Month: September 2026

My little ebay store is starting to do some business. One stellar sale was a few days ago, of an antique bronze sundial. I bought it for 8 pounds in London in the winter of 1987 and after all ebay’s fees, it gave me back $450. Not bad.

Mostly selling rock slabs, otherwise. Slices of agate and jasper, mostly, and mostly top quality. At somewhat depressed prices, it’s obvious that all the blah blah about our economy being so great, I can tell you, is a pack of lies, it’s not so hot. You can’t let in 30 or 40 million unemployed migrants willing to do anything for any money, and expect wages to be up and it’s those good wages that make a good economy.

But the truth is I don’t need the money anyway, I’m just an entrepreneurial type, and it helps keep me involved in my hobby and from being bored. I do wish I had a nice share of Elon’s money though, it would be so much more fun to live on a mega-yacht and go fishing in Bermuda. I’d hire one of those Jamaican steel drum bands to make music on the fantail in the evenings.

HEADLINE: “The death toll from flash floods along the Nepal-China border rose above 1,300 on Friday, while more than 5,600 others remained missing.”

When there’s too many people, they run out of room for safe places to build, and then this happens, over and over and over again. If Man doesn’t limit his numbers, Mother Nature will do it for him.

I would really feel sorry for these people if I didn’t already feel a lot worse for all the other animals that have lost their homes because we took them.

Absolutely perfect weather today. The blasting heat of summer in the desert is over for another year. July and August were plenty hot, but it’s cooled off early this year as the heat usually extends into September. Not this time, the long range weather outlook is more of the same like today.

I tell you, this Global Warming is a great thing, as our summers have been getting cooler on the average and the winters warmer. Life is good.

IN OTHER NEWS… The Chinese appear to be way ahead of Elon’s Optimus robots, they’ve been selling household helpers for a few months now. But try to buy one and you meet a wall, because the US won’t allow them to be imported “for security reasons”, which means Elon’s ‘bots have been given a government monopoly. Nothing chickenshit about that, right? Just because they’ll cost twice as much and aren’t even in production yet… This pisses me off because the first real use for them is for the aged and disabled, and if the Chinese have better, faster and cheaper, then why not?