Five Years

 It has been over five years since my last post.  I have been putting my stray thoughts in nice notebooks, writing with fountain pens, instead of writing anything here.  Still, I have more ideas than time.  There are two at-home projects that I'm going to begin to bend my will toward.  One to develop my computer/technical expertise, one to exercise my RPG creativity.  Blogger is not where I intend to hatch or explore these activities.  I'm going to host my own blog, and export all of my blogger content to the new platform.  The first step will be to build a routine to make room for this time, small steps to follow.  With school starting up again, it should be easier that the last six months have been.  Now I need to setup a slot in the calendar to write again...

Projects

I need to write some code. The first project is a front end and data warehouse for Eve Online for useful economic data. Most of what is out there, is not really useful, especially if you have experience with manufacturing or economics. The second project is to dust off my programming project from my senior year in college and rewrite them with new programming tools and new hardware. Particularly the chaos theory and encryption tools, with OpenGL and CUDA support. I am discouraged with the prospects of finding a currently supported UNIX/Linux for the Mac mini. The MacPPC architecture is not high enough in the food chain to have a lot of active support. There is no FreeBSD package repository for it, and one of the key ports application lost the web URL for the source. I'm down to OpenBSD, Lubuntu, and Xbuntu. This is the Mac mini where the office of Steve Jobs answered my e-mail to expedite my order because baby Lucy was on the way around the time of the back ordered shipment. I have a bit of sentimental attachment to that box.

Back from a long pause.

Now with that wretched cretin Barack Obama out of office, and the vile evil of Harry Reid too, I feel like I can breathe again. I just could not stand to get roped into the political discussions at work. I just retreated further into hermit mode. Eight long years of scum and villainy over, and an even darker future with Hillary narrowly avoided. Now with the economy on the razor's edge, and a decade of future capital blow into oblivion, I am slightly hopeful. While I did not vote for the buffoonery of Trump, if he shrinks the size of Government, reduces regulations, and perhaps approaches a balanced budget... maybe...

But what will certainly happen in the next four years is that I will be endlessly entertained by the wailing, teeth-gnashing, and cloth-tearing progressives who are completely at a loss at what to do. Hillary outspent Trump almost two-to-one and failed to pull off a victory. The next round will be a big breaking point for the morally bankrupt Democratic National Committee. Wikileaks has make that whole campaign an interesting read.

So while Trump mocks the press, the Progressives whine, and I sip my tea, maybe I can get some writing projects done and finish up my Pathfinder adventure campaign notes completed. I've let my speculated domains thetruthaboutbarack.com and thetruthabouthillary.com queue up for expiration. I need to keep my thoughts positive. I've blocked CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, Techcrunch, Buzzfeed, any many more. People that have gone into a Trump-bashing, hate-fueled fit are blocked too. I haven't unfriended anyone over politics because that is just silly. Conversations are always welcome, but I'm not going to listen to rants aimed to social media anymore. I largely kept my anger quiet, so I'm not going to listen to anyone else's. The DNC helped make Trump president, now they are stuck with him. I laugh every time I think about it. It is a shame the Libertarians did not fare better with the two main candidates being such poor choices. Ah well.

I've got plenty of game material to read, reread Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Easy Lesson, Murry Rothbard, and several Honor Harrington series novels. Eve online is an interesting study in economics too, although most of the online tools for market analysis are rubbish. Old PC strategy games, and some programming projects will fill the fun time too. Evening walks around the neighborhood are a possibility now with the weather warming up, and I've got a new notebook on the way. Yes, things are coming around. Time for some sleep.

Damned Goverment

I hear a lot of people complain about Government waste, but few who are willing to cut everything down in proportion.  The two party system vigorously defends the programs and bureaucracies that were installed under their watch, and increase them when they some back to power.  Since 2008, there has been no Federal Budget, only a never ending stream of stop-gap spending measures.

Solution: cut 2 Trillion dollars in spending next year.  And if you don't think it can be done, go outside and get some fresh air.  Then beat your head into the ground until you understand.

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"The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home." -Confucius

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48 Hours of Rain Playlist

So after days and days of rain...  I started a tirade of songs/video on Facebook, then I turned it into a playlist on YouTube.

Remembering...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxFvpHUIG2s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdyxPugh1Og

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx7vUsydtok

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og1HAkjOuL0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVAWKfJ4Go

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Keolc7BpTcI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwoNBaOh1_g