G'day Earl, Happy Birthday ! Congratulations, on yet another Trip around the Sun...; every year they appear To go by ever faster... Probably because as Toddlers, at 2 years old then one year is Half a lifetime. Whereas now, a year is but 1.8% of the time you've been alive...(!). I'm 62, so it's only 1.6% for me... And I've been feeling like a Zombie for the past 18 months - which is 2.4% of my lifetime ; since I being alive involved feeling normal..., or enjoying eating...(!). I bought that road registered electric Motocross Bike, btw ; and the Solar System to charge it is in the pipeline & I've got 47 minutes logged on the eChainsaw, 1 hr : 27 min on the eBrushcutter, the eLeafblower has yet to arrive - and my existing Solar Electric Pyramid is already able to recharge about an hour's operation on either, per sunny day, as well as running my Lights & Phone-Chargers. And the Drought might be getting worse, but on the one hand my son is now the local Group Officer who gets called in to be helicoptered off for an hr & a half to survey the Fireground on Friday evening - before being Divisional Commander with 5 RAFT Teams, a dozen Firetrucks, 3 Helitacks & a "Twin-engined 4-bladed Huey" mounting a $2 million Camera with Infra-Red overlay on Night Vision Telephoto, which can generate a Road-Grid over the Image displayed to this Hillbilly's offspring..., as all the City-based Commanders ask him to fix their latest out of control Burn... On the other hand, I threw another $14,000 at my Fireplan...; it's grown from $250 in 1998, which was enough till 2018, when I spent $10,000 in a year..., It took $1,000 to rectify Frost Damage in 2020 and 2022, So now I've invested $25,000 in Firehouses & technology to allow me to deploy 280 litres per Minute, for 4 hours, to put 1 inch onto 1/2 an Acre ; with Equipment & Water already insitu (!). But in the Gripping Hand, Global Warming is WINNING. And the rest of the 8 Billion are behaving More Psychopathologically, Every day which goes by... I dunno about you, But I think Mad Max & M.M.-2 Were pretty outstandingly accurate Sociological forecasts and Trend-extrapolations... Because I'm definitely living in the Mad Max Quiet, before the Storm. Or Firestorm.... Or Sudden Sea-Level Rise.... Even if the Worriers are somehow Restrained from Declaring that a (sacred) State of Waaauuhhhh(!) Exists, which duly (Duty Foolie) Requires them all to nuke their most FRIGHTENING personal paranoid Enemy-Fantasies (any me..., Any Me..., ANY ME...?) Y'see... All For the sake of their National Honour, and In order to try to make themSELVES FEEL Better, about their own Inherited Hopeless Predicament, heading into a very Bleak Future indeed. Fossil-burning Industrial Capitalists, Workers, and Consumers Appear to be About to receive Our Comeuppance. Big bloody time, too (!). Such is life, Have a good one... Stay safe. ;-p Ciao !
Amazing, presents and pie! It sounds like you got some good friends nearby. It's great to see ya again Earl, I remember that advice for young people video too, I like the message to be self-reliant, especially when you're young and starting to grow your foundation for when you're 55 Every once in a while i'll throw on an older Bikemessenger7 video talking about life lessons while sippin' on a 40, great stuff! Great throw backs, Happy birthday!!!
