Climate change - Taking Earth off Autopilot

The above title and map are from the SF Chronicle article https://www.sfchronicle.com/weather/article/earth-record-hottest-year-california-trend-18597077.php

 

As I look at the temperature map, I am still amazed at the mini ice age in the southwest USA. I always thought that the Salt Flat of Utah would be a good place to load up with water. I looked closer and realized that the Salt Flat are in the flood zone. See pic below. 

Picture is from here: https://www.sltrib.com/news/environment/2024/02/05/effort-regrow-utahs-vanishing-salt/

Then the weather avatar agreed with me. I get a thought impression to make the existing ice age bigger. As I looked at the map I see that Bisbee, AZ would be a good location.  Up north, I think that the Lava Beds National Monument would be a nice place to grow the mini ice age.  See the below pic. 

Two days later....

In the record,  I was pranked by two avatar Indian boys at the Lava Bed park.  They were trying to prank us at the park but we ended up scaring them instead. They finally got us back. Well done pranksters. The prank was to get me to mention them again and they won their bet. And to update their blog post. 

In the record, before I did the first post I added "updates" without thought. I have never done that before but it is a good ideal to have it there. When I added the "updates" they knew that I knew that the jig was up.

The new locations for the DM snow is Crater Lake and Huachuca Mountains. 

 

 

In the record, little did I know the southwest USA was in the middle of a megadrought. 

 

Update: 

2024 April 17 - redid map of new DM snow and in the record of the prank.

2024 March - 5% diary

It's a diary of my normal life, the 5%. Just posting my replies to the monthly newsletter questions between the family and cousins. Dragon comments are after, "in the record".

David --

The bittersweet meeting of perception and reality… Summer vacations away from the Bay Area. Summer vacation in Hawaii was hot and humid. Summer vacation in the St Louis area was hot and humid. Summer vacation in Switzerland was hot and humid. The reality I have come to experience is that the temperature and humidity in the Bay Area makes it a perfect place to live. Yes, I retired to be on permanent vacation in the Bay Area.

A mention about the walks to the playground that Mom used to supervise. To kill time as a kid on those walks, I would pick up some of the small bird feathers off the ground and put them loosely cupped in my hand. Then I would put my hand up to my mouth and pretend to cough and the feathers would go flying out just like that cough medicine commercial in the 1960s. Nah, commercials never influenced my life...LOL.

In the record, below is what I originally wrote but decide to only include the 5% life.

The bittersweet meeting of perception and reality… Well yeah, my clairvoyance and voice hearing. Normally, I don't talk about  this part of my life in the newsletter, but if Mom asks, she gets what she asked for. If folks are interested in my work with the avatars go to my blog here: https://www.thevoiceinsidemyhead-myavatar.com/2015/01/  The bittersweet meeting of perception and reality is how that voice hearing community has accepted me.

I remember the first voice hearing meeting I went to I brought a small white board and markers to help explain how the voice world works. As the meeting progressed, the only desire of the attendees was to get rid of their voices. I felt completely out of place because I was working with various voices, a.k.a. avatars, to help change our world. 

Another example, the voice hearing congress is doing an event on how the voices have caused trauma in the voice hearer's life. I submitted a proposal to discuss how to use the DEM, Dark Energy & Matter, that we have in and on us to fix the trauma without therapy. They were not having any of that. 

I remember going to a physics forum to help explain how gravity works because I can use my clairvoyance to see it. No go there.

Being the premium clairvoyant on Earth gets me nothing other than several hundred blog views a week from all around the world.  Mind you, not one comment. I continue on knowing one day I will have the bittersweet smile of saying, "I told you so."

Any new weather stories.  The two that I can think of are the vernal lake in Death Valley and the Trinity Lake watershed snow pack. Rare opportunity to kayak in Death Valley National Park

 

In the record, I asked the weather avatar if the vernal lake is going to be an annual event, and he said that it is a 50/50 chance. 

In the record, why is a large percentage of Earth's fresh water locked up at the poles. Perhaps it is time we had it back. 

In the record, I mentioned the Trinity watershed because it was not part of the original restoration by the weather avatars. They have now fixed it.

 

Both are covered in this YouTube video here and below:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3wbOqBTi_M 

 

The TimeBomb website is about California water issues from an engineer's perspective. Yeah, set the view speed to 1.5 to get through it.

And the snow pack is up with more snow to come. 

In the record, the weather avatar is still good their excellent work. 

Are you a snow person or do you like snow at a distance? I used to go to the snow all the time. But my two arthritic knees and left hip ended those fun times.

Pi Day March 14^th…what is your favorite pie? The pies that Sandy brings are good. The only pie that I used to like eating was a pecan pie. But due to the amount of sugar in pies, they have all gone to the wayside like ice cream. Yeah, I need to avoid that sugar in everything.

