It is a diary of my daily experiences. If an event is important, it will have its own post...
Hi Everyone, The blog is about my adventures in the avatar world that surrounds us. Hopefully, there are take away for you in reading the blog. Enjoy! David Alan Bartholomew Phillip Hallsted
Friday, May 2, 2025
2025 April - Dragon Diary
2025 April - 5% diary
David--April Fool’s Day…did you ever do any tricks on that day, any age? Let's talk about April Fool life jokes. Since November 5th, that mad King has done April fools on our democracy. Everyday it is yet another bizarre proclamation from that wanna be autocrat. We still have 3.5 years to go with that crazed man. Another April fool's life joke is fire harden house changes. Climate change is making a change to the forest of the Berkeley hills. See picture from Marin Circle. That city is doing hardcore mandates on the people of the hill to harden 5' perimeter around the house. I know I am doing hardscape around the house but it is now 5'. And all those trees will have to go. Too bad.
In your day dreams is there any state or city that you would like to move to and what makes that place a fond wish for you? I rather like the climate of Northern California's Bay Area. Not moving anytime soon.
What made you smile today or this week or month? Climate change! Give me a minute to explain. You see, I like projects and fire hardening the house is a bunch of house projects. Projects like replacing wood railings with metal. Covering the cedar soffit and fascia with cement Hardie boards. Rerouting the fiber optic cable inside the house wall because we need to reduce the vent grids to 1/8" square mesh. Replace the roof with a metal one so we can mount the solar panels on the metal roof ridges. Replacing the redwood fence with something nonburnable? Yeah for projects!
Is there an age you reached or looking forward to that made you think differently about that point? You know, I sort of mindlessly meander through life doing the next thing without much thought. I went to UC Santa Cruz because? I dropped out and went back home to help us move up North? I went and stayed with my AZ relative to do what? I later came back to Walnut Creek to go to a junior college to get a Machinist/Welder certification, and stayed to get my pre-engineering classes? I went to UC Davis and got my Mechanical/ Material Science degree, but decided to dumpster dive and train for triathlons. Then Rick offered me a job out of the blue and I took it. I got married and raised kids, got divorced and I now live in the basement of my previous wife Susan. But now I have reached where I want to be. I am a high level clairvoyant who can see 100% of our universe. See link for the 100%, https://home.web.cern.ch/science/physics/dark-matter. But in a world of 5 percenters, it gets you nothing, though It still makes me happy knowing how everything works.
Any special plans for Easter? Going to Mom's to cook a green bean-onion with bacon. Here is a funny story regarding my side dish of stir fried green beans, onion, with bacon, GOB. We are all sitting at the Xmas dinner table and Meera asked me to pass her the GOB side dish. I looked at her holding the dish and said, "What is the password?" She stared at me wondering what my silly Uncle was up to now. Then I stated, "Bacon!". We both cracked up laughing. But the bacon makes the dish.