Thursday, No Clue What Comes Next

 - A ridiculous article in local news about the drastic increase in vehicles getting hit by trains.  I’ll never understand this.  It’s not like 10 million pounds of trains sneak up on anyone.  It’s not like they are hard to see.  Lord people! If you need someone to tell you to not stop on railroad tracks for any reason, perhaps you should not be driving anything bigger that a shopping buggy.  

- Remember the establishment? Yeah, well…hippies were right when they warned us about them in the 60s.  Maybe NEXT time we’ll all listen, although I’d bet the ranch we won’t.

- The concept of ‘Texas’ is changing, and not for the better. Houston is basically New York City now, Austin in San Francisco East..  No one knows what Dallas/Ft Worth is anymore.  Every grocery store I’ve been to in the last 10 years has food products made in Mexico that are specifically targeted to sell to people from there. Half the area has billboards etc exclusively in Spanish. New parking lots have spaces significantly smaller than those of previous times. I haven’t seen kids riding bikes in a decade.

But there is still a bit of what I remember as Texas out here.  It’s quite normal to see a pickup hauling a loaded horse trailer. Cattle standing around a fence line just off the road can number in the hundreds.  No one cares what color your skin is, as long as you live right. People out here still wave when passing another vehicle in the middle of nowhere, still remove their hats when greeting a lady.

- That said…read an article about a couple of robotics companies already in the initial testing phases of human shaped, upright walking, dexterous hands robots with artificial intelligence capacities.  This could be a good thing! A robot that cleans the house sounds without just scooting along the floor very interesting. 

- Had a catastrophic flip flop mishap…now I have a flip, but no functional flop.

- Some ‘country’ singer named Maren Morris apparently introduced her to Tyler child to some drag queen(s)…some person(s) then criticized her, at which point Ms Morris went on a tantrum.  Ya know what?  I don’t care in the slightest. That’s a personal matter, one that is none of anyone’s business. Stop making people famous for oddball decisions, please?  Just cover actual news 

- The clown car known as biden administration (I’ve run out of quote marks) wants $375 million for something it calls environmental justice.  Here’s a concept: instead of squandering targeted to only certain demographics, make such programs available to ALL Americans.  I’m not black or Hispanic, don’t consider myself poor, but if you’re planning to spend taxpayer money for people 3 miles from here but not me, we’ll…that’s racism and that’s bullshit.

- See ya when I see ya