who else is up listening to Billy Ocean's "When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going" from the 20th Century Fox "The Jewel of the Nile" Motion Picture Soundtrack

can't stop wondering how many other kids in the usa have grown up in a haze of ancient river silt on dry days, two hundred years or more through half a dozen floods of it sunk down into every crack, drifting back out on the gentlest of breezes, filling their houses, schools, grocery stores, etc, etc

but bob ross marathon doesn't lead to special little packages showing up in the mailbox

not an initial read, but when i finally stopped checking out library ebooks of Hal Duncan's Vellum and Ink i somehow immediately ended ran into an ARC of the former and an ex libris of the latter it means nothing to almost everyone, but for me it was "uh how do i do reality testing??" levels of @_@

when i was a kid the state spent millions improving one little curvy section of a two lane state highway through the hills because it was cheaper than constantly shutting it down and handling hazmat cleanup due to half-full milk trucks tipping over

sorry this probably doesn't make any sense i'm not even high

what if the "big" bang was just the first of many tiny singularities breaking through into a new place for all the others to come hang out in if they want to and every one of their lightcones you're currently in defines the way this place and the stuff in it behaves at a party so big they all fit in

barely any of the money that goes to the government gets spent on anything that actually helps anyone here with less than hundreds of millions of dollars

it's hard for a lot of humans to comprehend the impact of a storm that's like 1200 km in diameter dumping meters worth of rain on every square meter of land it passes over for days at a time

in many areas hotels are on some of the few sites in the area (other than vast private estates) that aren't built on flood plains public schools, downtowns, hospitals, etc, so much of what communities actually need to exist already gets flooded every few decades, it's just going faster now