I'm going to start today to record on a daily basis whatever happens to strike my fancy. So, it is a very cool breezy day. I just posted 5 short book reviews to The Monthly Reading Challenge. I'm suppose to put away some winter wood today from the woodpile outside but I'm playing hookey from work to write so starting this blog will get done.
I'm having a daily fight with a flock of English Sparrows that are trying to take over my barn. They are making a terrible mess so they have to go. I have destroyed several nests so far they don't leave but they get out of the barn when I am around. I'm just starting the fight so I guess I don't know how far I have to go to discourage them.
I'm trying not to spread myself to thin on WDC because I find so many things that are interesting here and I am trying to work on a new story. I really enjoy sitting at my desk with a cup of tea and reading blogs on WDC.
I knew about Ceasar, but was surprised to find out how far back that dates goes when it comes to disasters. It's no wonder Shakespeare went for that date
March is a time of change or leading to change. At least in Montana and Kansas. Where I grew up, near to you, April was change. Same in Thailand and Costa Rica. Either winter calm giving way to storms or heat building until rains poured down. The Ides of April is the 13th.
Imho, a certain contemporary leader needs to be wary of the Ides.
I have so many mixed feelings about A.I.: at once horrified and awe-struck. I think it's a good tool to construct processes, plans, and maybe toward the very end of a writing process it's like a sterile pair of eyes. I want it to have as little to do with my creative process as possible. Honestly, it just feels...wrong.
I've explored interesting philosophical queries with it, including past-life regression. Those "conversations" are usually a ton of fun.
What role do humans play behind the steering whell, Lyn? I wasn't aware of that. Let us know if you can find the link, too, please!
I deeply fear for the youth. I teach adult students and when I assign them in-class projects, the majority of what they present is A.I. generated. It's obvious: word choices, turns of phrase, and...they're reading quite a bit off their screen monotonously, without deep acquisition. I use an A.I. detector and give 0's to work that is A.I.-made. You'd be surprised the % that still use it for their writing. It's troubling.
You are curator of a museum. This museum has an area of interest to you. Take us on a guided tour of your latest exhibition.
It's still snowing
Museum of 30-Day-Bloggers Travels
Step lively everyone. Don't trip on the steps. The rooms we visit have no order. My first room depicts a trip to Yellowstone National Park. In this room notice the tent. More modern camping gear was one of the discoveries I made when we took this trip.
I also met Blue Moon for the first time on this trip. We had an adventure with Scooby Doo on this trip. Together we learned a lot about blog camping. As you view the many pictures on the walls notice haw many different camp sites and hotels we managed to stay in. We saw everything Yellowstone had to offer. And learned the rules for safe camping.
Another room that is set up is a trip visiting many cities in Europe. We rode an imaginary airplane. As a group we tried varieties of foods every place we stayed. I visited the Louvre, in Paris and Oxford University Library in the United Kingdom. I soaked up the modernization of Germany and spent a day touring a Spanish Olive grove.
Stop in the room to your left bloggers. It will depict many of the restaurants and food varieties we have sampled on our journeys. We often finished each day as a group eating, dancing, or comparing notes of the daily sight seeing adventures.
The room directly across from the food variety room we have a room full of Photographs of bloggers departing and arriving from different destinations on a variety of convenient conveyances. We have traveled on river boats, cruise ships, aircraft of different kinds: planes, hot air balloons, bicycles, Segway, trains, and also rode the world's largest Ferris wheels and many different varieties of Roller-coaster.
As we walked along we visited rooms with the world's zoos depicted. Every country has a zoo. We walked miles looking at horticultural exhibits and wild animal exhibits.
I really had to separate the rooms about zoos and Gardens. Like zoos the countries of the world like to build and display fantastic gardens.
One room is especially my favorite. The room depicting Australia. We took time to write stories about our visit. we explored the aboriginal people, and the outback. We met different varieties, of animals and insects. I enjoyed my first zipline experience in Australia.
The room about our South America tours depicts the wild dog species that lives in South American cities, running loose on the streets and being fed by the people of the towns.
And yet another room depicts the music tour we took. Where we enjoyed performances in rap, country, and every variety of music you can name by famous musicians.
This is just a part of the experiences we have learned we can have, just sitting at home, using our computers. The experiences we enjoyed on these trips were real even if they were WIFI induced.
We visited on our computers but, we gained real and valuable knowledge about the world we live in.
We all have possessions of some type. Tell us five possessions you can’t live without, and why they are on this list.
I'm late again. But, I return with a flu shot and my eyes checked so that's more things done before winter. It snowed for about 5 minutes today. Near noon time.
Some possessions are a necessary in today's society. What we can't live without is food, clothing, and shelter.
I have to name my pets as part of the list. Except for Drifter they have all been with me for 15 to 20 years. I've taken in a lot of cast off animals of all ages over the years and I know they suffer if they lose a human they are attached too.
Communication wise a phone in my pocket is a good thing. If I had one earlier in life I might have saved myself a 35 mile walk in a sleet storm to reach my home.
There are lots of things I have I don't want to live without but, if I had to I could detach myself from many types of possessions. I have given this a lot of thought many times because of my age and social situation.
I was talking about this subject with an 81 year old widow this summer. We both agreed, at a certain age you just want to lighten the load.
I post this with trepidation since I received an email today when I returned to WDC that I have been removed from the 30-Day-Bloggers-group. If I'm really not suppose to be here I suppose I won't be.
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