Sunday, May 16, 2021

Coincidence

 

Hi Natty!  How are you today?  I hope you are well, and everything is easy for you.  It's Sunday, and busy as usual.  I cleaned my mother's bedroom in the morning, then I had leftovers for lunch.  The Internet cut out 20 minutes into Mary Unknown7's set today.  If it had been a hack then it was a lame one, because the Internet was back up and running 20 minutes later.  16 hours earlier, Israel blew up a building that housed some global media organizations.  Note that the target was neither Hamas nor Palestine.  The target deserves part of the blame in this case.  If they were to pool all their resources into one spot during a war, of course it would become a military target.  It was a lame hack, though.  Perhaps the media would learn to spread out their base over a larger area.  This is the Internet age, one could run a media center out of an outhouse if need be.

I spent the evening breaking down the tree that had fallen alongside my grandfather's old house.  It has been raining a lot lately, so I had to cover all my skin with clothing and wear a hat because the air was thick with mosquitoes.  The dangerous type too, the black and white mosquitoes.  Please remember this mosquito, Natty.  It is extremely dangerous.

The mosquitoes were overwhelming me, so I had to start a fire somehow to get some smoke happening.  Good thing the tree was rotted out, that the rain didn't have much effect on it and I was able to burn it up.  I discovered the cause of death of the tree: termites.  The crown was enormous, and all I could do was snap off bits and pieces of it to throw into the fire.  I managed to clear out a lot of the smaller branches today.  It was a blessing that the tree fell perfectly parallel to the old house without killing anything, not even another plant.  It was a blessing, not a coincidence.