Too hot inside.  My neighbors solution?  Just move all the furniture outside.

     I’ve never trusted ASB brakes.  I call them Anti-Stop Breaks.  For the masses I think they are the right thing because the masses instinct is to push the brake pedal through the floor and lock up all four tires and slide until the car either runs out of momentum or crashes, often the latter.  I’ve had skid pad training, and not only do I know how to find the spot just on the edge of losing traction and adjust to maintain it, for me it is the natural reaction.  Personally, I think instead of ABS breaks everyone should be required to undergo this training.  All that said, I have a deep distrust in the things and that distrust in part probably comes from having worked with computers for more than 35 years. Computers crash, cars crash, put them together and you have crash^2. Seems like a bad idea.

     I just woke out of a dream where my car would not allow me to apply the brakes when going backward.  In the dream, I went backwards for several miles without killing anyone or running into anything and ran out of momentum somehow ending up on a public walkway in the Seattle Centre.  (I spelled “centre” the British way because otherwise this stupid British English spell checker in Firefox bitches).

     After finally coming to a stop, I got out of my car and walked about fifty foot away from it.  This was about all the time it took for Seattle Center to have it towed.  They told me it was at a lot a couple of blocks away.  I walked to that lot, they told me they didn’t have my car.  I walked back to the center, the guy told me he had told his brother to have it towed, so God only knows where my car is.  At that point I decided to call the police and report it stolen.  This is the point where I woke up, if you can call my current state awake.

     It’s hot in the house and it’s keeping me awake when I really need to sleep.  I’m all hot and sticky and it’s hard to sleep that way.  No A/C here, rarely necessary in the Pacific Northwet.

    I’ve been working on a major re-write of Eskimo North’s website.  Owing to the size and complexity of our site and services, this has been a slow tedious task.  But when it’s finished, most of the content will be in WordPress which will make it much easier to update in the future.  Given the rapid pace of technological change, this is really necessary.  I am forced to spend my summer slaving over a hot workstation.

Today’s Bible verses as chosen by Our Daily Bread…

Matthew 14:22-33 King James Version (KJV)

     Peter was obviously okay with taking risks.  Me too but for all the wrong reasons. I can’t seem to find courage when the right reasons come round.

     When I was a kid, for a while I had a regular week-end routine which consisted of going to Northgate Theatre for 50 cent movies on Saturdays, then going to Greenlake to swim (back in those days the city used to actually run water through it and milfoil hadn’t made it’s way up here so it wasn’t nearly as green as it is today.  Myself and a friend shared this routine.  One of the things we used to do is run towards the lake as fast as we could and see how far we could get on the surface of the water before sinking.  I didn’t know this Bible stuff back then, it just seemed like a fun thing to do.

     Just got through with a frustrating argument with a Yale trained individual who is still spouting old scientific dogma in spite of both anecdotal, theoretical, and solid experimental evidence to the contrary of his opinion.

     The old saying, “science advances one death at a time”, unfortunately has more than a little truth to it.

     I think if we really understood the whole truth about the nature of reality, we would have a whole different perspective.  Reality is in a constant state of becoming and what it becomes is influenced by our thoughts and beliefs. Stagnant, static unchangeable dead beliefs tend to lead towards a static unchangeable dead reality.

     As another old saying goes, “If you can’t change your mind, are you sure you really have one?”  It doesn’t take a mind to recite old dead data, any recording device can do that.

     Saw San Andreas at the Cinnabar on $6 Tuesdays.  Wasn’t worth it.  And I’m a big fan of bad sci-fi B-movies.

Genesis 3:14-19  King James Version (KJV)

14 And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

     Eariler today I was talking to a friend who was a former customer many many years ago.  She had suffered from anxiety for some time finally to discover her thyroid level was way too high.  She made the statement of how she had suffered needlessly all this time.  I pointed out that although we don’t always understand the reason, there is a reason for our suffering.

     God didn’t have to allow Satan to tempt us, didn’t have to create a plan for our salvation, didn’t have to allow us to have free will, but without free will, real love wouldn’t be possible.

     We suffer, and Jesus most of all, for the sake of love.

     These verses are those chosen by Our Daily Bread today.  It is an appropriate set of verses for me today in a way which I will explain below.

     I find myself making a transition both in my personal life, having recently ended my term of community custody and entering into a new set of freedoms, and with my business having recently added consulting and web authoring services.

     Like Joshua and his people following him, I am facing a time of much uncertainty and the only thing I can know with certainty is that God is with me, even as he was during my time in solitary confinement in prison.