it all fell into place in a way that I could see the whole puzzle if only for an instant and then like the waves was gone. I meditated and walked while Jason went for a run.

I love my husband so much it’s almost silly. I think I’m dreaming sometimes because it’s what I always wanted, it’s what I wanted as a kid to be a princess and meet my very intelligent super smart husband who would be clever like Doctor Who or Mr. Spock.

I will work hard and drink water.