Tuesday, August 28, 2012

A little test to assure you of?


Can you raed this? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can. I cdnuolt blveiee that I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd what I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in what oerdr the ltteres in a word are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is that the frsit and last ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can still raed it whotuit a pboerlm. This is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the word as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! If you can raed this forwrad it.
 
Short Neurological Test
1- Find the C below.. Please do not use any cursor help.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
2-If you already found the C,
now find the 6 below.
99999999999999999999999999999999
99999999999999999999999999999999
99999999999999999999999999999999
99999999999999999999999999999999
99999999999999969999999999999999
99999999999999999999999999999999
99999999999999999999999999999999
99999999999999999999999999999999
99999999999999999999999999999999
3- Now find the N below.
It's a little more difficult.
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
MMMMMNMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

This is NOT a joke. If you were able
to pass these 3 tests, you can cancel
your annual visit to your neurologist.
Your brain is great and you're far from
having a close relationship with
Alzheimer..

Monday, August 27, 2012

Vacation Time August 27 til ?

I will post from time to time but full time after November 1st. September and October are my favorite months until March, April and May.....

Friday, August 24, 2012

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Significant recession imminent if Congress doesn’t act on fiscal cliff: CBO report

The Nation would be plunged into a deep recession during the first half of next year if Congress fails to avert nearly $500 Billion in tax hikes and spending cuts set to hit in January, congressional budget analysts said Wednesday Washington Post 8/22/2012

I guess the Republican Party (of which the odds keep stacking up) will be ordering Pepto-Bismol by the truckload to stop the Diarrhea!

The Day After - How Times have Changed

The day after, It's 6am I woke up to a very recent recording by Joni Mitchell - a younger Joni Mitchell was "Vibrant, Released, Reckless Beautiful and Untamed." The last time I viewed her was in the movie about The Band - The Last Waltz.  From there she became lost in time and forgotten to the future. An album emerged in 2004. by Joni Mitchell, in it a current version of "Both Sides Now" - it's a beauty, by an older woman who didn't exactly age the way she started.  The Original Song, as recorded in 1970:



Joni Mitchell

"Bows and flows of angel hair
And Ice cream castles in the air
And feather canyons everywhere
I've looked at clouds that way

But now they only block the sun
They rain and snow on everyone
So many things I would have done
But Clouds got in my way..."

Now you can download the song as she sang it in an Album "Dreamland" "Both Sides Now" 2004 (Remastered) Quite the different Joni Mitchelll - and a feel of how she has "changed" in the years.


 Hit "Watch on YouTube"
Roberta Joan Anderson, song writer, artist born 1943

"...But Now it's just another show
You leave'em laughing when you go
And if you care, Don't let them know
Don't give yourself away"

... and yes, as I have completed 70 years myself,

"I've looked at life from both sides now
from up and down and still somehow
It's life's illusions I recall
I really don't know life at all"

...personally, I'm ready to move on from here - with a different
approach and calmness.

my suggestion to anyone who reads this note:

Don't ever miss the opportunity to Take a Left Turn, if it presents itself. 

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

August 21, 1942 - August 21, 2012
A benchmark day in my life
2012-08-21 13.59.30.jpg

50+ years ago, I sent flowers (roses) to a girl, who remembered and returned the gift today

Photo: Paul's birthday cake!

My Birthday Cake double triple chocolate with Chocolate Mousse layered filling, Made by Patsi Shandera, owner of Babycakes (208.841.2684) and a member of the Underground Wine Group - a party group I belong to - 12 members. 

Monday, August 20, 2012

My son Isaac related this very concept to me as I asked a question


The Quote:
"pursue not the outer entanglements, 
Dwell not in the inner void:
Be serene in the oneness of things,
And dualism vanishes by itself"
from "On Trust in the Heart"
by Seng-t'san (d.606) (Zen Master)

loosely interpreted by me as meaning
don't be surrounded by the many issues before you
focus on what you are doing and seeing
Don't look at what isn't there, look at what is there
"and dualism vanishes by itself"
Viola, living at the moment (by focusing)

Friday, August 17, 2012

is there ever enough of this kind of stuff - Bon Iver and Justin Vernon 24 minutes

Hit full screen..............................................................>^

More than 9 significant wildfires are burning throughout the state of Idaho in what could be the most dangerous and busy fire season in more than a decade.

Friday fire update: Heat and wind
Halstead Fire
Trinity Ridge Fire
Enclosure Fire
Springs Fire
Mustang Complex fires
Minidoka Complex Fire

These fires are mostly in Mountain areas, and near famous river systems, Salmon River, Payette River, Salmon Chalis  National Forest, Wilderness of Salmon, Idaho. This is "fire season" in Idaho only difference - most in the past 10 years, drought conditions, Winds - and neighboring states having their own big fires - means that fire fighters are in high demand and short supply

Boise has been clear of smoke for the past 2 days - result of NW winds - This weekend has been forecast for smoke once again lingering in Boise. 

