Few more flowers of various colors in the garden. Some of the bulbs planted earlier this spring are blooming and beautiful! Expecting to have more opened up tomorrow. Daughter should be really happy!
The dozens of tomatoes appear to be turning into hundreds of tomatoes. All still green. Not gonna complain. They're developing nicely.
Battle of the squash bugs 2013 started yesterday. Since I only have a few pumpkin plants so far, it was easy to look over every leaf. Killed several adults and destroyed lots of eggs. Didn't see any more this morning but going to keep watch. They had almost killed off one large vine but I got to it in time and the vine seemed recovered this morning. There are about 5 pumpkins growing already. Not bad for June! Hope at least one is a giant.
Had some more setbacks on the new job. Nobody is getting the faxes yet because the company only sends them out 2-3 days before the scheduled review. Since I entered an arbitrary date of next Friday, no faxes sent yet. Most of the offices don't want to schedule reviews until they get the info. So, I changed the dates to Wed instead. Hopefully, they'll have the faxes by Monday afternoon, so I can start setting up schedules.
I finally got the bike registered yesterday. Unbelievable it took that much time and effort. Just glad I have it done. No more fears of getting pulled over. Really don't need a ticket. Even if it was dropped, too much hassle.
Saw an article today. Forbes magazine places New Mexico at the top of the list of "Death Spiral States". Mostly because for every 1 person working in the private sector, there are 1.53 people dependent in some way on the government. That would be either by a government job or some form of assistance. It's not going to change except for getting worse. It's in the culture. The attitudes are unrealistic. Archaic management methods that were bad techniques even 30 years ago. People talk about social norms which existed 400 years ago which they wish to maintain in 2013 and beyond. Poor work ethic. Lack of professionalism. Lack of concern for education. People who get an education depart the state right after graduating. And that's the short list.
As to the prediction I made yesterday, I tend to think it's going to go three directions. One is civil unrest spurred by racism. The second is major economic distress. The third is the worst, which is some form of disaster which takes down a huge portion of the power grid. This is going to happen soon. Within the next two years. Of course, that will affect water, communications, transportation, food supply and more. Think I'm going to start collecting canned food and batteries. Get a gun. Make the house more easily secured. Set up some form of water filtration system. I can modify the well to a manual system if and when I need to in one day.
The dozens of tomatoes appear to be turning into hundreds of tomatoes. All still green. Not gonna complain. They're developing nicely.
Battle of the squash bugs 2013 started yesterday. Since I only have a few pumpkin plants so far, it was easy to look over every leaf. Killed several adults and destroyed lots of eggs. Didn't see any more this morning but going to keep watch. They had almost killed off one large vine but I got to it in time and the vine seemed recovered this morning. There are about 5 pumpkins growing already. Not bad for June! Hope at least one is a giant.
Had some more setbacks on the new job. Nobody is getting the faxes yet because the company only sends them out 2-3 days before the scheduled review. Since I entered an arbitrary date of next Friday, no faxes sent yet. Most of the offices don't want to schedule reviews until they get the info. So, I changed the dates to Wed instead. Hopefully, they'll have the faxes by Monday afternoon, so I can start setting up schedules.
I finally got the bike registered yesterday. Unbelievable it took that much time and effort. Just glad I have it done. No more fears of getting pulled over. Really don't need a ticket. Even if it was dropped, too much hassle.
Saw an article today. Forbes magazine places New Mexico at the top of the list of "Death Spiral States". Mostly because for every 1 person working in the private sector, there are 1.53 people dependent in some way on the government. That would be either by a government job or some form of assistance. It's not going to change except for getting worse. It's in the culture. The attitudes are unrealistic. Archaic management methods that were bad techniques even 30 years ago. People talk about social norms which existed 400 years ago which they wish to maintain in 2013 and beyond. Poor work ethic. Lack of professionalism. Lack of concern for education. People who get an education depart the state right after graduating. And that's the short list.
As to the prediction I made yesterday, I tend to think it's going to go three directions. One is civil unrest spurred by racism. The second is major economic distress. The third is the worst, which is some form of disaster which takes down a huge portion of the power grid. This is going to happen soon. Within the next two years. Of course, that will affect water, communications, transportation, food supply and more. Think I'm going to start collecting canned food and batteries. Get a gun. Make the house more easily secured. Set up some form of water filtration system. I can modify the well to a manual system if and when I need to in one day.
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