FarFarAway

There was this guy at work that would pee on the floor instead of in the toilet, at a frequency of maybe once or twice a week. Never would own up to it and made everyone else clean it up.

He must have gotten his jollys from it, was on too many rx drugs to notice, or had some malicious intent going on.

Never found out who it was, everytime I had a hunch the guy would quit or get fired and it kept up. Thank God I started working from home. Ugh

There was a ledge at school about 4 foot off the ground and maybe 2 foot wide that the kids would walk on to be cool. The classrooms had these windows that you had to crank open and they swung from hinges at the top, so the opened into a kind of lean to shape. Those were about 5 foot above the ledge.

Sooo...After school, i was running back to the band hall to grab my clarinet before my parents came to pick me up...on the ledge...looking down so i didnt fal...not realizing the window was open...and wham, right into the side edge of the window.

Hit my forehead, thank God I didn't fall of the ledge as well. I got 4 stitches and had to hold my head together anytime I laughed or smiled for 3 weeks...

God, I felt dumb.

I definitely believe climate change will transform our existence, but im still torn to what extent. Mostly, because I believe in our ability to create technology.

I think that if we continue on our current path, (Nothing at all changes. We still try to live in cities and grow food in the soil, and depend on rivers and lakes) we will become extinct. Eventually, this earth will not support us as is. Maybe If we come up with some large scale carbon capture system, like tomorrow, we can maintain some semblance of normalcy latter down the road.

We will have to find innovative ways to take shelter from the outside elements, grow our food indoors, and make water from...something. The question is, how innovative will we be? Will we come up with some sort of biodome or terraforming technology. We can manipulate indoor spaces to grow large amounts of food now, but will we create all the components and nutrients without our current industrialized processes. Will we create a water extraction solution that will seem akin to alchemy at worst, or at best find new ways of seeking water deep within our earth. Or maybe we'll just figure out how to really utilize that pesky fusion reactor, finally build the damn enterprise, and hop ship to another planet.

No matter what, I think that the human population will take a hit. Even with innovation, there's no way we will sustain everyone currently inhabiting this planet. I think our population size will be determined by what we can invent. Eventually, if we don't invent the right tools, we will go extinct when the climate gets to its furthest extreme.

Maybe the climate will swing back around, or maybe the planet will turn into a ball of dust, but that will be so far in the future, it's silly to think about now. For now, honestly, I just keep picturing a world kind of like in those Myst books from the 90s...

Buffy and The Magicians.

They lured people into spending money on getting awards. Now they are not only removing the award system, but going back and retroactively removing awards that have already been given out, effectively taking peoples money and not providing the service that the money paid for.

I read somewhere that we are going to set up solar panels in space convert the electcity to radio radios, beam it to earth, then convert it back to electricty.

To anyone that wasn't Nikola tesla, that just sounds insane.