I was walking totally nude in the delightful sunshine back to the house from a searingly hot shower (gee I hope your not reading this before breakfast!) when it occurred to me that entropy certainly takes its toll – I was looking at the paint on the workshop you asshole – I can’t see my body without a mirror and I wasn’t wearing my glasses anyway so just shut the fuck up and quit your snickering and besides I look hot as hell naked and well never mind, where was I? But entropy seems to work in reverse when it comes to technology. All new products are more complex, have more stupid features, are harder to use and don’t last as long. (fasten your seat belts you’re in for an old fart curmudgeon rant) The latest Microsoft product, Microsoft (insert any random fucked up string of numbers or focus group marketing crap word here) will be about 10x more complex, use 10x more memory space and computing power, will be more difficult to use and will crash your system more often. The new refrigerators will urinate streams of cold water and defecate ice cubes from their double doors, they will be frost free, they will be programmable, they will cost more than a thousand dollars, they will break down in 5 to 7 years. The new TVs will be hi-definition with stereo surround sound and sub woofers and include yellow as one of the basic colors on the screen pattern and be a flat panel screen and have space shuttle like console remote controls and die in 4 years. Cars will have 10 times the moving parts and have them all controlled by an inscrutably obscure Microsoft program and GPS so they know where you are and how fast you’re going and your state of sexual arousal and the dashboard will have people talk to you from remote locations via satellite and your seats will have memories and be heated, simulating pissing your pants on cold morning. Easy chairs will have internal massage rollers and integrate into sectionals and the foot rests will fall off. Well I think its all fucking CRAP! Cut the complexity and make things do what they’re supposed to do properly and durably.  That’s why people cherish old tools and antiques – these things were built simply and with care for durability and easy comfortable long term use. Just a second … I think I’ve come up with a way I can put a microprocessor in a shovel – this will make me a million dollars…

Its another rainy cool day here but we need the moisture. The weather will be rebounding quickly into sunny warm days by Sunday and for the rest of the week. The fishing has been good if you’re willing to go out in a north wind with misty rain – but why the hell would I do that – I’m here all summer Ha ha ha ha ha – eat your heart out – and there ain’t no goddamn black flies - La la la la (as Babe the pig would say).