 ..AN AIR QUALITY ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED BY THE IDAHO DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY... 

DUE TO HALSTEAD...MUSTANG AND TRINITY RIDGE FIRES...THE AIR QUALITY REMAINS UNHEALTHY IN CUSTER AND BLAINE COUNTIES OF IDAHO INCLUDING THE CITIES OF SUN VALLEY....STANLEY AND CHALLIS. THIS ADVISORY WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL AIR QUALITY HAS SIGNIFICANTLY MPROVED. 

THOSE INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE SENSITIVE TO INCREASED PARTICULATE ORSMOKE LEVELS ARE ENCOURAGED TO AVOID PROLONGED OR STRENUOUS OUTDOOR ACTIVITY. ALL OTHERS SHOULD LIMIT PROLONGED OR STRENUOUS OUTDOOR font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif;" />
ANOTHER STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED ABOUT 10 AM MDT SATURDAY UNLESS CONDITIONS IMPROVE AND THE ADVISORY IS NO LONGER NEEDED. 

Thursday, August 16, 2012

This is the week I become 70 - I have been examining my prospects through correspondence, with friends

Friend: "give me a real sense of just who you are today?"

MeWho am I today....a real sense of who am I today... Good question . I am probably the last person you want to ask. I could give you a list  of people to write and ask them . They would wonder why you should ask them .. What do they care?  I am like the little man behind the curtain managing all the levers .... The wizard of oz.. Making big banging banging noises full of grandiose gestures signifying nothing...I'm an act for sure...thinking I'm getting away with something while those around me are shaking their heads and laughing   a fool if you will who believes his act is working."


MeIn the previous note I sent a statement of diversion...is it just a great riddle to pretend I understand for one moment my own significance...as if there is any significance at all in my being? Little man of no significance at 70 years of age...who time has passed by...counting the hours like little bread crumbs in a row...hoping a sign will reach out acknowledging...life is still worth living and.....keep on keeping on...it will all make sense in the future ..or I should think "do I dare disturb the universe?"...the riddle continues...the answers are evasive...are we all literally living in a big "joke"of no consequence?


Me: (continuing) Have you been depressed reading my past two notes? Don't be....take a look in your own mirror.. Is it... what you see is what you get?,.. Or are you on your way out...hurrying to your next adventure...no time to ponder...of course that's the way to really live..keep busy and take lots of left turns... I live by taking left turns as many as i can.


Friend: Who you really are..........You are still the man of many moods and  insecurities, that require a different face for each image you wish to project. You are also a man who has grown deeply in the appreciation of all that Mother Nature has provided......the wonder of it all. Sleeping under a sky of a million stars can put in perspective the insignificance of one human being....and then sleeping in the arms of someone you love, and who loves you deeply, can put in perspective the IMPORTANCE OF ONE HUMAN BEING...I like the extremely intelligent man you are today.   I have wondered so many times what YOUR life was like while traveling from one place to another, working for different people, doing work, I assume, that was physically challenging to say the least.

I know you make friends easily, and am sure you did so at each stop along the way....but there must have been times of deep loneliness.

 I am still haunted at my imagined sight of you stopping your rig and releasing your horse into a unknown pasture....because he hurt you.

I have known this person for the past 54 years - it is the most cogent discussion between us - at least ... toward my direction. We have had previous discussions in that friend's direction.

Two things I love the most, good horses and beautiful women. and when I die I hope they tan this hide of mine and make it into a ladies riding saddle, so I can rest in peace between the two things I love the most


The influences in my life: 

Highland Park, Illinois 1942 - 1962
My Father
Jon - a friend
Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk 
William Guthrie - high school teacher
"The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock" - T.S. Elliot
Boston, Massachusetts 1962 -1969
Robert Sherburne - College Professor
Bob Dylan
LSD and other Hallucinogens 
Charlotteville, New York 1969 - 1996
Gail Peachin (expert at "Living in the moment")
Isaac and Lily Peachin (My Children)
Puccini's La Boheme
Mozart, Bach, Beethoven 
Sonny (Midnight Sun lineage) - my favorite horse
"The Road" (The Road Provides) 14 years 1996 - 2010
Will James, Sonny the Cow Horse
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Two psychoanalysts
The concept "Living without Design"
Loves gained - loves lost
La Nina Bonita - dog (Heeler)
Boise, Idaho 2010 -
Jackpot - dog (mostly Border Collie -trimmed)
"Whitewater" 
 a spiritualist/Accupuncturist
                                            La Grande Poussée

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

New weather patterns causing "change of life" conditions as in the following articles


Those living near Pine and Featherville are urged to attend another fire meeting today to discuss evacuation plans.