March 21^st…Common Courtesy Day - serves as a reminder of the behavior that keeps society from melting into a sea of madness. In addition, the day brings awareness to how crucial common courtesy is in our lives and provides examples to help us improve.  What is your favorite Common Courtesy? I like to bow with praying hands to thank someone. It's quick, direct, and avoids COVID touching.

Any special Easter stories or special meals or desserts? Yeah, the Easter egg hunting dog, Copper. So there we are in Sacto for Easter and we are all stuck inside because of the rain. So we take turns hiding the eggs inside and low and behold, Copper starts collecting eggs in his mouth as the others were also looking for eggs. Copper must have found a half dozen eggs that Easter and did not break any he found.

In the record, I usually let Ibol be me for Easter. She likes looking for eggs and all the fun games that come from being with the family. I decided to be Copper the dog. Yes, the dog. It is not odd that all of a sudden Copper was this fantastic egg hunting hound. 

In the record, there is a portal between here and the dog planet. Also, I am married to Princess Poodle of the Dog planet. Asking a favor from Copper the dog to be them for the day was just fine. 

 

The Olympics are coming up soon.  I guess the four new sports that they are adding could be exciting. The four new sports are Skateboarding, Surfing, Breaking, and Sport Climbing. I always like watching the Olympics.

Any special plans for Easter or trips?  I guess I will go up to Sacto for Easter weekend. Cya soon Mom, Mike, and Steve.

As always…how is your life going? Slow. Rain and more Rain. Sour grass (in my backyard) is blossoming.

 

The only project I did with Ben other than clean up after the rain was clean the machines, a.k.a. single purpose robots, and drains in the house. 

 

For the LG side washing machine, we drained the water and cleaned the filter. Then I popped in an Affresh tablet and set the washer on the clean setting to freshen up the washer. For the dishwasher, I put the Glisten bottle between the pegs and set the dishers on sanitize. For the oven, I took out the racks and I set it on the self clean. I vacuumed up the ash after it cooled. On all the drains, I cleaned out the black slime that builds up with a wire brush. The one you see pictured is used to clean out 1/2" drill holes in concrete.

So I did a "Dad" the other day and started to shout at the TV, but not about sports but about heavy towing. So why did I start watching the heavy tow truck stuff? I remember back in the old Fauland's house in the back room, Pat's hubby, Joe, talked about some of the difficult operations of moving a wreck. That piqued my interest, so I taped a few of the "Highway from Hell" series on the Weather channel. These folks are pros doing real time physics with large wrecks that weigh multiple tons. After watching a dozen of them, I thought, hey there is this other show called "Highway 401" about heavy tow trucks. After watching just one, I started to do the "Dad" talk to the TV. For example, "No, what are you doing?" or "Let gravity do the work" or "Tow it out the way it came in" or "Just flip it. Why are you lifting it." or "You need to watch the other show." It turns out these tow truck drivers have modern trucks with rotator booms. They think they can just lift everything up instead of using a tow line. On the show, they are causing their truck to almost tip over all the time. I remember in one episode, the operators were looking at the instruction chart embossed by the controls to figure out what to do. Really. It is a little late to be looking at the instructions when you are about to lift a wreck. So, I have a new direction in life. I want to be a heavy wrecker....LOL.

Hey everyone, be safe, stay dry, and Happy Easter.

 

 I also include fun facts in the family newsletter:

 

Origin of odd Berkeley motto is here.

 

  

 

Update: 

2024 March 15 - added Prince Poodle to the Easter story.

2024 January - 5% diary

It's a diary of my normal life, the 5%. Just posting my replies to the monthly newsletter questions between the family and cousins. Dragon comments are after, "in the record".

David --

So, how were your Holidays? I went to Sacto for Xmas. The food, presents, and fun was great. We played dominoes and peanuts. Meera did some violin playing for us on her new violin. I got a cheese slicer and vintage potato masher for gifts from my kids. These are excellent gifts. I am hard to shop for. If I get something that I can not store it in my 600 sq ft flat, it has to go. Otherwise, Xmas was excellent! See the pics and videos below.

New wire cheese slicer

Xmas dinner

Meera trying out new violin 1

Meera trying out new violin 2

Meera trying out new violin 3

Meera trying out new violin 4

Friends of mine did a Xmas garden light show in North Carolina. See playlist link below.

Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden light show

Did you watch any college football bowl games or NFL playoffs? No. I do watch folks who talk about football. I understand that there were several prominent coaches who retired. And there was a big controversy about Florida not being in a bowl game.

One thing I will admit about football is that everything seems tidy about it now. I would watch the games Dad watched and see all the players dirty with mud and grass stain. Now baseball is a dirty game. 

Are there other winter sports that you enjoy? The winter olympics.

