Just A Thought

 Visiting the state of Delaware and feeling the difference in the climate and seeing all the holiday sweaters and so forth while shopping with Mom, reminds me very much that I have northern blood through and through.  There is plenty that I like about where I live but the subtropical climate is not home to me. 🙁 Thanks a lot to all the greedy financial corporations and people operating them who caused other people’s lives to be totally upended following all the mess that they created back in 2008.  My family was very fortunate through the pandemic though so I shouldn’t complain.  And we were already used to being separated from all of our extended family members, so this was no big change or new hardship for us.  I won’t ever really feel that I am not out of place as a southerner though. 

 No matter how much a person loves young children, it is the kind of thing that we are eventually quite happy to let the next generation take over. 😁

 I’m trying to go through all my thought entries to fix mistakes and make improvements, and good grief, it is taking me forever! 😧 And I’m sure that if I started all over again, I would still find things that I would want to fix and improve, so I am not going to do that. 

No matter who we are or what we do in our lives, if we are capable of small acts of kindness, then we are capable of making a positive difference in our world.  Small acts of kindness can have a domino effect and play an important part in transforming the world that we all live in.  There is no such thing as kindness toward others that is too small to matter. 

 If people want to be critical and judgmental of others they can find any reason in the world.  I know this isn’t a new idea but it is so true.  Love is the opposite.  Love is about cherishing and valuing everyone for being exactly who they are.  Love is about wanting to be helpful and supportive and a friend and advocate for others.  It could really change the world if this was what people all received from each other and wanted to give to each other.  Human beings are human though so we can’t exist without making mistakes.  What we can do though is just do our best to have the right attitudes.  Our best attributes can only spread and instill the same feelings in others.  I think it is wise for us all to remember that what we spread around is an influence on the world that we ourselves must live in.  We can contribute to making our world a better or worse place.  And yes, we are all still human but this doesn’t have to prevent us from continuing to try our best to show kindness and be

 I haven’t watched any reality TV shows in a long time and for the most part I really don’t care for them, particularly bachelor or bachelorette shows where the possible matches for the bachelor or bachelorette are eliminated by them, one by one.  My mother feels the same way about bachelor/bachelorette programs, but there is one airing now that she couldn’t resist watching because the bachelor is a 72 year old man.  It is called the “The Golden Bachelor”.  I watched the episode, with her, where he is down to 3 women and he goes to their homes and meets their closest family members.  At the end of the show he was supposed to eliminate one woman, but he was really upset by this and couldn’t do it, so the episode was left to be continued next week.  Watching just this one show from this series, it reaffirmed for me that these shows are terrible and they should stop making them.  They are just setting people up to have difficult and painful emotional experiences for viewer entertainment.

 I’m traveling to Delaware today.  Ya gotta love airport prices.  😧 With a soda, my breakfast/lunch was over $18. A man who was checking out at the same time as me was shocked when a bag of nuts that he was purchasing was also $18 something.  The prices were hidden on the back of things so they couldn’t be seen as they were displayed.  Gee, I wonder why? 🤨

 Sometimes lately, I get these insights about our human lives having reoccurring themes. At least this seems to be the case for myself.  It is like our lives are stories with plot themes that reoccur and I suppose are connected to who we are. I suppose this makes sense because we are always the same person throughout our lives so our lives are bound to be a reoccurring manifestation of who we are.  This is an awareness that is not always there and can slip in and out of our perception. Sometimes the themes can be silly.  I realized that one of mine is cake even though I am not a pastry chef or cake baker. LOL  I know I was thinking of some other life theme of mine last night, but I have already forgotten what it was.  I swear I am not crazy.  I just need to figure it out more and record what the heck I am talking about.

  MASTERING CHATGPT | FROM ZERO TO HERO https://chatgptricks.notion.site/MASTERING-CHATGPT-FROM-ZERO-TO-HERO-24c1ee5e34ba49ceb83632d4149043dd I learned about this through an Instagram account that I follow.  It’s really hard to not be curious about things like this.  I am too curious of a person to just ignore or pay little heed to the fact that there is now such a thing as artificial intelligence that can converse with us, answer questions, and provide us with information in such an amazing, thorough, and surprisingly intelligent way.  It is amazing not only in regard to what it can produce, but also for its’ capability to reply so rapidly.

