WELL FUCK!!!

If you can see the date on this blog, you will know that Donald (FUCKING) Trump was elected to be the 45^th president of the United States yesterday.

 

There have been bad presidents, ineffective presidents, Republican presidents and Democratic presidents before. Oh, there have been a lot of good presidents as well. There is a cycle to rule that will tend to go back and forth from conservative thinking to liberal thinking. Something like water swirling round and round the drain. I suspect that someday, someone will devise a formula to calculate these swings, but until then we just have to go through the motions and take what is given us.

The people of the US have picked what is probably the worst kind of president. He appealed to the basest parts of human nature…successfully. If there is any question about how much the education system has deteriorated in the US, it was answered last night.

I have no idea how Trumps election will affect the rest of the world in general and Canada in particular. It would be nice if the Canadian dollar went up for a while so that I can buy US dollars at par for a future vacation. He promised that an oil pipeline will go ahead and I suppose that is good for the oil industry which is good for Alberta and Canada. Bad for humans of course, but humans can be replaced, you just have to engineer a blackout and twenty years later you have a bumper crop of new workers.

 

I doubt that I will feel any ripples in my life at all. It is pretty much a secluded, sheltered pool where not much happens out of the ordinary. My income shouldn’t change and my needs are simple. There will be an influx of disgruntled American citizens looking for sanctuary and sanity over the next few years, but they should blend in nicely.

Status Quo.

If you want a silver lining, the late night talk show hosts should have an inexhaustible supply of presidential material for the next four years and Alec Baldwin will have a near permanent job playing Trump on Saturday Night Live.

It should be an interesting four years.

That’s Enough Work For Now

I was watching a video on Youtube today of traditional Hawaiian fishponds. They built walls of stone in the ocean that was under water at high tide and at low tide the stone wall would keep fish inside. It was a relatively simple matter to harvest the trapped fish with a net. Pretty smart and very effective.

 

I have been thinking about making a net for a number of years now. I don’t have an ocean with a low stone wall out of my back door. More is the pity. I don’t even like fish very much unless it is battered and deep fried, served with a bucket of French fries. However, I think that net making would be a pretty useful skill if our society collapses and I need to trade knowledge for food.

 

I also have a ball hanging from the rafters in the garage that lets us know when the car is parked in the correct position which would benefit from being in a net. Right now it just has a rope with an eye hook, but Hurricane and Tornado make short work of it when I let them play in the garage. I think a net would take the pounding and still be useful for parking the cars. If I could make a large enough net, the sweet peas would have a cool place to climb next summer. I could make a net to hold all of the various balls that I have accumulated over the years. I should probably toss them out as they no longer hold air.

 

Even though I have lots of reusable bags and baskets for grocery shopping, I have an image in my mind of European ladies coming from the market with a net bag filled with fresh produce. I could be one of those European ladies! I could make a hammock, not right away of course, but eventually. It would be light enough that I could take it to Hawaii with me and stretch it between two palm trees over looking some Hawaiians using a traditional fishpond.

 

Well, now I have managed to come full circle without any effort what-so-ever. That’s enough work for now.