Diving Down Deep ( #AtoZChallenge )

 

      Deep diving looks interesting enough, but I've never been daring enough to try it.  For one thing I'm not overly fond of water activities.  And then also, I don't want to die...

Diving Down Deep

      Don't ever expect to find me deep diving in the ocean or anywhere else.  Drowning is one of my fears and I don't want to dive into deep waters.  If I want an idea of what the experience would be like then I'll watch a movie or documentary about it and never get wet (unless I spill my drink on me).  

      On the other hand, I love deep diving in the mental sense.  I can totally get lost in research.  Or just random googling for that matter.  Sometimes when I want to know about something enough to research it then I'll go on one of those deep diving expeditions into the depths of the internet or reference books. I love reference books and have many throughout my home.  Once I get started on a research quest I can get lost for hours.  And I never come close to drowning.  That's the kind of deep dive I desire.

    How about you?  Do you like research?  Do you find yourself getting immersed in the internet and books?

      

Climate Change Craziness ( #AtoZChallenge ).

       Climate change is real.  It's called weather. And it changes.  Seems like when faced with an inability to control things around us, some people will resort to some crazy changes thinking they have control of things.  And then things change.  What a crazy world!

Climate Change Craziness

     Call me what you want, but I'm not on board with the climate change hoax--at least not to the extent that some are.  I don't deny that humans contribute to climate change and I'm all for trying to come up with solutions.  Logical solutions that make sense economically as well in every other way.  

        Am I caught up in the cause?  Not in any big way, but I do my part.  I just don't go to extremes like some wackos in our society.  Most of those people are probably more anarchist than anything constructive and meaningful to the rest of us.  And if they have true passion then they are grossly misguided in their efforts.

     Climate change solution hoaxes are everywhere and they cost someone billions or even trillions of dollars--usually you and me the taxpayer.  I think about the huge solar power generating facility that I'd seen pop up in the desert at the California/Nevada border a number of years ago--the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility. 

      For miles as one approached from either direction on I-15 highway, one would be practically blinded by the brilliant light that emanated from a tower amidst a vast field of what I had thought to be solar panels--3500 acres of them covering an area of 5 square miles.  Then after researching I found out that they were not solar panels but special mirrors aimed up to where one can see that blinding light where there is a large tank of water that is set to boiling by the reflected light.  It sounds crazy to me, but that is another one of those crazy ideas that came out of the Obama years that is now being dismantled because it is not practical.  I could have told them that.

       Now they have a field of mirrors to dispose of.  Thankfully they are close to Las Vegas and not so far from Los Angeles.  I'm sure they'll find somebody to take the mirrors, but they'll never get the money back that they wasted on this project.  But that goes for most of the other climate change nonsense that corrupts so much of the world governments these days.  

       Keep working on things folks.  Some good things are happening and some that make little sense in the grander scheme of things.  Listen to the science.  And I mean all science.

        Do you have any particular fears related to climate change?  Do you believe that it will take something far bigger than humans to destroy the Earth?   Is there a climate change solution that you have found to be particularly absurd?

  

     

     

 

Bring Beer, Bob! ( #AtoZChallenge & #IWSG )

 

     Back before cell phones you just had to guess what to do.  Plans were necessary to put together any organized event and everybody just did what they figured was best after that.  Now we can just call on our cell phones to check in.  Want me to bring anything?

       Back in the day as they sometimes say, cellphones would have been real handy.  Now it's hard to think about not having a cellphone on me wherever I am.  Connecting and keeping up is pretty easy now for the most part.  I could have used that access when I was on the road working in the eighties.  I had to conduct my business in phone booths or motel room phones.  A lot of change was required since that's what those phones took.

      Then there were the camping trips in the seventies with my Tennessee friends.  We would frequent campgrounds in the Great Smokies where we would sometimes set up camp for several days as friends came and went.  Newcomers to the camp would bring whatever supplies they figured they or someone else might need.  There might be food, but mostly beer.  I didn't drink much back then so the beer was of little consequence to me.  But most everyone else enjoyed their beer.

       Yes, the cellphone would have been a real game changer.  In fact I can hear it now:  "Bring beer, Bob!  We're running low!"

  The Insecure Writer's Support Group

Join us on the first Wednesday of each month in Alex J. Cavanaugh's Insecure Writer's Support Group--a forum of writers who gather to talk about writing and the writer's life. For a complete list of participants visit Alex's Blog. 
     The co-hosts for the April 2 posting of the IWSG are Jennifer Lane, L Diane Wolfe, Jenni Enzor, and Natalie Aguirre.

April 2 question - What fantasy character would you like to fight, go on a quest with, or have a beer/glass of wine with?

        I'm not much on fantasy and very rarely read it.  Forget the fantasy characters.  I think I'd rather go back to have an adventure with some of my old friends from the past.  Sometimes the past seems like a fantasy anyway so that's enough for me.