January 30, 2025 a thought for today, Better the bite of a friend, than the kiss of an enemy. Hebrew Proverb

One of the uploads for yesterday was “on my own”. This is where I am most of the time and I am on my own right here....except for Sweet Pea laying by my desk chair. 

This next upload for yesterday was “pickles”. It seemed like a odd assignment but it’s fun to show most parts of life in photo. Who know how creative and interesting it can get. 

The last photo a day upload for yesterday was “prints in the snow”. I believe this is a shoe print from one of the times I let Sweet Pea out as I checked on the rest of the yard. 

Life today. This is more like it. We have finally gotten to 40 degrees. We still have some patches of snow here and there but it is mostly gone. 

I was in the church most of the time by myself this morning. Patti came in shortly before I was ready to leave. She had asked one of the men from one of the groups who meet at our church to have a look at the computer in the office. It has been extremely slow to boot up and then to load the software and printer set up. He had worked on it since I used I last. It was faster than the last time I printed. I think the life of a computer it about 6 to 8 years. That is about the age of this one. Anyway, the update on this one was a nice surprise. 

I am concerned about Sweet Pea. She is either sleeping a lot or pacing around seeming to not be able to decide what to do. I think her age is showing more and more. I am already sad. She is my partner and best friend. 

The first upload today is “letters”. I am showing letters of the alphabet in this message in the stained glass window. 

This has been an easy going day. Tomorrow Lowell will be with me as we get the final part of getting the car business finished. I have to get the title transferred and new license plate. He wants it transferred in a certain way that I am not sure how to do so he is going with me. 

I was able to get my photo a day photos while I was out this morning, then run through the “darkroom”, Photoshop. Now I am ready for the uploads. Then to the kitchen to make the casserole. 

The next upload for today is “wood or wooden”. As I was walking through the sanctuary I saw the light imprints on the wooden pew of the church and decided to use this one.  

The word today is see.  It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. Henry David Thoreau.  Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. Arthur Schopenhauer.  Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. Saint Augustine.  Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children. Sitting Bull.  To love beauty is to see light. Victor Hugo.  Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of. Charles Spurgeon.  Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. Thomas Carlyle.  The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.  We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts. William Hazlitt.  I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him. Abraham Lincoln.  It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it. Voltaire. To see things in the seed, that is genius. Lao Tzu.  We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt. Walter Scott.  The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity. Lucius Annaeus Seneca.  We do not see people as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading. Robert Greene.  Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live. Marcus Aurelius.  

The last upload for today is “to my left”. This is the view I have to my left every day as I work on the computer. I also glace out to see the people walking their dogs and notice weather conditions. 

Article: Here AI is mentioned again in an area of “helping” along with satellites. I haven’t read the whole article as I am reading it as I share with you. The title is: How satellites and AI help fight wildfires today. At the beginning the article mentioned how the “fire-spotting technology and computer models were helping firefighters” in the 2025 fire in California”. It went on to mention that some of the technology used in that fire was new and “evolved” over the year yet “some techniques are very similar to those used over 100 years ago”. Years ago the first were reported by people seeing smoke. Early in the 20th century fire towers will built. There towers had windows on the four walls. These towers provided living space for lookouts. They were build due to the “Great Fire of 1910 that burned 3 million acres in Washington, Idaho and Montana and killed 87 people.” Today there are cameras set up to “watch over many high-risk areas”. This is were AI is mentioned. AI technology analyzes the images and passes it on to the appropriate people and places. It is “trained” to see repetitive patterns in the smoke plumes. Along with satellites they can “generate” alerts over wider areas. With AI and other technology mock fire and be imaged and studied for fuel details and information on ground-level plant growth and tree “canopies, tree height and density. With his kind of information how a fire may spread can be can aid in forecasting what may be likely to happen. All of these “tools” are available to firefighters thought computer applications ultimately help fire crews as he respond to wildfires. One thing that cannot be predicted is he wind. Firefighting can be greatly aided with this information however, “Ultimately, during a fire, firefighting strategy is based on human judgment informed by experience, as well as science and technology.”

Tuna Casserole sounds good for dinner. 

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