June 13, 2025 a thought for today, Evil deeds done in secret are seen by the spirits as a flash of fire. Chinese Proverb

An upload for yesterday was “makes no sense” but it happens often. It makes no sense and is disrespectful and shows indifference. 

The next upload was “transport”. I had ideas for several of these. I decided on
this one to show one form, a very common form, of transport. 

This last upload for yesterday was “my choice” and another of my series of reflections. A reflection of cars in a parking lot and poles and wires, in other words a city view. 

Life today. The biggest thing I have accomplished so far today was a start on the newsletter. It gives me a healthy start on it. The deadline isn’t until a week from Sunday. I always feel a bit “safer” when I am able to be ahead on the bulletin and the newsletter. The rest of the morning has been some research for the newsletter and some other for odds and ends that I have been questioning. I call that kind of research.... extending my education. 

I was able to make it to a funeral home to pay my respects to a dear friend and her family yesterday. I don’t handle these kinds of visits well. I have problems with it since my father-in-law whom I took care of in his last few remaining months passed away many years ago. I first felt the experience when I checked on him the morning that was the end of his life on earth. My own father died a few weeks later. Even more so now that I have “lost” (daily touch with) with one of my children. I was anxious all day knowing I needed to do it. 

Today’s first upload was “oopsie daisy”. If we look around there could be all kinds of oopsie daisies, this was an handy one to show. 

I didn’t want to go out today so my photos for upload today are finds in my archives. Some of them, many really as I travel through the archives, remind me of the emotions I had snapping the images. Going through my archives is much like going through an old family photo album. There are years of old memories, happy and sad. It’s really a visual journal of life. 

Next is another of the “my choice” and another of my series of reelections. It’s a book that rests on the table all the time except for once a day when it is being read.

The word today is consequences.  Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence. Thomas Jefferson.  The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it. Blaise Pascal.  Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result. Robert Green Ingersoll.  When anger rises, think of the consequences. Confucius.  Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences. Robert Louis Stevenson.  In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. Robert Green Ingersoll.  How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. Marcus Aurelius.  Consequences are unpitying. George Eliot. Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men. Thomas Huxley.  Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. Thomas Hobbes.  But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later. Lydia M. Child.  

The last upload was “insect”. I think I may have show this fellow in another photo earlier. He was busy and unconcerned.

Article: For me this subject was not too interesting but I think it may be something that is worth leaning about. The title is “How your air conditioner can help the power grid, rather than overloading it”. When the summer heat gets to near unbearable people turn on the AC. Years ago it was open windows and doors and fans. One of the problem is when so many AC systems are turned on at the same time it is a draw on the available electricity. So much so that sometimes it can cause “brown outs”. According to the article studies show that it may be possible to “coordinate the operation of large numbers of home air-conditioning units” at the same time “balancing supply and demand on the power grid”. This can be done without people having to suffer in the heat. It went on to say that using remote control can control air conditioners to support the grid. However it hasn’t been used successfully yet. There has been an attempt “to balance the grid on timescales of seconds”. It apparently can be done “without affecting residents’ comfort”. I gather that is a project the would be “supporting a shift away from fossil fuels toward cleaner energy”. The research for this plan is focused on batteries and solar panel. Other equipment would be incorporated in the plan. The equipment to consider would be “electric vehicles, water heaters, air conditioners and heat pumps” where they can be adjusted “to consume different amounts of energy at different times”. Originally power plants burned coal or natural gas and could adjust to the amount of power “they generated in response to customer demand, so the grid would be balanced”. Now there are “renewable” energy sources like solar panels and wind turbines that can generate and store energy. “The goal is to provide electricity at a constant frequency” at all times. It is mentioned that new options should also be considered on “how distributed energy resources can improve flexibility in the grid”. Thermostats can be set to switch between heat or cool depending on the temperature fluctuations. This allows for “aggregate power consumption to change”. There is more testing on ways to regulate power and save money. 

It’s DoorDash/GrubHub for dinner. 

Joy 

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