Whoopee

 Well, here in Central PA we are halfway through the July 4 holiday weekend.  Whoopee.  Oh, and we had rain last night.  Lots of rain.  While not a deluge, it was steady and sometimes heavy.  More is expected today, with forecasters calling for cloudy skies and thunderstorms.  Last night's rain will insure my lawn gets another mowing this week.  Whoopee.

Business was slow yesterday at the store.  I cut some blinds for a customer.  That was about all the action I saw.  This is not the time of year for flooring.  There will be customers, however, who show up because they need a new grill and need to buy one that's fully assembled and ready to go.  We all know people like this, the ones who wait until the last minute because it never occurs to them that they might want to be a little preemptive when it comes to grilling on the holiday weekend.  They will also complain because we have no grills left in the mid-price range and the only grills sitting out front on our concrete apron and the high end grills, and those that might survive one barbecue.  

Yesterday was also the first stage of the Tour de France!  Whoopee!  I do like watching it live and would love to be there.  This year it starts in Spain.  The opening stage took them through a number of Spanish towns including Guernica.  I was waiting for the announcers to mention Picasso, or the fire bombing of that city... nada.  Even a slight mention would be nice.  I actually got a chance to see that infamous Picasso painting a long time ago.  

And as might be expected, the fallout is still dropping from the Supreme Court decisions.  I like to remind people, that for every action, there is a reaction.  This is how life moves on.  This is also how change happens.  Conservatives, in their desperate attempt to turn back to clock do not understand this, which is why all of their attempts to alter the future will fail.  Without evolution there is death.

As a point of interest, I'd like to point out something I mentioned a while back the AI Jesus showing up on the internet.  I asked 2 people the same thing, "when the AI Jesus answers, could it be God speaking?"  One of them nodded and told I was asking a valid question.  The other, however, said he didn't trust AI, and would rather depend upon the old ways.  Translation:  the 2 individual doesn't really want God to speak, he wants everything that can be said, to have been already said.  God can't do any finetuning because His words might not be what the 2nd individual wants to hear.  No matter how safe the old ways seem to be, they will always fail. Life and religion will move on, leaving them far behind.  Whoopee!

AI Jesus

Hello, Thursday.  Outside temps are cool, upper 50s (F), though the forecast is for them to rise up into the mid 80s (F) today.  I can live with that.  If the forecasters are correct, however, we have more rain on the way.  I can live with that, too.  I don't mind mowing my small lawn.  Green is a very good color.

After Lily gets her walk this morning, and she and I do go for one everyday that it isn't raining, I'm going to head over to the store to make a purchase.  A door to go between the back porch and the kitchen is going to need to be installed.  That will be fun.  It's all part of the slow kitchen redo.  I say slow because I'm doing as much of it by myself as possible.  

I ordered a weight bench, it should be arriving tomorrow.  Yesterday I swung by Planet Fitness and put my membership on hold until November, mostly because of the summer kids, though they're not all kids.  Groups of students, both high school and college, will spend a lot of time there not really working out, but taking up space.  PF becomes their hangout, so to speak.

Results are back from my CT scan.  My lungs are unremarkable.  So is everything else, including my pleural membranes, my upper digestive track.  In fact, everything except my spine, which was noted for the arthritis.  

This, on the other hand is remarkable.  I've already pre-ordered my copy.  I simply cannot wait to go into spacer.

I sent my brother a link to an article on AI Jesus, so far no response.   He will answer your questions about life, love, and the pursuit of happiness... and He's on Twitch.  I do not doubt that some will embrace Him, others will not.  They will rage against Him.  He will alter they way Christians think of God, because suddenly He's going to be on your phone, your tablet, or your computer screen.  Certain Cracker Jack Crazy Christians will Him as a way  to manipulate the masses and let's be honest, phonies like Frankie Graham desperately want to manipulate the masses.  And, if you're not Christian, fear not, there will soon be an AI Bhudia, as well as a Hindu version and a Moslem version.  It will hurt the monotheistic religions worse than the philosophical religions because... well, it's hard believe that God didn't see this coming.