The First Order of Things

 I've been having discussions with meta AI about the shadow banning of this blog beginning in 2020 after I posted an audio song that I did which was critical and somewhat disparaging of one of the candidates in the upcoming presidential election.

Somehow, my view went from 600 per day (the result of "a million monkeys," searching on a million computers, over the course of 24 hours; with many of them probably chancing upon this blog after searching for a keyword like "skeezer") 

Of course 90% of them might have landed on the front page, and thought "this is not what I want (not in the least, yuk!) and backed out.... of it 

But, nonetheless that figure dropped overnight from 4 to 6 hundred, to an average of 16, which happens to be the number of my followers. They have demonstrated their incorrigibility by becoming followers, so, might as well let them see the posts, and the fact that they are reading a blog that only 16 people notice, not 600, well that will be a tip off that blogs critical of a certain candidate in the upcoming election are not popular at all, type of thing...

For, the search engine began hiding my blog from The world at Large, beginning right after I posted something critical of one of the candidates in the upcoming presidential election of 2020, in the USA. 

Meta AI told me that if I "correct course;" (Meta AI's words; not mine) then the algorithm will stop doing what Google denies that it ever does).

A s**tty job of correcting course, so far...

The first order of the day has to do with the orange bucket, visible in the photo above, taken from where I sit.

This is pursuant to one of the top five items on my to-do list, made from where I sit.

Focusing on the immediate surroundings, (dangling verb clauses, and) next; I have to to get some Saran wrap, and some live crickets from Petco.

Then, I will have me a genuine DIY lizard trap!

I have placed my grow light next to the closet where palmetto bugs have a community; and hopefully if I put some rocks and some places to hide (from the human and his furry minion) and put the plant light on during daylight hours, the lizards will thrive. 

Net In Yahoo 

I am going to name the biggest lizard Benjamin, and I will think of the palmetto bugs in the closet as Hamas terrorists.

I think this would be the correct course...

This is a do-it-yourself lizard trap brown anoles are going for over $30 for a 10-pack of them, shipped live.

And, while this might be the lazy Man's approach to the problem of palmetto bugs starting to get a little too populous, I found this bucket for free in a dumpster, and I will get Saran wrap and crickets.

Basically, you allow the lizards to go in after the crickets through a small hole cut out of the Saran wrap.

This hole in the transparent film, they can then not relocate, when frantically trying to leave the bucket because of the arrival of a a human,who is looking down upon their cricket party like a god.

This is kind of how some people have drowned after taking a cold plunge through a hole in the ice (to revitalize themselves and increase their longevity). It all looks the same when they look up and try to find the hole, exasperated by them freaking out, as if a giant god was staring down at them...

Then, you collect up lizards; release them under your grow light, and start scolding Harold with a rolled up newspaper, if ever bothers Benjamin or any other of the "ATF" reptiles...

That's about it for now.

I am coming up to speed on the use of modern technology, and it has only taken me 20 minutes to make this post which bodes well for the future of this blog...

And, now that I have discussed things with meta AI (which did admit that when I'm chatting with it, it is reading all of my Facebook posts and viewing all of my friends posts looking at everything I've shared what I've liked what I did not like what my friends like what they have shared and in a matter of a few seconds is responding to me as the person that I obviously am, who's soul has been laid bear, by about 40 GB of data..) I feel even more up to speed. 

Finger Painting

Ihave done some 3 or 4 finger paintings with the paint I got at the Family Dollar.

I just have yellow, blue and red.

I found out that you can use your nails as kind of an eraser by scraping right down to the substrate paper.

I put the above one, done whilst tripping on a whole 60 grams of mushroom gummies, in a frame with a glass covering, so that the reflection of a lamp that was lit about ten feet behind me, off the glass, is creating the wildfire, seen ablaze in the valley, and threatening to cross the Los Angeles River, right behind the Golden Gate Bridge.

The city to the far right has been incinerated, like almost everything to the far right in California.

The Sierra Nevada range of mountains in the distance are all in volcanic eruption...

23 Hours

 ... until I get food money.

I'm kinda brimming with vitality; making me seriously consider taking the bus to the plasma place across the river, on a lark.

They can't give me the results of the blood sample I was required to give the last time I went there, over the phone.

I'm pretty sure they would have notified me if I had HIV or syphilis, since that would be a matter of public health -not only could I not donate, but might want to get something like that looked at, type of thing..

It would be somewhat of a gamble. If they took my plasma, I would be returning with a couple cans of Fancy feast for Harold out of the 75 bucks I would get, and if not, I'd be just about done with the whole process..

I found out that the best way to remove "forever" molecules from the bloodstream is to donate plasma and let the centrifuge pull them out, through the force of gravity. That had been the deal clincher in my deciding to give plasma donation another "spin."

Otherwise, I could just do a one day fast before returning to the keto diet that has me feeling like a million bucks..

I guess that depends on whether I stay up for the next 12 hours watching one YouTube video after another, or if I'm somehow awake and well rested by noon...

The replacement laptop has been a disappointment so far.

I thought a T460 would be better than the T420 it replaced but, 7 years newer means stripped down and minus the deprecated features like a DVD/CD player, extra USB ports, etc.

The hard drive is even solid state, so I couldn't pop the old drive in and resume computing like nothing happened.

Everything is geared towards cloud computing it seems, with less emphasis on the size of the storage device. That's just more data to loose in the event of a physical catastrophe, why not store your whole life in the cloud, where the data can be sifted through, er, in order that the AI engine can learn all about you, in order to better tailor their services to you, type of thing...

The Japanese Art of Tidying Up