I wish I could say it made me smoother, but it seems more like rubbing me raw. We solved our washer problem, settling for a smaller and older used model that is far better designed than the one that died over the weekend. We settled on this particular model after checking all the outlets and discussing their payment plans, etc. Because interest rates are so low, no one finances any more. There’s more money in cutesy plans to charge all kinds of fees like a short-term “lease-to-buy” or insisting you have to first get their credit card with the higher consumer credit rates. We bought something older and easier to repair.
It required borrowing a trailer to haul it. This piece of equipment we attached to rear of our vehicle just barely qualifies for the term “trailer.” It trails behind and carries stuff, but beggars can’t be choosers. So once I had it attached to my Jeep, I decided today would be a good day to clear out the last batch of firewood I had cut for my brother during cooler weather. He hadn’t needed it for a while, so it piled up until it was simply too hot out for cutting and the chiggers and ticks became a threat. When I stopped, I had quite a large pile. The load of wood was about as much as the poor trailer could bear, but it made the long trip across town.
Today was not just a washing machine shopping day but grocery day, too. Yeah, I’m a little tired.
Another tooth on the grinding rasp to dull our senses: Apparently governments have been contracting for malware that affects all major smartphones. Some big-name security researchers discovered this thing, but no word yet on whether they will be developing their dutiful counter for the malware. This is the stuff Snowden should have told us about.
I’m not the first guy to suggest that Greenwald has been carefully dribbling out the most shocking, yet most harmless, secrets he could dig out of Snowden’s documents. What we have seen so far is woefully obsolete already, but creates just enough hysteria to keep Greenwald employed and in the public eye for a very long time.
Meanwhile, if you really wanted to know what’s going on in places like Iraq, you simply cannot trust the news, and sometimes not even the popular alternative news sources. Sometimes it works best to speak to someone who actually lives in Iraq.
You know, things are seldom what they seem.
