Observant morning

Big billowy cumulo nimbus on the edge of a flawless sky. The weather this week has been gorgeous.

Any time I sit in the tub for more than a half hour, some new observations about the water dynamics are bound to happen.

Water dynamics in three dimensions always fascinate me. They are teaching me something about the universe.

Thoughts about Haiti

Rick and Kathy Adams were here from 2:45 to 5:45 today. We learned a bunch about Haiti and their motivations, details of the trip, a pump system on their UF water filter, etc.

The general wisdom among agencies that help poor countries is to make hardware out of the most local and easy to fix materials as possible. In Rick's experience, they don't even fix a broken chain or rod. Even the simple manual pumps often fail and don't get fixed.
I'm thinking it might work better to use reliable high tech devices and have a trained local person who can replace modules.    For example: Replace the manual pump that seems like too much work and fails a lot with a solar panel and a standard submersible well pump.

They paid $15,000 for just the hardware for that manual pump and a four stage UF filter. With the electric pump it seems that about $5k could do it with the advantage that it takes little manual labor and it could be submersed in a well or river.

Magnetism

Brian Ahern is a LENR physicist. He thinks it is all about magnetics. Science has barely scratched the surface and really does not know what magnetism is.
I am feeling a sense of opportunity, perhaps insight. How can we use scale analogies; comparing magnetic scale to human scale, nation scale, planck scale?

Focus

Lately it has been difficult to focus. I hate to think that my brain is fading, but that it what it is feeling like. This morning I realized that I don't journal anymore. That energy has been absorbed by facebook.
Journaling provided an anchor and an outlet. It helped me think and focus.
(This is mostly a duplicate post because I thought I lost the previous one.)

Ability to focus

It has been very hard to focus this summer. I hate to think that my brain is fading, but that is what it feels like. Lying in bed, I started realizing that the personal journal was a major missing link in my ability to focus. Another major influence is facebook. With any luck I will be paying much less attention to facebook and more to personal writing.

Resuming the journal habit

For decades I faithfully kept a logbook with me at all times. It recorded important details of every conversation, every business call, to do lists, promises and understandings. During non business times it recorded thoughts, theories, philosophies and dreams. It was quite the asset. Our basement has a shelf full of these journals.

When computers got good enough, I fell out of the habit of writing on paper. Computers weren't yet quite good enough to be worth carrying all the time; and they had so many easy distractions; and I no longer actually ran the details of my business. All this contributed to me falling out of the habit of writing.

The early years of this journal became the replacement. It was read by family and friends so it became more public. Rather than writing for myself I was writing for an audience. I left out the highly technical and very personal bits. Eventually I started writing some of the personal bits in another blog under another name.

Facebook came along and the audience there was much more interesting and interactive. The blogging faded and facebook absorbed that energy.

Now I realize that I really need the personal journal. My typing is better than it used to be and my handwriting is worse, so the journal will be here. There is little or no audience, so this will be written for me. It will be more personal, more technical and more boring to the average person.

My Journal is reborn.