Well? It is summer.

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It's 76 and change in here.  With the fan going it actually feels cool.  It is 63 and change outside, or according to the oftenwrong thermometer.  Just not going to check the other one.  A final blood test before I crash indicates 160.  All I have had is tea.  Oh well.  I guess it will just do what it does until it does what it should.  I have even quit the gum.  That, for whatever reason, had become ocd... almost literally.  I wasn't sure I'd be able to quit.  I would like to keep some around, for occasional use.  I am simply not sure I can do that.  I will give it a go in a few days.  Driven to chew like...  I don't know.  Oh, it is coming up on a year since I quit tobacco.  I don't think there is any connection, save a potentially funny sort of crossover without any real ties.

I need to get to town again soon.  I did find some of the specialty items on Amazon, if I believe those are being sold at a hefty premium.  If there is something very exacting, and rare, I might use Amazon from time to time.  I just won't, anymore, pay that premium if I can do otherwise.  Even if I am paying, pretty much, the same local... it's in hand right now.  Buying local is a fiction, mostly, anymore.  There are a few privately owned local shops, but I am no more enamored of them than I am of Amazon or even regional chains.  Who knows who really owns anything.  And truly locally owned both have to, and want to, overprice.  Just as it's always been.  No real good way out of that large/small local/global dilemma without going back to American made.  Which... will carry a premium.  All bad?  No.  All good?  No.  Choices, though, I suppose.

I keep thinking about politics.  I really don't trust Trump.  He is a New York City denizen, with all that means.  He, honestly, doesn't care.  If it doesn't cost him or inconvenience him he won't concern himself with it.  Large city folk will step over a corpse and go about their business.  They will ignore immorality all around them and just go about their day.  They won't involve themselves in a crime, to avoid being another target though just as much to avoid having to be a witness.  On the other hand is Hillary.  Though Republicans did attempt to put someone else up, as McCain and Romney before those.  No!  As with the economic policies, choices are limited.  It looks like the Republican party has been taken to the shed and the Democrat party has chosen status quo.

I probably won't vote.  Politics can't fix what is wrong.  And I haven't seen a politician who will actually do what is right in my life.  I've seen a few lean more one way than the other.  If I were to vote for Trump, it would be in hope that he would actually be American first, as politicians used to be.  I'm not even sure that is possible today.  Too much has changed.  Probably just a promise for the older set... ie the ones who usually vote.  I just don't actually see it.  Even if he could get jobs to return, the economy at local, state, federal, and international levels, are broken.  If manufacturing returns it will be automated.  Then again, who am I kidding.  The jobs that have existed for the last fifty years, quite often, were just created jobs... which stretched the economy to create... paper pushers.  Even at Fortune 500 companies, in academia, at plants and businesses everywhere, believe it or not.  That era is ending, has ended really.

What is next?  That is a very good question.  Some believe that elites think most of us are expendable, and will work to that end.  Academics, to include medical, seem to agree.  That is not a good combination.  Though politics, and with it the military, offer similar risks... more so if that goes to automation.  As I have suggested, if the elites attempt it, it really most likely will not turn out as they believe.  Giants to many kingdoms and empires have wrestled to slay the world at times.  And, should by some foul way they succeed?  They will regret it much more quickly and terribly than they can imagine.

I am surprised I am still here.  For the most part this really isn't my concern.  Just... thinking out loud.  Later.  Or, more, good night... or day.  I'll sleep, you... do your stuff.  Good day.