Seeing Baby Birds

Tonight I was mowing the yard, and I saw the second baby bird on the lawn within a week and a half.

The other one I saw a week and a few days ago later died. Because I saw it the next day in about the same place, dead. Then other little creatures took over its decaying body, and it's either almost gone now or about gone.

Tonight there was another one, in a different place. This one I only saw once, hopping around. Then the next time I came back around I didn't see it.

I'm not ever going to try to "help" these creatures, because I don't know what to do, and because it goes against my philosophy, more importantly. They need to fend for themselves. And nature has its way, which is fly or die, get with the program or bye bye birdie.

It makes me a little sad to see it -- but that's just sentimentality, I know. They need to do their thing in life, like we all do.

A Breathing, Seething Monster

My few Twitter "friends" -- of whom I don't know a single one at this point -- come and go. Like breathing in and breathing out.

It's a breathing, seething monster.

Fire Extinguishers

I did something today that I have never done before. At least I can't remember having done it. So I probably haven't. Which is to buy a couple of fire extinguishers.

I have an upstairs, a downstairs, and a basement. There was already a fire extinguisher that was okay, so I kept it. But to have one on each floor I needed two.

So I went to the home improvement store and improved my home, with two brand new fire extinguishers. This is one of those things, like insurance, that you never want to get any good out of.

A DNA Test?

You know how sometimes you go by a telephone pole and you'll see some kind of advertisement on a sign nailed to it?

Of course we never see the people actually putting the signs up there, but somebody must be doing it. I always think they must be working for someone who pays them per sign, and is probably one of those places where you get a job through the classified ads, like "Work from your home."

Today was the first time I ever saw one that advertised getting a DNA test. Who knows who these people are? Could this possibly be the best way to get a DNA test, by calling an unknown number on a telephone pole?

Let's say you're in court and they ask about the DNA testing standards, and the best you can do is say that you got a test off of a telephone pole. It's kind of like getting an education from matchbook university.

Still Testing My New Voice Thing

I have not worked out all the kinks yet in using the Dragon 10 software, which listens to you talking on microphone and types it into the computer for you. I am getting some very unusual results including two trips to Amazon.com based on saying the word the, LOL.

And you definitely have to be careful when you say the word "new", because its default on that word is to open a new window whether you want to or not.

At this point, it has taken me longer to talk this blog post (almost) than it would have to just type it. But I can see how it would come in handy or could.

Meditation Room

In my new residence I had a roomful of boxes from the move. But from the very beginning I had it as an idea to set aside a room for spiritual pursuits.

This was also an idea that I had for my previous home, over 11 years ago. But it only lasted about a week, because we needed the room to store stuff in.

Here I seem to have a little more room, so ... so far I can do what I want. First, though, I had to clean out the boxes from the room. Some are in the closet, some are in another room, etc., but the key thing is this particular room is cleared out.

Except now I have a rug, a chair, a tiny table, a small bookcase with spiritual books on it, and a tiny fan. I've sat there a few times ... getting used to it. And it's been nice so far.

Organic Dark Chocolate Covered Espresso Beans

Someone gave me a pack of organic dark chocolate covered espresso beans for Christmas, which I left in the basket and kept under some other junk or in a closet.

But since I recently moved I was unpacking and saw the stuff in this basket, including these beans.

They were "best by" sometime in February. But I decided to try them anyway. It turns out I like them.

But the weird thing about them is I thought they were candy. The chocolate on them certainly is candy. But I ate about half the pack before I realized the insides are actual espresso coffee beans, not candy. So I'm eating coffee?!

Still, they're pretty good. The only problem with them is that coffee beans never melt in your mouth, so if you don't get every bit of it swallowed, hours later you'll be finding little pieces of coffee in there, maybe stuck between your teeth. That's annoying.

Debit Card Connections

The whole world is connected, the whole thing with debit cards and machines and kiosks.

It makes me wonder, how in the world are they keeping track of all these things?

My PIN number, it's out there. No one is supposed to know it, but every machine I access seems to know it's right.

A Night For Abbey Road

I'm listening to "Abbey Road."

I was downtown and saw some neo-hippies and thought about the line, "Here come old flattop." So it's a night for it.

Of course it still sounds great, just like itself.

You've Got A Screw Loose

The thing about having a screw loose is that you don't know you have. I think that's true.

You could have inklings of it. I think I have occasional inklings of it.

I'm thinking about my clarity. With age, of course we all have one foot in the grave. And our minds precede our feet, since we can be thoughtless cadavers even before the hospital will accept us for experimentation.

I've been moving. I've actually been moved in my new place for nearly a week but still the move is going on. There's boxes everywhere. Bookcases aren't set up, I'm not sure where to put anything.

About this "screw loose" theme, I felt like I had something of a loose screw while moving. But it could be a normal loosening of what can be re-tightened. Because moving carries with it a million little things that have to be done; it's enough to tax anyone.

When you don't know where things are, when you're schedule isn't yet rock-solid, things can be forgotten easier or overlooked entirely. So that's part of why I feel like I have a loose screw, probably.

I want clarity, I really do. And I believe I shall have it, especially if I go point by point through my tasks over the next few weeks. Then all my screws will be tight and I'll be all right!