I just thought the title would make a good title for a song.  Anyway, the question is this.  How significant in the scope of things was yesterday?

Well, here goes.  We're going back to the moon, folks!  The Artemis is on its way and it won't be long before we have people walking on the moon again.  Believe it or not, there are a lot of people walking around the earth today, that don't even believe we've been there before.  That's kind of sad and rather condescending to the early NASA years.  People sometimes forget all of the accomplishments that were made in the sixties because of all the turmoil..

Sometimes i have wondered how "our sixties" generation would turn out over time.  We have had our ups and downs, but i think in the end, we'll be viewed in a favorable light.

Anyway, back on subject.  The bombing issue is still up in the air, but it is clear the West wants to treat it like an Ukrainian Russian-made anti-missile missile was the cause.  That enables the West to toughen up Ukraine's defense using anti-missile missiles from some other place (e.g., United States).  No one wants to make it a Russian mistake (other than Zelensky) because it would require even more stringent and threatening reaction.

The decision remains the same for Putin each and every day.  There is no way he is going to keep his hands on in part of Ukraine.  He knows it, we know it, and everyone else knows it.  Bombing is not a very good strategy at this point.  It is time to surrender and cut the deal.

It's kind of funny in a way because it looks like we are using "winter" as the threat and negotiator at the same time.  Putin wants to use the "winter" as a weapon in one last ditch effort to break the will of the "free world".  Yet, no one other than Putin believes he can win the war that way.  So again, Putin is fucked.  It is time to surrender and cut the deal, Vladimir.  The deal for peace between you, ukraine, europe, and the united states.  What's so fucking wrong with that?

The winter buys everyone time to begin learning more about a new reality with the possibility of "world peace", but we could probably do that better in warm conditions than cold conditions.  That's kind of where we are as off today.

The holidays are coming and that always slows down things.  There is nothing wrong with that.  People do need to take breaks every once in a while, step back and think how grateful they should be during the holidays, then get back to work.  I understand that the pace of "change" may slow down a bit over the next couple of months.  (That is why i always thought it would be a good time for Globanomics to be introduced--when people had a time to sit back and reflect on something positive)  

Anyway, that brings me now to my own situation as of today, regarding my own plans for the holiday, talking to my diary.

I have been invited back to Indiana to spend a week over the Thanksgiving weekend.  I had mentioned earlier to my step-family that i had decided to spend the Thanksgiving and religious holiday period by myself here in North Carolina.  And that is what i have decided to do.  The holidays on my own.  I know that my sound strange to some people, but i have done it before (i.e., spent the holidays away from "home" or "by myself").  So, i know somewhat what it is going to be like without Linda this year--but i think, for me, that is still best for me to spend the time by myself.

I must admit that there is a small portion of my mind that does worry about my mind.  So far, i have convinced that small portion of my mind that i am not on the road to "craziness".  Isolation can do that to anyone.  And i now essentially spend my 24-hour day, alone with my dogs.  I make a couple of trips to the grocery store each week--just to get out.  I make a trip all the way to Roanoke Rapids (about 25 miles away) once a week to pick up dog treats.  Other than that, it is essentially me and the dogs.

Now i do not think anyone should feel sorry for me, because that is the way i want things right now.  It does make somewhat for a long day, but i have different options to choose to fill the days.  So far, that has not been a problem.  After all, i am an extreme introvert--and i always have been.  That is simply my nature.

It's hard to miss someone as you try to move on.  I miss my Linda.  I think of her all the time.  My frantic effort with the ten-part America the Great series and the 30-some lecture series on globanomics was all done with Linda in mind.  I remember telling people that Linda disliked Trump even more than i did.  She understood my optimism and globanomics, but Trump frightened her.  I couldn't convince her 100% because i was only about 99% sure myself.

Linda is not here now to watch Trump's downfall, the awakening o globanomics, and world peace.  I think that is the thing that makes me feel worse than anything.  It's not so much me missing Linda as it is that Linda is missing what she deserved to see.  Linda (double boosted) was an unrecorded coronavirus death because it was an after effect from the coronavirus which she picked up on a trip back to the Trump-denying vaccines population las spring for a wedding.  

Well, i think that is about i want to say today.  Things are good.  Things are slow.  Things could be better.  Things could be much worse.  Winter is coming and much of the world is wondering whether we are going to have a cold one or a warm one.  I guess only God would know anything about that.