A bit of an overcast this dark and chilled Monday on California’s north coast as no matter how hard I tried, this is Monday again.
Start of another work week, which although appears from this vantage point as long and torturous, but will seemingly pass like the quick-snap of slender, feminine  fingers — Friday on my mind!

Shaving just now, I could see Monday morning all over my ancient face — an insomniac, I never get enough sleep, and it reflects in my worn-out looks, especially my swollen, puffed-sunken eyes.
Lack of sleep — why I looked look like shit all the time, and appear ‘weary’ even after a cup of way-strong coffee and a bottle of Yerba mate.

(Illustration: Picasso’s ‘The Acrobat,’ found here).

Via HuffPost and Dr. Sherrif F. Ibrahim, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Dermatology at the University of Rochester Medical Center: “Usually when people are up late, if they’re doing something, they’re usually drinking or partying or crying, and that is more of a contributor to why their eyes might be puffier.”
I don’t drink anymore — been nearly 20 years — and I live alone, hence, no socializing, so what’s the problem?

Tears for fears — tunes from the big chair out in the hallway, and the cat-crazy life of the nowadays.
Despite all the science, and all the news about the science, climate change is still ho-hum in the US — a new Gallup poll pitches the numbers:

Just 34 percent of adults said they worried “a great deal” about “global warming,” about the same as last year.
Meanwhile, 35 percent said they felt the same way about “climate change,” just a 2 percentage points more than last year.
“A major challenge facing scientists and organizations that view global warming as a major threat to humanity is that average citizens express so little concern about the issue,” Gallup said.
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“Many climate change activists have attempted to raise awareness in recent years, as evidenced by the recent U.N. report,” Gallup said.
“But the data at the national level show that none of this has changed Americans’ worry about the issue in any lasting way.”
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Americans’ greatest environmental worry was pollution of drinking water, the poll found, followed by contamination of soil and water by toxic waste, water pollution, air pollution, extinction of plants and animals and loss of tropical rain forests.
“This shows that environmental concerns are – understandably – quite personal,” Gallup said, “and that worries are highest when issues have a direct effect on daily lives.”

And that IPCC report mentioned above was a head-turner, but apparently lacked a personal effect on Americans, despite horrible weather-related shit happening all over the place. The UN document was baby-fed verbiage — go easy on the masses. And allows for all-night crying.
Like George Monbiot at the Guardian and the lax understanding of the horror a-coming:

Insurers working out their liability when a disaster has occurred use a process they call loss adjustment.
It could describe what all of us who love this world are going through, as we begin to recognise that governments, the media and most businesses have no intention of seeking to avert the coming tragedies.
We are being told to accept the world of wounds; to live with the disappearance, envisaged in the new climate report, of coral reefs and summer sea ice, of most glaciers and perhaps some rainforests, of rivers and wetlands and the species which, like many people, will be unable to adapt.
As the scale of the loss to which we must adjust becomes clearer, grief and anger are sometimes overwhelming.
You find yourself, as I have done in this column, lashing out at the entire town.

Or get prepared, like these people — this past weekend’s third annual National Preppers and Survivalists Expo held in Tulsa, Okla., and the aim to fight the risk of a changing world.
From the New York Times:

“We tried to gear our event this year to the ordinary person who wants to be ready for any situation,” said Ray McCreary, who organized the conference for the trade show company Expo Inc. Applicable situations, Mr. McCreary said, could include anything from an EF5 tornado to an economic collapse.
Ever since Isaiah, someone somewhere has been talking about the imminent demise of civilized society.
Still, one could argue that today’s connected world of globalized supply chains and multinational banks is especially susceptible to a catastrophic failure.
This is not the exclusive opinion of the fringe groups of society: Just last month, a study financed by NASA found that, because of financial inequality and environmental problems, the industrial world could suffer “a precipitous collapse” within decades.
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“I definitely expected more tin hats,” said Mike Vogt, president of the Staying Home Corporation, which produces tornado- and bulletproof safe rooms marketed as Hide-Away shelters.
“I guess I’m proud that our product tends to appeal to both sides of the aisle.”
The exposition seemed to be less about politics than consumer economics and was, if anything, an exercise in modern-day capitalism.
Apparently, there are endless ways to commodify catastrophe.
There were tactical knives ($135), mass casualty bags ($250), solar-powered generators ($4,299), thermal rifle scopes ($5,500), reusable hand warmers ($5), automated defibrillators ($695), gravity-fed water filters ($150) and vacuum-sealed packs of alligator jerky ($15).
“Who’s going to drop 50 grand on a self-heating greenhouse?” said Josh Holleb, who was selling just such an item for a company called Ceres Greenhouse Solutions, based in Colorado.
“Preppers will. They think the world’s coming to an end. They’re the ones who finally pull the trigger on a sale.”

Jack/Josh the trigger has already been pulled. I just need to get some freakin’ beauty sleep first.
Who wants to face such shit looking like shit?

(Illustration out front found here).