Cruelty as Ideology

                       What I can't "get my head around" is tump + his fellow Neo-Nazis 'raw HATRED of Jews that somehow gets "suspended" when netanyahu tells the World that he intends to annex the West Bank--- a concept {CON cept} which trump seeks to support .   I don't get it .   "It" doesn't make any Sense unless one views his strategy as a March that brings with it, Chaos, Destruction and Cruelest Violence that can be conceived by a human Mind .   We're back at it -  Cruelty as Ideology . 

"What the fuck is the Plan, Stan" ?????

                       It's just so fucking INTERESTING, that the Holiest, most Sacred Land on the Planet is actually "Hell On Earth" .   In the midst of Hostage Release I wanna know WHO iz-gonna ARREST Netanyahu for his WAR CRIMES .   Next, I wannna-know if the UN iz-gonna have ANY Participation in the Defense of Gaza AGAINST the Israeli >>INVASION<< of  the West Bank .  Indeed, who is to form an appropriately representative Government that can help determine the trajectory of    [[[Palestinian]]] Recovery ????    When you listen to the BYG* and Planetary SUPER-BRAINS they have NO >Regard< for Palestinian Self-Sovereignty and insist that fellow Islamists ---other Arab Nations--- MUST {{{somehow}}}  "take Control" over the effected and AFFECTED Territories .   Shouldn't the UN be at least PARTIALLY >>>> Important <<<<< ?   

"Catch-22"

                       There's a "case to be made" that offers a "stance" or "position" that will Aid in the maintenance of the Status Quo by the {decadent} Bourgeoisie and it is only PARTIALLY antagonistic to one's own 'self-esteem' .   It's outta* Catch-22 by my Hero, Joseph Heller :   "It" can be short-typed* with , "When in Rome, do as the Romans " .   I'm too lazy to look up page + chapter , but it's the scene where Nately {I THINK it's Nately} who interrogates an old OLDE man about his convictions regarding first the Nazi "take-over" and then the American's.   Nately seeks to chide this old man into saying that America is / was "The Greatest Nation On Earth" .   The old man retorts :   "When the Nazi's were in Power I was FANATICALLY Nazi, now that the Americans are here, I am FANATICALLY American ."  Nately scoffs at such "garbage" and insists that "America FIRST" is "the way to go" .  The old OLDE Man then 'beats on' Nately :  "How long will America last ? ... a hundred years ~~~ two" ??  He continues, "ALL Empires have fallen and the American Empire will fall too ."   

"Ya can't fix STUPID"

                       Thing is, wood* ANYONE sacrifice their FAMILY for "The Good of the Nation" ???    I-GOTTA "Go" with, "No fucking way" .   The Bourgeois State, the Administration of the Status Quo, is NOT "inclined" for ANY "rough housing" WHATSOEVER , [what] they want is "Easy" "Like a Sunday Morning" .   But ya know what Qidz ?  They are just being >>normal<< for who wood sacrifice their family for a "Just" and "Noble" Cause ???   "We the People" WANT >>to  BELIEVE that the Congress is partially composed of Men and Women >>>of HONOR<<< yet to do so reveals a HORRENDOUS Naivety that borders on ABSOLUTE Stupidity .   I repeat , the Manifestations of Virtues and Virtuous Conduct will NOT "put bread on the table" and to "Stand Against" the Incoming TSUNAMI is to expose oneself and one's family to CERTAIN >>>>>>>>>>> DEATH .   I mean shit, I don't like it, but as Bruce Hornsby and the Range put it :  "That's Just The Way It is".

Cowards all, and to the last

                Half the time "About Writing" is to keep my Mind Clear .   This morning I feel Anger, Resentment and Bitterness because the democraps , don't know "How To Fight" and steadfastly refuse to learn .   You'd think that after getting your face slapped and your balls kicked like a ZILLION times, you'd wanna LEARN "How To Fight" even if it's for nothing other than SELF-Protection --- but no oh No .   I resent the Congress folks who hide their COWARDICE within the words of propagandal Rhetoric .  OBVIOUSLY they "Talk-the-Talk" but refuse to "Walk-the-Walk" [into Combat] .   They are PATHETIC .

