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Well, Hurricane Jose does not look like it will travel our way but now storms Lee and Maria (especially Maria) look like they could get into the Gulf. It’s really hard to start thinking about other things when we have these storms constantly forming in the Atlantic and looking like they will travel our way. Two…

[I am waiting for one more hurricane to be done with and then I can get back to normal. I don’t like the suggested path of the hurricane out in the Atlantic so I can’t rest easy. Although I don’t think it will come here but still… I’m so tired. I can’t wait for December so this…

This will be a quick post because I am too distracted by the three storms sitting in the Atlantic/Caribbean/Gulf. After Hurricane Harvey, our town can’t take on more water until everything has subsided. Just to the north of me, there are some homes still flooded. Irma is not supposed to come here, so why am…

I’m really tired but am on the other side of the storm/hurricane. My community did not flood but we are bounded by flooded areas just north of us, by the dam somewhat to the west (it’s not far enough away for me!), some flooded streets to the east of us, and a closed down intersection…

Last week I said I would try to do a post on this book The Second Machine Age and its prescriptions for what to do during this robot era, but I still need to finish taking notes and arranging my thoughts. But more importantly, even though I don’t talk about such things, I need to process the…

This is so distressing. Here are two articles about the rural poor trying to “survive” on whatever money they can get. One family relies on disability checks and the other on begging (and possibly selling drugs). This article is about 4 generations on disability checks. The first generation, the father, got injured. The second generation, the…