Covid-19 The Great Reset

It was only through promising myself my second cup of coffee and a Tootsie Roll Pop that I could make myself attempt once more to read "u the Great Reset" by KLAUS SCHWAB THIERRY MALLERET.

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I finally made it to 20% read with many pages highlighted. One quote for example, "Jin Qi (one of China’s leading scientists) had it right when he said in April 2020: “This is very likely to be an epidemic that co-exists with humans for a long time, becomes seasonal and is sustained within human bodies.”[19]"

Also read of something called, "The Fourth Industrial Revolution (or Industry 4.0) is the ongoing automation of traditional manufacturing and industrial practices, using modern smart technology. Large-scale machine-to-machine communication (M2M) and the internet of things (IoT) are integrated for increased automation, improved communication and self-monitoring, and production of smart machines that can analyze and diagnose issues without the need for human intervention.[1]"

With my tenancy to think "Outside the Box," perhaps rather than a lightning bolt, God will use something like a solar event to create an EMP.

The wonders of electronics

I finally worked up the courage to inset the 512 gigabyte mini SD card into my new S6 tablet. No problem with the tablet recognizing the increase storage so I finally called up Verizon to get internet service transferred from the S3 tablet to the S6 tablet.

I asked, by the way what does it mean when it says the SIM card is missing. The people at tech support were very patient and understanding. We were trying to determine where the SIM card went. The tech person was looking at a schematic that didn't match my tablet. Finally and for about the fourth time I opened the expansion card slot. Actually there's two cards there, one is the 128g GB card provided by Verizon and the other is the 512gb that I installed. I made the comment that the 128 card says Sim on it. It finally dawned on me that is where the SIM card goes.

So one very small compartment on the tablet has two mini memory cards and the tiny 128 card has a little bitty space to slip the little itty bitty SIM card into, about the size of the fingernail on my little finger.
I've looked through all the packaging and I couldn't find the SIM card so they're sending me another one Monday.

Later I tried to make a phone call only to find out that it was deactivated by mistake, likely mine. Service was quickly restored, a blond thing?

It's nearly four decades since I bought my first Sinclair 1 kilobyte computer that I could hook up to my TV and write I think three lines of Basic and run the greeting of the day through an endless loop. Then a Commodore 64 and after that a 30-pound Compaq lunchbox computer, later a windows  computer  that I had to keep shuffling  the firmware in because of interrupt problems  and then on to a series of laptops and tablets including Kindle readers.

Through it all, progress is wonderful. Still being a bit of a prepper, I have a few small electronic gizmos and a solar activated charger in Faraday bags just in case of either an EMP or a solar event.

I'm using this blog primarily as a "Landing Page" for my Online Shopping Carts. 

That said, a secondary use will be to air my musings time to time.

Update and Thinking Outload

I'm looking forward to returning to my winter home in Quartzsite, AZ after a quiet summer off-the-power-grid in northeastern Arizona at 6,000 feet. I own a 5.19 parcel of high desert dirt complete with travel trailers and the only power there is that which comes from the sun, collected by solar panels and stored in batteries. 

Once I'm at my winter home I'll be back on the power grid and once again paying an electric bill. Living off the power grid in the summer is not a big deal as there is plenty of sun to keep the storage batteries topped off. In the winter there is far less sun and the biggest power consumption is my electric refrigerator.

Mom's New Permanent at Nearly 102 Years Old, from 2013

Still sharp mentally after all these decades!

Removing the Excess (dross) from my life

Proverbs 25:4, "Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer."

Years ago I bought scrap silver from a friend who was also silversmith. To this collection I added bits and pieces of broken jewelry I’d purchased over the years. A few years ago I had it melded down and molded into a dozen or more small ingots, some of which I sold and some I still have as an investment.This was a lesson in removing dross from my life as well as the dross that was skimmed off the silver. The silver scrap was like razor blades and the broken jewelry had limited value and took up storage space. Converting the razor-sharp scrap silver and bulky scrap jewelry into ingots resulted in a sell-able and smaller dross free final product. A great life lesson.

About six years ago I had an enormous amount of dross in my life. I owned a mobile home in Quartzsite, Arizona with two storage sheds and shelves full of odds and ends on a covered patio. I also owned a travel trailer in an owner campground in Michigan, complete with a 30’ x 10’ enclosed porch and a storage shed both full of stuff. Then there was my 5.19 acres of high desert dirt in North Eastern Arizona where I had a storage shed, two travel trailers for living and a 33 foot trailer used for storage. Add to that I had an RV filled with inventory for sale on my e-commerce carts; jewelry and strands of gemstone beads.I would literally wake up at night in a near cold sweat wondering what I would ever do with all of this stuff. 

I felt that my life was similar to that of "The Islanders – A Fable" by Idries Shah.

For years God laid it on my heart to simplify my life. First I sold my Michigan trailer, etc. to my niece and nephew at a much reduced price. As I didn't even return to Michigan, my niece held a yard sale and we split the proceeds. That fall I spent five weeks on my high desert dirt in North Eastern Arizona arranging for the removal of the storage trailer and generally getting the property ready as a summer getaway from the extreme heat of Quartzsite. Upon my return to Quartzsite I sold my trailer also at a much reduced price and gave the new owners most of the stuff in it. I temporally lived on the BLM in my RV and then moved into the RV park I've winter in for five years. 

Although on the surface, I lost considerable potential value by selling the above at much reduced prices and/or giving things away the relief I've experienced is priceless. I have far less stress/ dross in my life and can devote even more time to the study of the Word and my Online shopping carts. However, God always comes first!

Thought concerning Long-term Unemployment Originally Written in 2019

   I grew up in Michigan and way back then I could see the beginning of the hand witting on the wall for the auto industry.

  After I graduated from college I went to work for a container producing company. We were working on qualifying steel from overseas to use in producing containers. I remember asking if we buy supplies overseas where will people in this country get jobs to buy the product packed in the containers we produce.

  Of course there is another side to this story. I also remember how much the union rules interfered with my doing my job by not allowing me to write the various codes on the containers I used in my research. I had to stand over a union worker to make sure he wrote the correct codes on each container so two of us were required to do a job that should have taken me half the time to do alone.

  When I was unemployed for several months and much younger I put on a short shirt and tended bar. A few weeks I made more money as a bar-maid then in my technical field. I also worked as a waitress to support my kids while I looked for a job in my field. I even jumped from the consumer field to the aerospace field with about a 10% reduction from my last job. I collected unemployment when necessary but never stopped looking for a job. But then I'm from another generation, not that of the current.