Image-Nation

                       Imagination did NOT help me to answer, "HOW do you make steak from hamburg" meaning :   HOW do you "get" trumpists to "come to their senses" and disavow Trumpism ????  BELIEVE me I have taken EXCRUCIATING pains to locate even ONE answer .   Nothin' .....

               So now ya-gotta realize that Imagination is NOT  >omnipresent< { I like to pronounce this as om-nip-pre-sent } --- that somehow there is [perhaps] something that obstructs its movement .    {I don't know about your, but when I TRY to WILL Imagination into my Reality I, most often, come-up* with Emptiness and NOT the "good kind" neither .  Effort without Results is GALLING  as I'm CERTAIN you gyze* know .   

                 Here's a Cosmic Absolute :   YOU AIN'T-GONNA MAKE STEAK FROM HAMBURG !!!

                 If you look, what is to be found that can supplant Imagination ?????  

"Get 'The Man' Off Your Back"

                       I  KNOW  It's  be   FUCKED-UP   if   Diabolicism*  had,  as  one  of  its  components,,   -> Imagination --- but how can it NOT ?   In  >general-speaking Psyche< there is this : "Ya-gotta 'Think outside the box' " :::  where 'box' is the Status Quo and for "m,m, my Generation" the Latin was supplanted by "System";;  and my fav  ---> "The Man" .   

               One of our Pet Beliefs was [that] "You HAD-TO 'Get the Man' off your back."  "Thinking outside the box" meant     QUESTIONING AUTHORITY    on ALL its 'Levels'  --- indeed "Question Authority" was a popular 'bumper-sticker' .   

               I mean 'it' this way :   Were there "answers" to the Box's Problems, and, if so, were they INSIDE or OUTSIDE the 'Box' ???    Since we weren't about to Trust ANYONE "over 30" you can see that the general flow of agreement was toward  Answers OUTSIDE the Box .   Those were the Days of Civil Unrest due to Racism and {of course} Vietnam .   

Indecent Suppose-al

                        Ya tread into a {fucking} quagmire when you 'connect' Imagination with Delusion .   Somehow, Delusion NEEDS Imagination so that it can fully manifest within one's Psyche .   Here it is were the Democraps* HAD NO CLUE of what Jose and Juanita REALLY >>>Needed<<< to FEEL "good" about voting "Blue" .   When G.I. Joe and G.I. Barbie made it to human corporeality* they were NOT   >Receptive< to the Blue Wake, the exact opposite actually .   Once they heard about these supposed VIOLATIONS of Democratic Exotericism*,,, {all that Ideational PROPAGANDA} they IGNORED the THREAT they did not and COOD not Perceive .   Patriotism appeared to them as just more bullshit .  

          I know this, bc I KNOW This . 

The Art of Scam

                       I scared the "FUCK" out of myself yesterday while watching that JOKE they tagged as a "Conviction"------it HIT me that I may DIE while trump is in office :   a CONVICTED FELON as potus -a something that  was UN-IMAGINABLE and IN-CONCEIVABLE as well .    Ya-gotta-figure that the Founding Beer Swillers also COULD NOT HAVE IMAGINED A TIME WHEN A CONVICTED FELON COULD ASCEND TO THE HIGHEST OFFICE  ON THE PLANET .

               I mean shit, is there ANY Human Mind that cood* conceive of such a BLASPHEMIC* CATASTROPHE ???? !!!!!!!   ...doubt it .

               I contend that this very lack (poor choice) of Imagination is ONE of the Causes of Democracy FAILURE,  and I also argue that 'lack-of-Imagination' is a Manifestation of Status Quo GRAVITY, in that Creative Energies CAN'T "escape" and as a result dim-wittedness occupies the Modern Psyche of 99% of the American People-ation* .   

              Was it Hermann Hesse who grieved, "A Society rests upon its Artists and its CRIMINALS"  ?

               You can see it, rite* ?

           

"Stigmata"

                       Trump's gonna Appeal the Conviction to the scotus --- I suspect they will overturn it to free him from that  -for lack of a better word-  stigma .    Here it is where trump can easily hire a writer to record his VICTORY over  -what he sees as-  a corrupted justice system .   "To the Victor go the spoils."

