A Weekend of Love…Mostly

Posted on February 17, 2025 by Patric

When it comes to love and romance at my advanced age, you need to temper your expectations, with healthy doses of reality. However, every once in a while, you actually hit one out of the park, and you find out what is really important in your relationship. And, even after being together almost non-stop, for almost 45 years, you realize that continuing to evolve is the only way to success.

I am proud of myself. I did so well for Valentine’s Day weekend…right until I didn’t.

But, the “didn’t” part had little to do with things within my control (unless you count my inability to simply NOT WATCH THE NEWS, when I am trying to have a romantic weekend}. It’s a challenge. But in the end, love prevails.

Maybe you can learn from our weekend of “keeping it fresh” in the relationship department, while savoring the things that bonded us in the first place. And also learning that “No News” really can be “Good News,” when you are trying to get through this life.

But, let’s start with my admitting a bit of abject shame, that fueled my plans for Valentine’s Day.

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Seeing the AI World Through Two Sets of Eyes

Posted on February 14, 2025 by Patric


It’s Friday- which means it’s time to lighten up a bit, if that is at all possible these days. But, I’m also writing this on Valentine’s Day, which in my case, is marked by the 44th anniversary of my proposing to my wife. Which also means, I have to keep this relatively short, so I can finish doing the things that will allow me to have a 45th anniversary, and not be sent off to live in a van down by the river.

But today, I’m going to divert away from politics, romance, and all things related to Donny and his Co-POTUS-Elon, to talk about some of my experimentations with the new, highly touted, AI glasses from Ray-Ban and Meta. In short, I will sell my soul to the future, to see what the hype is all about.
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The Solutions are Somewhere In the Middle

Posted on February 12, 2025 by Patric

Only a week into posting again regularly, and I’m already changing course.  I originally intended to offer up “plans of action” on Wednesdays (aka Hump Day).  But, after talking with some who have far differing opinions on how they see the world, I am changing course, and going back to trying to see things from BOTH sides, in hopes of reaching some sort of compromise.  In other words, finding solutions “Somewhere In The Middle.”

This requires some very challenging conversations, as well as watching leading news stories from different sources and networks, in order to try and distill at least a modicum of the truth. It takes work.

But this week, the President held a press conference to go over the intention of DOGE, and what we might hope to accomplish with the recent inundation of Executive Orders, Deep-Server Pilferage and Court-Challenged DOGE Actions.

And then…just to make it seem more relatable…Musk brought his kid along to the party.

What transpired was truly remarkable, and weirdly relatable to anyone with kids or grandkids. Or at least took a little of the pain away from an otherwise painful effort to find compromise.
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Who is REALLY Making the Policies? Not the Strawman!

Posted on February 10, 2025 by Patric

Holyfreakinshirt!  It’s Monday! And what a week/weekend it was!

By definition, a “Straw Man,” is:
1. an intentionally misrepresented proposition that is set up because it is easier to defeat than an opponent’s real argument.
2. A person regarded as having no substance or integrity. “a photogenic straw man gets inserted into office, while advisers dictate policy”

When you take a look at the kinds of policies and executive orders that are being put into place, a clear and obvious conclusion comes about, as to who is REALLY behind each of them.

Let’s start with the fact that Donny is waaaaay beyond being photogenically attractive. But, give him a break…he’s damn near 80 years old! Of COURSE he looks like a grandpa trying his best to hang with the real “hep cats and groovy chicks!”  But, he is absolutely, undeniably, a master at getting attention. He is the PERFECT STRAW MAN!

However, along with his aging body, comes an aging, rotting brain, that on it’s best day produces word salad, on a wide variety of topics; most of which are completely useless as they pertain to governance and solutions to the problems facing our country and the free world.

He leaves that to his henchman. All of these guys have their own very specific agendas, and are more than happy to work BEHIND the scenes (mostly behind in Elon’s case), while Donny keeps the cameras, and the attention on stuff that just doesn’t really matter.

Let’s break down who does what, and how you can recognize the motivation behind their actions.
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