  We are getting our first cold, or rather cool, front this fall.  It is currently 56° here.  I love when we have weather like this here and it feels more seasonal!  Having temperatures in the 50s is a rare treat.  Unfortunately, it never lasts very long.  At least this year the kids will be able to dress up for Halloween and not be hot.  I don’t like bitter cold, but I do love the cooler seasons.  Maybe someday I will be the opposite of a winter Texan and head north for colder weather.  🧊❄️🧊 We do have deer here but not snow.  It supposedly snows once every 100 years here.  It has happened once since I have been living in Texas but of course it didn’t last and melted very quickly.  I used my phones microphone to write this post. 😁

I just figured out today that a microphone is part of my iPhones keyboard.  Before today, I thought that I could only use a microphone if it was a feature of an app or site.  It’s not rocket science, but it took me forever to figure this out.  🫨  Now if I am very unsure of a word’s spelling and I am not even close enough to be given a suggestion, I just use the microphone instead of having to open a new page to look it up.  I guess there are just too many things to figure out in life these days to not miss stuff. 😧

 Pink.  He was the man.  He was pink.  He was clever and cool.  What more could a girl want in a cartoon character? 💕🩷 Pink Panther was always my choice when I was allowed to get a t-shirt with a heat pressed decal in the gift shops in Provincetown a.k.a. Ptown MA.  Province Town harbor is were the pilgrims first landed.  

 I’m sure most people by now have had the experience of having a conversation with someone within the vicinity of their cell phones, and then shortly thereafter seeing advertisements on social media for something that they had talked about.  I had one experience that I will never forget a few years back.  I had been in my garage by myself, and I was organizing stuff that I have stored there and I was also organizing books on my book shelves. (Yes, my bookshelves are in the garage.) At one point, I came across some old issues from a magazine called Reminisce.  I of course got distracted and started looking at them.  Later on, when I was back in the house, I was logged onto my Facebook account, and there was an advertisement for Reminisce magazine!  This really surprised me because I had been alone in my garage, and I had only looked at my magazines and I hadn’t done any search for the magazines online.  I seriously thought it must be a coincidence until I was later told that it was not.

 I found my decorating motivation last night and today even though I will soon have to swap everything out for the next holidays.  I’m told that my Halloween witch that I thought was cute, is creepy.  She’s staying.  Halloween is supposed to be filled with things that are creepy and tasty.  I wonder if anyone will notice my added Dollar Tree decoration with Nerds candy in it?

My thought for myself on intuition.  Don’t blow it off because it often has helpful messages.  A way of identifying an intuition is that it is a thought or feeling that we suddenly receive, and feel that we should trust or believe without any other information or explanation being required.

  One of these days my family will think that I have gone off the deep end, but at that point what will it matter anyway? 😂 For some reason I started thinking, last night, about a program that I once watched on television.    I don’t know how my thoughts led me to this, but anyway, here I am.    I don’t remember the whole program, but in the show, which was about real life stories, there was an auction that was going to take place and one of the things that was going to be auctioned off was a supposedly genuine fossilized piece of dinosaur poop a.k.a. coprolite.  Now I am not a fossil or dinosaur expert, but if a genuine fossilized piece of dinosaur poop was available to be auctioned off, that would be a remarkable thing.    When the poop was put up for bidding though, there was far less interest than I would have expected.    So the burning questions are: Was the dinosaur poop fossil genuine?    I don’t remember who the dino poop expert was that certified it as genuine.  Why was ther

  This has happened twice now.  My daughter wants to go to Starbucks and then when we pull up to get her order, the person at the window asks me if I want something that was accidentally made or not picked up that will just have to be thrown away.  Tonight it is iced mocha coffee. 😂 I think I’m going to be up late tonight.

 Reality is like a fabric where many many fibers are woven together to create an existing cloth.  We all have many fibers that are incorporated into the fabric of the reality of which we are a part.  Unlike physical fabrics, though, the weaving of reality is an ongoing and ever changing thing, almost as though it were a living tissue that can transform itself for better and for worse.  We should all seek to be healthy tissue so our fibers, for as long as they last, can contribute to the weaving of a strong, beautiful and comfortable cloth of reality. I did not get that from any artificial intelligence “natural language processing”.  However much sense it does or doesn’t make, I thought of it myself using my own fabricated thinking.  Ha ha, fabric. But wasn’t I just saying and thinking that I thought that higher powers can have a hand in the design of my, or our, human stories and perceptions and that they can inject a sense of humor also?  Maybe they do want to help save us human being

 The thought just occurred to me that it is quite ironic that the real life version of Captain James T. Kirk, a.k.a. William Shatner, seemed to really not enjoy the experience of being in space. 🤭 Telephones lead me to think about this but I don’t recall how I got from A to B.  Oh, now I remember.  I was thinking about how a person could hypothetically only stuff a limited amount of papers or photos or whatnot into an old fashioned telephone but this isn’t the case with 21st century phones because stuff turned into data does not require a lot of physical space.  There was an Android known as Data on Star Trek: The Next Generation.  How cute. 😄  My first smart phone was an Android which was a silly choice, not that there is anything wrong with the notion of android per se.  Thinking about physical space and information data led me to thinking about outer space and Data and Captain Kirk and William Shatner in space. #spacethefinalfrontier I just remembered a line from the movie “Hidden

  Misplacing things seems to be my claim to fame recently.  I was just searching through a bunch of random notebooks, note pads and papers looking for something, and then I remembered that I had moved and saved what I was looking for onto notes on my phone.  Leave it to the 21st Century for a person to be able to misplace things from the physical world into their telephone.  😂