Limb Bough

                        Yesterday I excised a dead limb from a 30-40 foot* Maple .   I had to use my poles and pole saw bc the positioning of the ladder was suspect due to the potential damage the limb would cause from a straight [chain saw] cut .   I had to give this cut some hard thinking bc of said potential damage to the ladder, the shed and an overhang that protects one of my table saws {I have three} .   I didn't want to use the tiny electric bc of the length of cord required [which becomes a hazard {risk}] when climbing up and down in the ladder .]  which meant my only recourse was to saw through 8 inches of limb with my pole saw .   It [the height of the limb] required two 6 foot lengths .   I confess :  'It' was a struggle .   I'm old and SOOOO  much weaker than I want to believe .   There was nothing to do but fight to release every Effort .   I mean it this way :   I wasn't Humiliated by my Weakness but CLOSE---ever so fucking CLOSE .  'It' was inside of me but `getting`  IT , "Aye, THERE'S the rub" .

Kali Fornia

                       I'm surprised the "Lunatic Fringe" has not tagged the {Biblical} Conflagration in California as a "Sodom and Gomorrah" "re-make" .   Has God changed His Mind from blessing California as the "Land  of  Milk  and  Honey"  to  a  Land  of  wanton  Perversion,  Greed , Avarice,  and  just  ol' reg'lar Moral Decrepitude ???   Ya-gotta wonder.

              I shook my head to clear it----sorta .   For some of us of Jungian 'bent' -- the Conflagration is an event of [Jung's] "Synchronicity" , "Meaningful Coincidence" .    As trumpism is CONSUMING Democracy with Horrific Fury so too the "Hell On Earth" "blitzkrieg" now advancing upon California  {Kali Fornia} .   Here it is where THOUSANDS intone , "They brought it on themselves."  I am hard-pressed not to agree .

In God We Rust

                       The Moron provided this syllogism :  "If God is Truth, then,, is Truth God ?"

"Heart Of Darkness"

                       Some  folks  insist  we  gotta  "go with your gut reaction", others chime, "What's in your Heart ?" --what does IT 'say' ?" -- few are fond of advising "Use LOGIC and Higher Order Reasoning to solve difficult Problems"  mainly bc no one has ever heard, "LOGIC is the Key" [to Understanding] .     

               You  gotta  ask,  "Can Feelings and Emotions"   ACTUALLY   govern  one's day-to-day exploitations* ?   I mean it this way :   "Shit yeah" and HELL NO " .   Can Feelings And Emotions be TRUSTED ?   OMG that's SOOOOO funny .  Of course they can and NO FUCKING WAY .   

               Uhhhh   Houston ?   We have a Problem .

"Fibber McGee and Molly"

                       I had to "look up" >> fib<< to see if it had a noun to tag `one who fibs` --- there is and it's "fibber" which then allowed "Fibber McGee and Molly" to surface from my childhood TV viewing .   

               Along with "fib" is{are} "white lies", half Truths, PARTIAL Truths,, inaccuracies,, and inconsistencies .   I am partial to "white lies" bc of Nils Lofgren and his "1+1" album/cd which features "White Lies" as its opening tract .   {Apparently Nils's  'main squeeze' is quite fond of telling his and her friends that Nils is in Love with her---also a PARTIAL Truth, which Nils exploits with happy conviction . But I digress.} 

               Elsewhere I have described Miles Davis as playing in the key of What-the-fuck .   In his Music Miles "bends" each note to achieve a singular sound .  Know that each note has 'flats' and 'sharps' half-note below and above the prime note .   The notes are "bent" in this instance and I liken THAT to the Truth being "bent" as well .   White lies and fibs "bend" the Truth to accommodate the context in which they are used .   Here it is where "bending the Truth is pure and unadulterated GENIUS --- and now this --->  Bending the Truth is a FUNCTION of Genius !!!  Anyone see THAT coming ??? Me neither .

