The Native Iowan

I am a bit shocked to realise its been a month since I have posted anything. Life has been busy, frenetic…

It’s hot out. Queensland, in her furnace mode… 36c/ 98f, a blazing hot sun, a constant breeze that dries and desiccates. Within the past week the property has gone from nice green to burnt brown.

Ive seen hotter, been in hotter weather, even worked in hotter weather. But this is not friendly at all.

It is indeed “inside where it’s cool” weather. The aircon is working well. As long as all family members refrain from tickling the controls, the system we have here is very good. It is a modern central-air system, with individual setting for each room. The flaw in the system is that the main “unit” is at the far end of a long house. If we were to open up all the vents and set all the fans, on the far side of the house, to high, there would be nothing coming out at the near-side of the system. So I set the temp at 23c/ 74f, set the fans at high, and set the rate of flow to each room accordingly… the far-side rooms get 30% flow and the big room at the end of the house gets 100%. And it works well. Enough cool for everyone, every room.

Until someone decides they want to reset it all.

Which is often.

There was, of course, a time before air conditioning when folks just lived with the heat, the humidity, the discomfort.

Not sure if we’re getting weaker, or smarter. Does getting smarter, making life easier, make us weaker?

Probably.

But digging the Panama Canal by hand made sense, then. Would it make sense now?

It’s about midday. A nice long list of UFC fights are on. 4 more hours of blood sports. Suits me!

The world at large is rather uninteresting right now. Nothing much really going on that is “different”, important, or even of comment… ???

The various elections have come and gone. Status quo has been re-established. The bovine minded herd that is the general populace appear to be docile, cooperative.

There is a lot of noise being made about various factions on the USofA who either support, threaten or rumour-monger violence. The Po-Boys, Do-Boys, Dumb-Boys, Anti-fascist-fascists, Fascist anti-fascists, Bury-Loving-Mothers, Burn-Loot-Murder, and many other organisations that promote, disseminate and create confusion all appear to be sitting in the warmth of their parent’s basements. Perhaps waiting for spring, and more paid mayhem and violence in the name of… What?

20:20 has been an amazing world. One where the status quo has been upset. In more ways than one.

Here in Australia, the boarders are opening up. The lock downs are supposedly ending.

Will there be more? Being a cynic I say “yes”, there will be more. When and if it suits the “managers”.

And the beat goes on.

Smiles

More later