GPS And Living In The 'Stone-Age'

 Escaped the hospital yesterday....six days of treatment (Shingles)....fairly serious. Focus of the bout?  My head and a area about the size of a grapefruit above my eye....swelling up the eye big-time.  So I ended up getting three IV bags of solution per day....in a semi-luxury hospital room in Wiesbaden (it had a 48-inch TV, refrigerator, and free coffee/water/sodas).

So the the GPS topic.

I watched a podcast where some younger guy asked the question....how did we survive before GPS came along?

He kinda has a point.

At various times (Tacoma, Shreveport, Denver, and Tucson)....I kept a city paper-map in the car....under the driver's seat.   It was 'survival-driving'.  

It was not the best way, and it forced you to plan as much of a your trip ahead of time....as possible.

These map-talents existing today?  I doubt it.   From the over-50 folks.....they probably still have it....but the under-30 group?  No....they won't  be needing map talents.

My use today of GPS?  It's inter-connected with the bus-rail App. Plus the car itself has a independent program.....which you need to program on some trips.

Yeah, I've gotten use to it.

Off For 4/to/5 Days

 Doc says shingles....wants to put me in a local Wiesbaden clinic....for treatment.  So for a couple of days....no chatter.

UFO/UAP Chatter

 I sat and read through/viewed....the gov't UFO/UAP file release from Thursday.  You can do so yourself....here at...https://www.war.gov/UFO/.

I'll make three observations.

First, nothing fantastic.  If you were waiting for the big-release...this isn't it.

Second, several space items...stuff seen while on the Apollo mission  (for example).

Third, there's some video from the past 10 years....Army/Air Force  recon vehicles 'seeing' spheres.....which can't be explained.

Yeah, it's just enough to ask more questions.

Alien Chatter

 Former National Science Foundation Program Director Dr. Anna Brady-Estevez gave a talk in the past few days.

What she said?  She's about 95-percent CERTAIN....multiple nonhuman species (aliens) are here on Earth....interacting and living among us.

I sat and pondered over the talk.

If you'd asked me....I'd give the talk a 50-50 chance (nowhere near 95-percent).

What she basically hints....dozens....hundreds...thousands....of non-humans are walking around...engaged in Earthly affairs. Some probably voted for Trump.  Some probably own gas stations. Some probably star in zombie movies. Some probably distill whiskey. Some probably play for the New York Yankees.  Some probably are dance-instructors or reality-TV stars. Some might be meth-addicts or coffee-bingers.  

The next step....well, you will start to eyeball your neighbor...your wife....your boss...even your President....wondering if they are the non-human.

Dyscalculia?

I had to look up the term. 

Dyscalculia means you have a lifelong neurodevelopmental learning disorder.  Roughly....one out of twenty have this problem.

Effect? It causes persistent difficulties in understanding numbers, quantities, and basic arithmetic. 

This is the kid who you tell some word-problem....indicating 16-percent being the end-result, telling you that that this represents 30 people....and the 'game' is to figure what you really started with.  The kid looks at you....thinking it's a rocket-science problem.  No matter what you do....he's lost.

As you expect...mental math is impossible....and there's constant anxiety in this one single class.

The guy/gal isn't stupid or low IQ....they just have math jumbled up in their head.

Invasion!!!!

 I sat yesterday and watched about ten minutes of a guy talking over the newest rumor/BS....that somewhere in the US government....a group is planning to stage a fake alien invasion.

I pondered over this for the past twelve hours.

First, within the state of Alabama....we are fully prepared (armed)....with enough ammo to hold off the fake aliens. 

Second, to reach a point of a quarter of society accepting this....you'd  have to have some 'event' where 50,000 Americans die, and I just don't see gov't idiots willing to go that far.

Third, if this amounts to just six football field-size alien craft....no one is going to  believe the event.  

Fourth, you likely get one single chance on this....if you ever try to stage a 2nd or 3rd fake invasion.....no one will fall for  it.

Finally, just a bet....the minute the fake invasion starts up....it's likely that the good-guy aliens will say  'what-the-hell' and blast the fake aliens.

Wild times.

Five Observatations

 1. My wife's co-worker had a new washer arrive Thursday of last week....with a wi-fi connection.  I asked why.....neither the wife or her associate had a good explanation.

I just note...dryers....toasters and coffee-machines come this way now...making no sense..

2. Someone noted how much wealth has left California  in the past two years....saying it's in the $700-Billion range.

3. I generally believe that if you grew up in the 1960s/1970s....you could generally handle any stress/chaos.

4.  Tucker Carlson claims.....that Donald Trump has some kind of a “supernatural component” that puts people around him in a “dreamland.”

Alien-BS?  

5. What job would I hand de Santos as he exits Florida governor-job?  

House-Speaker is not required to be a House-elected member....I'd tell the House GOP to hire him up and give him that job for 2 years.