                   

"Honesty is the best" Fallacy

                       What are we to do with THAT ???   Are we still-gonna teach it as NECESSARY ?    CLEARLY , Honesty is NOT "the best Policy" because if you get caught, being Honest MEANS being PUNISHED --- whereas Truth-Telling is NOT >>>Rewarded .   I heard a TV criminal spit ;   "It's only a crime IF YOU GET CAUGHT !!!!!!!   ALL of us KNOW that >>Lying<< is SOOOOOO much Ez-er than telling the Truth --as if [and as though] Lying is "2nd Nature"-- so embedded in our Psyche as it is .   

          Exactly HOW are Teachers to condemn Lying in favor of Truth Telling-- when the most powerful "man"  on the  Planet  is  a  CONVICTED FELON ???????   Truth did NOT "get him there"--but LYING did .   So now we must admit :  "LYING is the best Policy" .

"YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH !!!"

                       I contrived > Street Truth < to convey the day-to-day self-communications and those communications we use in everyday, common, exchanges that fall WAY short of "Social Intercourse".   I insist that folks do NOT "Value" Truth as Truth SHOULD-BE Valued ~~~  I believe a V---A---S---T of Americans DON'T WANT any form of Truth that registers AGAINST their FEELINGS, hence the careless disregard for Mirrors and Scales .   Folks DO NOT want to see themselves as cows and hippos ---DO NOT want to step on ANY scale BECAUSE THE TRUTH HURTS !!!!!!!!!!!!!  Here it is where the Truth is actually HARMFUL to one's Self-Image {and, therefore, Ego} .   In this particular, TRUTH MUST BE AVOIDED AT ALL COST .   You can see it, rite* ?

Street Truth

                       Some time ago I proffered an Argument that claimed [that] there is {really} no need of Truth,,  I cited the "Dark Ages" as evidence .   I believe that we are now  completely enmeshed in a NU* "Dark Ages" also somewhat devoid of Truth as well .   I'm thinkin' there MUST be parallels, however, since there were no "book burnings"* {that I can fitfully recall} that DOESN'T mean that the so-called "Written Word" was held as >>> inviolable;  BUT,  throughout what was to be Europe, monasteries and cloisters pursued the PROTECTION of Sacred Texts by laborious transcription .   Here it is where Priests and Monks were Guardians of said Texts, and we can thank them for their Devotion to preserve these Tomes .

             The Question is, in THESE Times where will {Street} Truth reside ?????

A eye

                       We  must prepare ourselves for a Reality devoid of Truth and one of its manifestations, Facts .   The Reliance upon Truth appears to be supplanted by Feelings, Emotions, and Sensations .   Here it is where  "We act according to the way we see things"  now  becomes, We  act  according  to  how [and what] we FEEL .   Another manifestation of Truth is 'Evidence' but with the insertion of AI in ALL aspects of Communication, even CCTV will fall victim to AI and other tech manipulation(s) .   If course Truth will still exist, but only as Platonic Ideation*.   

              With the advent and insertion of AI into the Communications Domain, Propaganda will FLOURISH !!!!   

STD = Social Traumatic Dysfunction

                                                                       Epilogue

                       I confess :   I  am  exhausted  by  my  Efforts  to  remain  SANE  in  the  American Asylum .   I have >> Wonders .   I Wonder what the Effects of incessant >> Fighting has upon valiant Combatants and brave Warriors who steadfastly pursue the "Right" and the "Good" .   I mean it this way :  How fucking HEALTHY is it to "Fight" to uphold Standards and Values that have now been nearly RUINED by HALF-A-NATION ?????????   Besides THAT, there is cringing Belief that no matter WHAT {the fuck} we do -- "IT"  will be to no avail----  I mean, THAT, rite there is a Spirit deaden-er* .   

                I NEED to leave u qidz on what cood be imagined as a "positive note" .   I steal from one Ancient Chinese Master who supplied this admonition/exhortation :  "DO NOT GIVE UP" !!!!!!

