We had a little bit of an ice storm on Friday. Today, everything is melting. It's 4 C (I think that's around 40 F). It's almost March! Hang in there!
Another quote: Wyoming has four seasons: Almost Winter, Winter, Still Winter, and Fouth of July. The encouragement is much appreciated, Louanne, albeit a bit optomistic for this area. You're farther north than I am, but at this latitude and over a mile above sea level, March is Still Winter. Most years we start to see a few bulbs poking up by the end of that month, but I have my doubts about this year. We're still getting negative numbers F here, something that usually doesn't happen in February. A couple of days ago, it was -25 F which is around -35 C.
I've never done this kind of thing before, have you? Yes I have, but only a time or two. Amazing Rhythm Aces Third Rate Romance
I said that on Twitter but was instantly flamed by those I disagree with, and declared a traitor by those I agree with.
It's been brutal here in Osaka. Dropped below freezing several times, and twice we had dustings of snow that stuck until sunrise! Of course, we're at about the same latitude as Los Angeles, but for this Chicago boy Osaka has a pretty pleasant spring, the worst day of summer imaginable for three months, a nice fall, a late fall, and back to spring. A few years ago it never got below 28c/82f between June and September. Never, not at 4am, and the humidity, cicadas, and cockroaches just make it worse.
"The man who talks for both sides is not to be trusted by extremists on either." Let them project their hatred on each other and fight all the time. I'll be enjoying my life.
It sounds like you're trying to make this about politics, which isn't what it was about. The song was about a breakup, but when I heard the lyrics they struck me as wise in general. And I wasn't remotely political way back then. It's about 'reeling in your projections' onto other people—realizing that often the things you hate them for are things you're guilty of as well, or very similar things anyway. Once you've made that realization it's a lot easier to avoid dehumanizing people, blaming your problems on them, and playing the victim, all of which are terrible for psychological health. It also sounds like you're talking about fence-sitting, or 'not choosing a side'. It doesn't have to mean that. Most of us have a side in general. I'm just saying be wary of getting pulled to the extremes. That's where the craziness is. On any side.
A few other quotes that carry essentially the same message— Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones Let he who is without sin among you cast the first stone And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? For with the same judgment you pronounce, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
"History may be written with blood and iron but it's printed with ink." Gustav Hasford, The Short Timers
I was going through the humorous sub category of fiction on audible, and found a litrpg book. "Big sneaky barbarian" about half way through and so far the humor has been juvenile, to be generous. There was one line that is worth quoting though. "You have two brain cells, and they are competing for third place."
The club is planning to offer a one -day course in countering the mass shooter threat. - Sign of the times, I guess, from my sportsmans' club newsletter.
“How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.” ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
"Granma's not old. She's new." My 5-year-old nephew's response when it was explained to him why my mother wouldn't join him outside to play football. She got a kick out of that, if not the football.
"I am not trying to say that I was happy, during those weeks of hauling a sledge across an ice-sheet in the dead of winter. I was hungry, overstrained, and often anxious, and it all got worse the longer it went on. I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy." - Ursula K. LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness There are so many wonderful phrases and sentences in this book, but this one just struck me as I read it. "The thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize."
“In law school the only thing I would have voted for Obama to do would have been to shut up." -- classmate "At 15, Emmanuel [Macron] already had such a human and intellectual maturity that he could probably only be attracted, I realize it now, by an adult woman." -- his Jesuit science teacher lmfao
"On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people." "Odd," said Arthur. "I thought you said it was a democracy." "I did," said Ford. "It is." "So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?" "It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they voted in more or less approximates to the government they want." "You mean they actually vote for the lizards?" "Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course." "But," said Arthur, going in for the big one again, "why?" "Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in." - Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish.
