Stormy Weather & a Pond

It has been unusually stormy in California the last few days. But here inthe desert it has not been too bad. We have had a lot of rain, for the desert. I decided to capture some of the water so I built a small pond. It only took me 20 minutes or so. That is a nice fast project. The next morning it filled up with rain water, so now I want to make a bigger pond. It would be neat to have a pond big enough to keep some water in all year long.

This is me--January, 1995 

Walking/Universe/Giant computer hook-up

This is my second time writing a blog. I started it I think yesterday. I hope it will be good for developing and sharing ideas. I just somehow lost what I typed earlier so I am re-creating it.

Walking
We left the light on in the back yard earlier and I went for a walk along the highway, maybe an eighth of a mile to the east, then about the same to the west. Our house went from being anonymous and invisible to visible and apparent. I could see things in the backyard such as the windmill and the sawhorse on the worktable. Then I walked across the field to the north. At first I was casting giant shadows in front of me. They gradually subsided. I looked back at our house. Our light was still the brightest thing around, brighter than any of the neighbors, brighter than any of the lights from the town or the distant marine base.

Universe
I thought about how when we look out into the sky we see only things that are illuminated. Our house was invisible until a light was turned on. Think of all the things in the universe that may be there but which we do not see because they have no illumination. And beyond the visible light, who is to say that there is not more? And what countless other universes may not exist in some other dimension beyond our ken. We are aware of this one and presume it is all there is.

Giant Computer Hook-Up
Scientists are always coming up with theories and then trying to test them to see if they hold water. Well what about this one? Maybe we (or I) are sort of like brains wired up in some laboratory, and are receiving all this data about the supposed universe from some advanced computer. How do we know the real nature of our existence? The computer data has been consistent with itself so far but there are always anomalies and unknowns. Is there a way to cognize the nature of this computer hook-up? The anomalies of life and death would seem to be provocation enough to explore this mystery.

First Notes

I just started this blog (Web Log) on Google. I want to see if it will work well for posting and sharing my thoughts and ideas.