Rock Steady, Steady Az She Goze

              

The Dallier*

                       Recently {as in a few seconds ago} I have become enamored with the word, "contrivance" since it allows "half-assed" a semblance of {shameful} dignity .   Here, I use one of its definitions = scheme .   I supplement scheme with ill-considered and the image I call upon is that of "a Band-Aid on a bleeding artery" .    I posit that there are MANY political "solutions" that can be tagged with "contrivance" a Something a TRUE Thinker, those that brings things to their LOGICAL Conclusion, wood rabidly askew .   Here it is where an Enlightened Despot is a THINKER and, in the Best EASTERN {Buddhist} Sense, a NON-Thinker .     Here Solutions to Problems DEMAND Mental Exaction and a WILLINGNESS to exercise WISDOM-BASED JUDGEMENTS that they may Satisfy the Needs of the People with unblemished Compassionate Ferocity .   

The Moron

                       Allow me to quote The Moron : "Ya-gotta figure that Socialism is the next LOGICAL `assertion` of Democracy Rule" .   I agree with The Moron .   However, any Evolutionary Advance of Democracy into "Socialist Democracy" is fraught with Mental >>>>entanglements , which causes [some sort of ]  Dis-Belief {which I must characterize as DYS-Belief (using the D-y-s from >>Dystopia). in that many folks do NOT have even the slightest "Sense" of Socialism .   {The Moron said, "It ain't Communism if the People do NOT "Own" even ONE fucking thing."}  

             I like The Moron,  he reminds me of me .

Le Penseur

                                                                            Interlogue*

                       The so-called {by ME} `Writing Dynamic` supplies us the latitude to present multiple 'images' of Post-Democracy Attribution, the likes of which SHOULD 'incorporate' Ashoka, Hammurabi, and  {for what IT's worth}  Monsieur  Le Penseur  =  "The  Thinker"  [sculpted by Auguste Rodin (1880-1881)] .   This "IT" necessitates the re-Introduction of Machiavelli's The Prince in that Machiavelli "imagined" the "Enlightened Despot" to be the ABSOLUTE BEST of all Rulers .

             `Militant Idealism` DEMANDS an Ethical and Moral Trajectory toward Utopia .   The Enlightened Depot is such a(n) One whose Background MAY have a plethora of mistakes, flaws, deformations and such, but whose Experience neutralizes all Negativity from every quarter including the "Invisible Realm" .   It may be needless to report that I favor Generals instead of Philosophers, Poets and transient intellectual riff-raff * {whose Street Smart exuberance {what a poor choice} GUARANTEES a "Wisdom" based upon Survival Skills .   So it is that I favor Ahoka and General and President Dwight Eisenhower [who, incidentally, viewed the War in Europe as a {get this} "Crusade"] .

             

             

"They shoot horses, don't they ?"

                       In Ancient Sparta, deformed and even just sickly, infants were cast down to their death from a cliff or ledge .   To use the word "harsh" is a piss-poor treatment of a MASSIVELY Egregious Intolerance of Weakness .   OBVIOUSLY, Spartans were EXTREME --- I have no interest in summarily discharging Democracy is such an Unholy Manner and yet...............and yet .

            Elsewhere I have theorized that the DNA of Democracy is rife with Genetic Flaws --- rich among them the GUARANTEE of Minority PROTECTION --- I argue that this "Protection" was, in FACT, the Downfall of American Democracy since "Protection of the Minority" is what allowed Propagandal* "Freedom of Speech" and the Rule of the Minority -- a somewhat blasphemic* >>>Posture<<< given the Constitution and ITS >>>>>>>>>>> LAWS .   

            It was Democracy which GUARANTEED the Rise of ANTI-DEMOCRACY  Nihilism .  Democracy elected trump .   "Seeing is Believing".

Athens

                       Harris's  >Thing<  is to remind us{somewhat incessantly} that "Democracy is fragile" and that it `requires` unrelenting Vigilance if it is to be sustained in a HEALTHY manner .    The FACT that "Democracy is fragile" elicits [in me] the STRONGEST Reaction [RE-Action] of Contempt { a SNEERING - SCOWLING Contempt} .   Why {the fuck} should we 'protect' a 'something' whose very existence depends upon UNRELENTING VIGILANCE ?   Should we not exert ourselves in an Effort to find ANOTHER System of Governance that requires LESS >>>>>>>>>> Attention ???   It strikes me that Harris and hers consider Democracy as an Infant, a something WHOLLY inappropriate given Democracy's Age [if we place its REAL infancy to the Athens of Ancient Greece] .