When reflecting on the year 2023, what first comes to mind? What heat wave? It turns out that California, Nevada, and Utah dodged the warmest temperatures ever bullet. See map here: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/monitoring-content/sotc/global/map-percentile-mntp/map-percentile-mntp-202301-202312.png  I remember hearing on the news that those three states missed the warmest ever. So I looked it up on the NOAA site to verify it. See the attached blow up of the map for parts of CA in white. If you look at the NOAA surface temperature anomalies map here: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/monthly-report/global/202313 you see that CA entered a mini Ice age.  See pic where CA has blue.  

- In the record, it is amazing to see how Weather avatars can shape the world we live in. 

What made me happy? See all that Sierra snow and having Tulare lake back. Per the previous newsletter, it was an amazing site to see all that snow in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. See before and now pic

What are you most grateful for this year? That 2023 is over.

Conversely, there was much craziness in 2023. What could be done better in 2024? Electing an all Democratic Senate, House, and Prez. Perhaps something good may happen like another check from the government. The last check for $1.4K the gov gave me, I used to buy my new TV.

Any wisdom or advice to share? The GOP had a chance to impeach him twice and they blew it. If you don't want him for prez then throw the bum off the ticket. A thank you goes to Colorado and Maine for trying to do that. 

What TV shows and movies did you enjoy most in 2023? I watch the news,YouTube and anime. Nothing changed for me because the SAG strike did not affect voice actors. See pic.

Did you read any good books? I do read a science mag, but mostly I gave up reading.

Any big plans for 2024? Not really. Busy being a facilitator for support group meetings, secretary for the BAHVN, and doing projects around the house.

The sour grass is back. See pic. I will take another pic when the flowers bloom.

My desktop computer died and now I am on my son's laptop. My next project is to resurrect the Window 7 computer and put Window 10  on it. I miss the graphics card and the CPU is a 4th generation chip which can still take 10. Wish me luck on that adventure.

Everyone stay safe and enjoy the New Year.

2021 June - Dragon Diary

It is a diary of my daily experiences. If an event is important, it will have its own post... 

"We need to be ready for the age of DEM." Gwen

 

Overall: 

- My eye water more than normal, provided there is a normal.  And they sometimes hurt. 

- I am still working on fixing my leg for my new DE soul. There are four boxes I open to exam my body: physical, DEM, Boxman, DEM supplies. 

- I keep thinking where did the human race veer off from the DEM path. As far as I can tell, we, the human race, live in Eden. I continue to do experiments on my life to make Eden happen.

2nd - Fast asleep, up in the golden tower, my soul looked out across the lake and saw the distance mountain snow experiment. The weather avatar spoke to me. 

"What do you think?"

"Is that DM snow?"

"Yes it is. Soon we should be able to replicate it across the Sierra golem range."

"You know we are in a drought."

"Yes, but this will be a permanent fix."

In the record, for too long, Earth has been in auto pilot control which has been easily corrupted. It time the planet did what made sense for all the races. The pic is from here.

In the record, Mt Whitney was the location of the new DM snow. 

 

4th - I go outside to see a large flock of crows circle the house. In the record, the Crow Queen, her handmaidens, and the Raven Queen pay a visit.

 

6th - Had a snack and eat some leftover pizza, then I felt hungry and had to eat more.  So how is this different than taking two bites of an apple and filling full? In the record, the apple had DE energy, more Eden experiments to come.

8th - updated post: Why Blog? The Living Book & Post Deletions and Updates

- updated post: Ibol Story Arc 5: Gaia Form

- updated post: Ibol Story Arc 13: The First Words

 

10th - Maze link I am fast asleep in my bed, though I am on the massive warehouse of the Electronics shop. I weaved through 12 foot high shelves of PC boards of all shapes and sizes. I saw others examine the boards for ideals. I search to get to my location to view the work. At the work bench, the DEM tech showed me a board where the white life line light up as complete.  

I asked, "Will the DEM board work just like a physical board."

DEM tech, "It should. The lines work. It just not physical." 

In the record, Gwen's shop is busy making DEM machines for the avatar, dragon, golem and human races to use. 

13th - Double masked, I walked to the bank to deposit my checks.  Later that day I feel Covid ill. My only thought is that I am fully vaccinated and I sanitized my hand as I left the bank. In the record, I used the chronopointer to pinpoint the day. It light up on the 14th, which is a Monday and I went on a Sunday, the 13th. I start to wonder if I don't know how to use the chronopointer. I review the record with more detail. I get a lock sound for the 13th, though it still lights up on the 14th because the check clears on that day. 

In the record, the chronopointer has a DEM lock sound which I forgot about.

 

25th - I did a clairvoyant view of the Florida condo that collapsed. This will be it own post. 

29th - Trying to wake up at 9 a.m. to get stuff done, which means I go to bed by midnight.  Trying to get a schedule. LOL

Update: 

2021 July 19 - added link to condo, 13th, chronopointer.

2021 December 20 - grammar corrections

2022 November 3 - redid the intro for Iphones

2023 June 29 - reposted pics

2024 April 12 - Added Mt. Whitney