95 mi NE and up towards Sun Valley, ID - Many small fires are on steep sides of Mountains - very difficult to handle other than by Air Drops of gathered water out of rivers by Helicopters.


SUN VALLEY, ID
...AN AIR QUALITY ADVISORY FROM THE IDAHO DEPARTMENT OF 
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY REMAINS IN EFFECT... 

DUE TO THE HALSTEAD AND TRINITY RIDGE FIRES...THE AIR QUALITY REMAINS UNHEALTHY IN BLAINE COUNTY OF IDAHO INCLUDING THE CITIES OF SUN VALLEY AND HAILEY. THIS ADVISORY WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL 
AIR QUALITY HAS SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVED. 

THOSE INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE SENSITIVE TO INCREASED PARTICULATE OR SMOKE LEVELS ARE ENCOURAGED TO AVOID PROLONGED OR STRENUOUS OUTDOOR ACTIVITY. ALL OTHERS SHOULD LIMIT PROLONGED OR STRENUOUS OUTDOOR ACTIVITY. YOUR COOPERATION IS APPRECIATED. 

ANOTHER STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED ABOUT 10 AM MDT THURSDAY UNLESS CONDITIONS IMPROVE AND THE ADVISORY IS NO LONGER NEEDED. 

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE ACCESS THE DEPARTMENTS 
WEBSITE AT.../USE ALL LOWER CASE/... 
HTTP://WWW.DEQ.STATE.ID.US/
AIR/AQINDEX.CFM 

THIS STATEMENT IS ISSUED BY THE DEQ AIR QUALITY ANALYST...AIR QUALITY DIVISION...TWIN FALLS IDAHO. CONTACT AT 208 736 2190. 

Drought sends Mississippi into 'uncharted territory'

A year after near-historic flooding, the river’s water levels are at near-historic lows from Cairo, Ill., where the Ohio River empties into it, to New Orleans, just north of its endpoint at the Gulf of Mexico.

About $180 billion worth of goods move up and down the river on barges, 500 million tons of the basic ingredients for much of the U.S. economy, according to the American Waterways Operators, a trade group. It carries 60 percent of the nation’s grain, 22 percent of the oil and gas and 20 percent of the coal, according to American Waterways Operators. It would take 60 trailer trucks to carry the cargo in just one barge, 144 18-wheeler tankers to carry the oil and gas in one petroleum barge.
The low water levels mean that barge companies have to lighten their load by about 25 percent so the barges ride higher in the water, reducing what’s known as the barges’ “draught.”

Sun on glass blamed for fire south of Lewiston, Idaho


The Weissenfels Ridge Fire burned 5,000 acres along Snake River Road south of Asotin, Wash., and Lewiston last week — and believe it or not, it was ignited by the blazing sun hitting the bottom of a glass bottle. “I ruled out a lawn mower and fire pit as causes,” said Dan Hally of the Asotin County Sheriff’s Office.


Tuesday, August 14, 2012

10-year-old girl flying alone on United left stranded at Chicago airport

That's because when the 10-year-old landed on-time in Chicago, according to the letter, no one showed up to help her make her transfer flight. Phoebe reportedly asked United attendants in Chicago three times to use a phone to call her parents, but she was told to wait and missed her connection.

A United spokesperson told NBC News on Tuesday that they have reached out to the Klebahns to apologize, and the airline is redepositing the miles used to purchase the ticket into Perry Klebahn's frequent flier account. The airline is also refunding the $99 unaccompanied minor charge.

Why is United Airlines still flying - they have been documented as the most irresponsible Airline in the Industry.  Irresponsible to their passangers.  

Sunday, August 12, 2012


Click to show "Groucho marx" result 11

"I'm going NY for an award, then playing Carnegie Hall, and off to Paris to accept a medal. I'd give it all up for one erection"-Groucho at 80

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Untitled by peachin
Untitled, a photo by peachin on Flickr.
Stroller was the last horse I had.  He was with me from 2004 through 2007 - he now lives somewhere in Utah. 2006 8500 feet above sea level - top of a mountain above Little Elden Springs Horse Camp, Coconono National forest, Flagstaff, AZ One of Arizona's 2 best trail systems.

Monday, August 6, 2012

As I have grown older, I've learned that pleasing everybody is impossible, but pissing everyone off is a piece of cake!

Your friends will give you the benefit of the doubt - and will forgive you
Your enemies, no matter what,. will still think you are an asshole, even if you specifically praise them.

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