                

Country Joe and the Fish

                      "What the hell are we fighting for ?"   That question SHOULD be answered as "Self-Evident" but I am hard-pressed to rely upon Common Sense and other order Reasoning, since despite being OBVIOUS,,  the Truth remains blanketed by Propaganda and a wretchedly vibrant Ignorance based upon relentless {Criminal} Stupidity .   Remember this one ? --->  "You can't fix Stupid" .

The Enemy Within

                       Harris and hers want us "to keep fighting" [for Democracy] -- Wallace and hers agree but they haven't supplied the {fucking} HOW !   Exactly HOW are we to >>> fight ?   

            There are every manner of questions that MUST be asked if ANY Efforts [to thwart trump] are to be exercised in order to re-establish ORDER in the Governance of a Divided Nation .   Who [and what] are we suppose-to fight ?   What are our weapons [if we have any at all] ?   What is the Nature of this Fight, meaning, is it a Fight to change Minds ?  A Fight to neutralize Ignorance and Stupidity ?  A Fight to lessen Human Corruption ?   These are question that came to Mind as Wallace and hers spewed forth the quasi exhortation to once more, "Enter the breech" {as Shakespeare contorted} .

"The Weakest Link"

                       Wallace and hers praised Harris for a graceful and dignified relinquishment of Governmental Authority --- a 'something' I wood have done MUCH differently .   All >> I << saw was the democraps with their tail between their legs trying to impress trumpists on the [TRUE] nature of power transition, which I'm CERTAIN they laughed at .   It was "the same old, Same Old" with the 'rats' scurrying about in a GIANT "Pity Pot" .   Nowhere was Strength of Will evident in ANY Form, such is the true nature of democraptic* insolvency .   

Wall Ace

                                                                            Prologue 

                        I didn't write about 1 -6  yesterday, it wood* have been physically punishing and mentally agonizing .   I mean shit, what else can be said about a SUCCESSFUL Insurrection in which the 'Stars and Bars" was paraded in the Capital as VICTORY Celebration .   I write today bc of Nicole Wallace's Program yesterday at dusk .   She [and hers] has [have] steadfastly* maintained a Commitment to report the Truth, which is intended to neutralize the Propaganda broadcast by fox "news" .   She has insisted that trump's Insurrection NOT be "white-washed" , where "white-washing" is a `proposition` that manifests as "an attempt to make 'normal' " trump's Criminal Imbecility .   Her and hers are to be commended for their Will .   However, there are Problems . 

The Dump

                       Uze-gyze* aint-gonna believe this BUT --- after "changin'-out" the spark plug and and rinsin'-out* the fuel cell and after heating it with a space heater and a Rubbermaid 20 gallon container [as hood] the McCulloch started AFTER JUST TH-R-EE PULLS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

               I am inwardly EXALTING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

               I discovered this Saw IN A DUMP  !!!  Someone had taken care enough to protect the chain with duct tape AND the entire saw was surprising Clean .   There had to be a reason----I figured the cylinder was stuck--it wasn't .   I checked the Vitals---all good ~~~~~~~ I could test it with fresh fuel-mix -- which I did when I returned home .   It took more than a few pulls but then it 'coughed', then sputtered, then FIRED !!!!!!!  I now was now  in possession of an ANTIQUE {fully operational} OLD SCHOOL McCulloch just like the one I learned to wield when I was 12 .   

              Want another word for MIRACLE ?????   McCulloch Model 600041U .  Plus, if it can GET any better, it "ran" a .404 chain -  which is almost MASSIVE .

               The BYG* Thing about this Saw is it's 'Low-End POWER'.   I mean it this way ;   This Saw is a MONSTER !!!!!!!!!! a True BEAST !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   This Saw can do SERIOUS Damage when it's just above IDLE !!!!!!!!!  I shyt you not .

