Now, you may be wondering what that photo could possibly have to do with a vaccine, and I will get to that.
But the reason I have already gotten my two doses is that I am a private security officer, and therefore an essential worker. I got my shots at the Del Mar horse track, of all places. It is also where they do the county fair every year.
So they have all these weird buildings that are used as stables and storage most of the year, and then they fill them with all kinds of things for the few weeks of the fair.
But this vaccine distribution might just be the most efficient human endeavor I have ever been a part of.
I didn’t even have to get out of my car.
I wish everything people did worked as smoothly as this did.
Well, I tried to post some audio from my podcast and WordPress wouldn’t work with me. Let’s see if this video with music track, from me still learning to fly my first drone in my mom’s backyard in the Bay Area works…
Hey, this is America. You are absolutely free to believe whatever you want to believe. That being said, an opinion is not the same thing as a fact. You can have an opinion and it can be wrong, no matter how much you want it to be true.
In this series, we will discuss some issues that people have strongly-held beliefs on, and try to determine which of these beliefs are wishful thinking and which are actual facts.
I know this series will upset some people. Thinking that I suck is a perfectly valid opinion to have. That doesn’t automatically mean that I suck. I mean, I’m not saying you are wrong, just that it is your opinion, but might not be a fact.
Let’s start off with a simple one.
Dinosaurs never existed at the same time as any version of mankind that walked upright. That is an actual fact. People never rode around on dinosaurs. They didn’t have pet dinosaurs. But dinosaurs were real. All those bones of dinosaurs in museums are not a hoax.
I can understand how a literal interpretation of the bible makes this hard to accept. I fully support your freedom to think the Earth is much younger than it is. I support your desire to fit dinosaur bones into whatever timeline you choose, or rationalize them into any form of thought that makes you feel comfortable.
You can have any opinion on dinosaurs that makes you feel happy.
The rest of us are stuck with those stupid old facts.
Okay, here it is, the final part of my first drone flight, the Christmas before last, with my first drone… the cheap one… with Jason, my son-in-law helping me. Notice I am still wearing the one-piece plaid Christmas jammies I just got… with the cool stripey hood.
Once again, the Garage Band music makes up for the horrible video quality. That, and the smile on my face.
Last weekend, my wife surprised our younger daughter Mollie and her boyfriend Ben by taking them down to the Bahia Hotel for a staycation. I couldn’t stay the night, I was working, but I joined them for breakfast on Saturday.
The Bahia has a small pool out front where they take care of two rescue seals… both of which are blind.
But they are so cute!
Wait, I think they are seals… but maybe they are sealions… or not. I think those are bigger. I should know this.
Whichever, you gotta love them.
One of them got hold of a feeder buoy, put the metal weight on her tummy, and chewed on the rope.
Oh, good times.
It was a little overcast when I got down to the bay, but it cleared up later.
The Pacific Ocean is right behind those building over there.
I know, it looks like the Mississippi River, but we have paddle wheelers in Southern California too.
The Confederacy, fighting for slavery, ripping the country apart, and then losing.
Nazis, fighting for slavery and mass murder, ripping the world apart, and then losing.
Donald tRump, standing for all kinds of horrible things, ripping the country apart, causing a still unknown number of deaths by his poor handling of the virus, and then losing.
What is it that makes these causes draw people to them? They all had one thing in common. They were led and made up of white men who wanted things to go their way. Has it occurred to you, and I say this as a white male, that if you keep pushing too hard, the rest of the world might just decide to stop putting up with your nonsense, and trust me, world wide, you are not a majority. You do not want to force everybody else to lower themselves to your level of violence and hatred. I don’t care how many guns you have squirreled away in your basement. Put down the Confederate flags, the Nazi banners, and the MAGA hats, get yourself some pot, and just chill out.
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