2 days after traveling through a packed airport - I'm sick.

2 negative COVID tests yesterday.

Pounding some vitamins and going to bed.

David Brin: SEVERE GEOMAGNETIC STORM PREDICTED: The sun just launched another CME directly toward Earth, Maybe a severe G4-class storm when it arrives on Oct. 10th.

Getting dark and pretty in San Francisco.

Enjoy sunset in San Francisco tonight

@LSWellesley
If cooler heads prevail.
Doesn't look promising.

Just pissed off my brother in law.
First time in 23 years he expressed anger at me.
I was discussing the techniques of a soccer player that tricked the goalie (his daughter) and scored in a game 11 months ago.

He didn't take it well. Like, at all.

First family rift.

May be unrecoverable.

@LnzyHou
.... in an armored vehicle....

Ohhhhh booooy!
There heeeeeeeeaaarrrrr!

Enjoy a morning walk through San Francisco.

Just sent by my friend.
These two guys just love each other so much.

I missed this one:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DAbro4qzKYT/

Hard to tell, but there area lot of missiles or missile fragments hitting Israel right now.
#israel

Wow.
President Carter made it to 100 years old.
Oldest president ever.
And he's still doing more to improve humanity than Trump.

If you cannot tell a story to get your point across, you may not understand it well enough yourself.

And, a majority of the people you are trying to inform or convince will not understand anything you are saying unless it is in the format of a story.

I've now learned to eat this cheesy Smartfood popcorn with a wet paper towel and a dry paper towel on the table in front of me.

No more licking my fingers clean before I start using the keyboard.

This, my friends, is the benefit of years of experience.

The wife is facing down the biggest hurricane of 2024 (USA Today) in Atlanta. Expecting statewide blackouts. The big Sephoria event she was attending is probably going to be cancelled. And she only has open-toe shoes. She brings 10 shoes. All open-toe. Silly wife.

@th3j35t3r
Not always.
But none of them can think abstractly.
They don't get analogies.

They can sometimes be quite intelligent. But they do so without using abstract concepts. So, they are hamstrung to see things that many of us find obvious.

Every day I'm encountering people that cannot think abstractly.

If I don't provide a concrete example, they cannot answer the question.

And the latest one was an engineer generating reports.

I have been so clueless for so many years about humanity.

New improvements in the wildfire home-hardening project. I can now enter an address and this box defines approximately where the house is located.
Next: use photos to define the actual perimeter.

@danalan @TwiHusband
Agreed.
Yet there will be plenty of actors that will do so anyway. I suspect Russia is building a nefarious force of them right now.