                 

The Trinity

                       The O-26 fired instantly but did NOT stay running .   I didn't try the McCulloch bc it's been on the shed floor tucked away since last Spring, plus, it has pull-cord issues .  The Stihl MAY have fuel filter complications if gasoline coagulation [due to the corn syrup they add to it] can be considered a 'complication' .   I'm-gonna remove the filter and replace it anyway, it's been a long time,,,,,same with the spark plug .   The SOP on this is to work-over the Problem as SIMPLISTICALLY as possible .  In ALL gas powered, naturally aspirated engines, you NEED three (3) 'things' :  Air, Fuel and Spark .   The BYG* TH-R-EE* are COSMIC ABSOLUTES .    In Life it's Simple :   Food -- Water -- Air .  Of course it helps when the Air is Clean, the Water Pure and the Food plentiful .  

Starting the Starter

                       I'm leaving this account bc I want to try to fire the Stihl and the McCulloch before I run out of enthusiasm .   It's a fucking SCORCHING  31 degrees and I am PSYCHED !!!

             Know this Young Folks =  your Strength WILL ` Fade `  as you Age .  No one here escapes .

See Saws

                       Here are my saws and their weights :   Stihl O26  16 lbs. -- Dolmar Stone Cutter  30 lbs. -- Dolmar PS 510 17 lbs.  -- Dolmar PS 6000 i  21 lbs. --McCulloch  21 lbs. -- Remington 8 inch 7 lbs. --14 inch 7 lbs.    So;  "Why all the saws?"   

           I wanted my first saw to be a Stihl O24, a "smaller" type saw that I would use as my "Climbing Saw" , the one you take up into the tree --- but Steve Stewart, the owner of the Shop, convinced me to get the O26 because it was stronger [more Horsepower] {Power to Weight Ratio} than the O24, for ALMOST the same price   ----------->   that's what I bought and I never regretted it .

           The PROBLEM with having just ONE saw is that if it gets "bound up",  caught, as it were, by a VISE gripping log, you can't just yank it out, you gotta either jack it loose or use a "come-along" to free it, whereas with a second saw you can just cut it out .   But with THAT comes EXPENSE .   The Plan was for a 2 saw Operation with the second saw of MUCH greater bar length--- but  THAT  required another   3  or  for   'bills'   --- nothing  I  had  at  that  time .   SOLUTION ?   Don't  get  that  fucking saw STUCK !

Lead Feathers

                       I feel compelled to write about the saws bc starting them is a Mind-Body EVENT .   I mean IT SHOULDN'T BE bc I have so MANY years as a chainsaw-man* ,, and it SHOULD be "Second Nature" {and therefore EFFORTLESS} to 'manhandle' the units but I-GOTTA-TELL-YA ===> it AIN'T .

           I want to prepare UZE GYZE for what I once figured would NEVER "happen" to me ;  being so weak I wouldn't be able to work with them .  I have two Electrics, both `Remingtons`, one with an 8 inch bar, the other a [get this] FOURTEEN inch-er .  I use them for the pallets, bc the BYG saws are just TOO unwieldy for close work,, PLUS, they are lite* as lead feathers .  

            It's is NOT 'as if' ALL my true Strength has age-evaporated, but most tasks require, nay DEMAND, --->Thought<---  BEFORE attempting an endeavor where weight and movement are abject considerations .   OBVIOUSLY, 'it' never use-ta be a  MENTAL  Process,  "Just Do It"  was  all  that  I needed .  "Not no more" .  

The Yank-ee

                       I got the most important saw chains sharpened and the saws [themselves] running ~~~I know what you qidz are thinking =  "So fucking what ?" ~~~ and you wouldn't be 'far-off'--- thing is, I'M OLDE and yanking the pull cords in Wind-Chill Factor 10 degrees is NO small accomplishment .    It's Chain Saw Season bc the ground is frozen and there are no leaves remaining on any of the clusterfuck* trees that occupy the SSW corner of the Property .   Every year at this time I wonder if I'll have the muscle needed to Yank , especially the BYG* Dolmar .    It's NOT 'like' the Summer,, where the mower pulls are made EZ by tech-assist, plus, it's WARM --- the body loose the muscles and ligaments prepared .