War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Fog and chilly here on California’s north coast this early Tuesday as the world stumbles on through the work week. Typical summer fare for the area, usually sunshine and a brisk afternoon wind to follow the fog. Yesterday, though, the script didn’t alter itself and stayed overcast and cool all day — weather weird. And…
Fog and quiet this way-early Monday on California’s north coast and modern life continues somewhat unabated. As the Napa Valley down south of us cleans itself up after a 6.0 earthquake yesterday morning — already estimated to have caused $1 billion in damages — there’s another forest fire to the east that could become another…
A way-ordinary, routine-acting morning-fog environment for here on California’s north coast, but just three/four hours south, Sunday came early with a bang for the graveyard shift: Erica Gregory, who was brewing coffee while working by herself at the 24-hour Shell gas station on Highway 29 in Vallejo, said items started to fly off the shelves…
Foggy and quiet this early Saturday on California’s north coast and the water war continues — it’s a conflict between us drinking H2O and not. The well-known and infamous drought has plagued the Western US for years, and in California the problem is going from bad to worse, to even worse still — and no…
Light fog and cool this early Monday on California’s north coast as we start another work week. And from this vantage point, Friday looks years away. Today is special — for me. This is my last full-work week as I’m retiring, and the liquor store I manage will have to continue running without me. My…
Deep-blanket fog, bordering on drizzle this Sunday morning on California’s north coast, but unlike a shitload of other places all over this anxiety-riddled, ridiculous world, in a little while we’ll get sunshine and warmth. Technically, the weather people term it ‘Partly cloudy,’ but in reality, it’s as good as it gets — a few clouds…
Quiet and still this early Friday on California’s north coast, with the normal patchy fog and a slighty-chilled breeze for our late summer — weather up here is really consistent, and if it’s not, it will be in just a second. And the weekend is near-about on top of us. The news cycle — beyond…
Foggy and chilly this early Thursday on California’s north coast as we wind-down the work week — seemingly, not fast enough, though. We closing in on the weekend, but at a snail’s pace. In a couple of weeks, I will ‘retire’ (“…do not think it means what you think it means.”) and what happens next…
The more the work, the better the result, as even the waste off marijuana, or ‘hemp,’ can produce more than a high — how about a energy boost? Via the BBC: They “cooked” cannabis bark into carbon nanosheets and built supercapacitors “on a par with or better than graphene” – the industry gold standard. Electric…
Last Friday 40 years ago, Dick Nixon quit. He babbled a few words, jumped on a helicopter after performing his standard idiot’s wave, and flew home to somewhere near the house his daddy built. I watched most of the episode, or at least the most-dramatic parts, on varied-sized television screens in the TV-repair department at…
