For what it is worth, what posts you see here are being written and posted on my iPad. #

I am about to disembark for a roadtrip to visit my mother in the Upper Peninsula. I am not enthusiastic about the trip but I need to see my mom. Going to be a hermit most of the time.#

Just timed a video segment on YouTube, and got three minutes between commercials. Given that all commercials are an effort to manipulate the viewer in to doing something (buying a product) we live in a world dripping in world of external subconscious manipulation. Marketing and economics are running amok and the capitalists are fighting for fewer and fewer constraints so that they can make more and more money. #