Everyone Should Know This

What’s something you believe everyone should know.

Daily writing prompt

Anyone else catch the grammar error in the daily prompt today? Has there been an error like this in every question?

Here are a few things that everyone should know:

  • Everything is true.
  • God’s an Astronaut.
  • Oz is Over the Rainbow,
  • and Midian is where the monsters live…

Wait… that isn’t it… that’s a line from the Clive Barker movie Nightbreed.

So what was I going to write about?

Oh yeah, now I remember.

Here is a definitive truth that everyone should know…

Fascism is bad. Like… not a little bad, or sort of bad, but absolutely evil and very, very bad. Dig? Nazis are bad. Fascists are bad. Fascist collaborators are bad. Fascist sympathizers are bad. The entire free world once banded together to remove fascism from civilization. That was good. Destroying fascist states and fascist people is good.

It is really very simple. You can all understand it, right? If you start thinking that maybe that hitler guy had some good ideas, then you need to understand that those ideas were not good, they were bad. Also, it probably means that on a core level you are bad as well.

Stop being fascists.

Okay, here is a bonus based on a few responses to this question that I have read this morning.

Twelve people have walked on The Moon. They were all Americans.

  • Apollo 11 Mission
    • Neil Armstrong
    • Buzz Aldrin
  • Apollo 12 Mission
    • Pete Conrad
    • Alan Bean
  • Apollo 14 Mission
    • Alan Shepard
    • Edgar Mitchell
  • Apollo 15 Mission
    • David Scott
    • James Irwin
  • Apollo 16 Mission
    • John Young
    • Charles Duke
  • Apollo 17
    • Gene Cernan
    • Harrison Schmitt

If you have decided that these 12 people did not walk on The Moon then I suggest you get your head out of your ass and grow the fuck up.

Thank you, good night.

It is Time

Enough talking about it. Enough thinking about it. It’s time to actually do something.

I have two 40+ year old guitars that need to be taken to a luthier for a consultation and possibly some scary repair work. I’ve been thinking about it for years. I’ve been talking about it for almost as long as I’ve been thinking about it. The work that needs to be done is terrifying. Assuming of course that the two guitars actually need the work that I think they need.

I am going to try and schedule something for this weekend. Failing that, next weekend. It is time to stop thinking about it and actually do something about it.

I am scared for my two babies.

My 1978 Gibson Les Paul Custom that I bought in 1990… does it need new frets?

My 1979 Gibson ES-335 Pro that I bought in 2000… does it need frets along with a wiring harness?

Like I said, I am scared for my two babies.

Sky

I have the Hipstamatic App set to save off an unfiltered copy of each photo it takes. The sky looked cool over the highway during my morning commute today so I snapped a pic. This is a rare occurrence of the unfiltered pic being better than the filtered pic, in my humble opinion at least.

No hipstamatic filter or square crop
Hipstamatic filter and square crop

Then again… maybe the filtered one is better than I thought. I don’t know. What does it all mean? Does it even matter?

Hybrid Work Environment

We had an announcement at work today. Starting in March our hybrid work environment is going to be slightly less than the current hybrid. Something like that, at least.

We’re going from four days at home and one day in the office each week to three days at home and two days in the office.

None of us are happy. We’ve been seeing the writing on the wall for a while, but now that the announcement has been made, it’s a huge bummer. We have plenty of time to work out the details (I’m thankful for that, at least) but I would much rather not have to deal with it. If it were up to me we’d be 100% remote.

Oh well.

November Music

It’s November 1st. Welcome to National Solo Album Month. Am I going to take part this year? Probably. I started a Trello board and today’s photo-a-day picture is a guitar. The signs are pointing to yes, but I am not feeling terribly motivated yet. We’ll see how it goes.

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