Miss the Russians

 Just checked the stats.  Not a single Russian is shown as a blog reader.  What a change from 400 to 0.  I liked having the Russians participate, and would welcome them back.  Maybe they did leave, or maybe they are sneaking in some other way.  Always keep in mind they are the best hackers in the world.  Just to let me know you still love me Russians why don't you show up as a few guys from North Korea or something? It would be nice to have you back.  Just knowing Russia thinks Kadizzle is important make the ego thrive. 

Reno Pass

Two old people one within weeks of 72 and the other 71 with a need for exercise.  Winky decides on a bike ride up to Reno Pass. The settlers gave up on the road because it was too hard on the horses.  The road was also hard on the ebikes and the old bikers.  If someone could build a road by sprinkling softball sized rocks these people did, then the road builders hung the road on the side of a cliff.  It is about six miles to the top.  When we finally got within a quarter mile of the top the road was so bad we just walked.  Winky went to the very top, but Kadizzle sat on a rock and looked at the GPS.  The map indicated the top was about four hundred feet higher. Winky came back and reported it was just a short distance away.  On the way up Winky had a spectacular crash with no injuries, however she just about went off the edge.  Coming down Kadizzle had his crash and bloodied his knee.  The ebikes are amazing.  The ability of that little battery to push a lump ass up that mountain is some great technology.  The Reno Pass road get very near the top of Mount Ord.   Mount Ord is the highest peak around, and is used for every type of antenna, and other broadcast system.  The road was used to bury the cable up the mountain.  It must have been an engineering feat.  The mountains around Tonto Basin are extremely rugged.  Early roads were treacherous.  People must have been very determined in the early days.  Lazy people of todays time could never have built such paths through the wilderness. 

A Strange talent

 Kadizzle has a strange talent.  It started over fifty years ago.  Winky and Kadizzle were attending a wedding in North Carolina.  When we got there a bunch of people were standing on the end of the dock.  Apparently someone had dropped and expensive pair of glasses into the water.  They had been trying to retrieve the glasses for over an hour.  It was about 25 ft deep at the end of the dock.   Kadizzle volunteered to dive for the glasses.  He told someone to drop and anchor where they thought the glasses had fallen.  Kadizzle jumped in and pulled himself down on the anchor line.  As he went down it was so dark he could not see anything.  When he placed his hand on the bottom of the lake he felt the glasses and brought them up.  It was sheer dumb luck, but the crowd and Kadizzle were amazed.  Since then Kadizzle has recovered numerous items for people like keys, phones, VHF radios, and other things.  On the big lake Kadizzle had a reputation for his diving skills. 

When the Rusty 1 overturned the other day a GPS, and a lot of other stuff went in the water about 40 ft out and in about ten feet of water. Kadizzle was determined to find the stuff.  First he estimated where the boat overturned.  Now there was one big problem the water is cold.  A boater said it was 53 degrees.  Kadizzle jumped in and followed the ramp out. The first thing he found was a bottle of beer. That was a clue he had found the wreck site.  He had to get out shivering and warm up.  Next dive he found a bolt.  Kadizzle had a great idea.  Using a gatorade bottle he made a float by putting rocks in a grocery bag.  With the float he marked the wreck sit.  Yesterday afternoon he went in and found the plastic box with the tools in it.  Kadizzle was so happy that he was going to quit, but decided to go in once more.  On the final dive he found the GPS.  More amazing than getting rid of Trump the GPS still worked.  

It don't hurt to ask

 The second shot went in the arm yesterday, so freedom is not too far away.  Read the article on viruses in the NYT today, very interesting.  The incident with the boat meant Kadizzle had to get a new phone. The Verizon store invented extra charges faster than Kadizzle could breath.  When Kadizzle got home he called Verizon and told them to take $25 off his bill for poor service, they did.  Every winter Kadizzle ask Verizon to reduce his bill because of poor service.  Once he asked for $25 and they gave him $70.  Credit card companies will always forgive a late charge if you ask them.  Kadizzle told one yesterday he was not paying, they said fine.  When companinies hook a sucker they know they need to keep  them. 

A change of subject.  There is a guy we sort of work with sometimes.  For entertainment Kadizzle sometimes gets in a political discussion with him.  He is a right wing dinger.  The other day Kadizzle was in a discussion with him and began to remember what a pathological liar he is.  It occurred to Kadizzle what is the point of going back and forth with a liar.  Somehow when these guys lie you can smell it.  In this conversation we were talking about welfare cheats.  Willy, not his real name said his ex wife was a welfare cheat.  Willy said he saw an attorney give his ex wife a check for 2 million dollars.  Just doesn't seem real.  Last year Willy said he shot and killed a man in a tire dealership, when Kadizzle checked out the story it had some elements of truth, but the police shot the man not Willy.  In a polite way Kadizzle accused Willy of lying.  Willy did not understand the implication.  The number of people falling for the Willies in the world account for Trump's rise. 

Two things that tipped over yesterday

Yesterday was an adventure day of the first magnitude. Two things tipped over, a sailboat, and a fat lady.  Kadizzle was giving Bill his second sailing lesson in the Rusty 1.   We started with no wind, but it picked up nicely and we were having a blast.  The boat took off like a rocket and the excitement was uncontainable.  After a lot of fun it was time to head to the dock. With the wind still strong Kasdizzle was going to show Bill how we could sail the little 14ft Rusty one right up to the dock.  It did not work as planned. Kadizzle was having Bill steer, which may have been the root cause of the disaster.  Steering a boat with a tiller can be confusing.  As we were about to make the final maneuver a strong puff of wind hit the boat and Bill steered the wrong way.  With both of us on one side of the little boat it tipped over instantly throwing us in the water.  Bill is 76 and nothing but skin and bones.  The water was 53 degrees and Kadizzle was worried about Bill.  Bill has had heart surgery and who knows what the sudden shock might have done to him.  Kadizzle quickly shouted at Bill to see if he could swim.  Luckily the answer was yes.  Like to full grown idiots we had two life jackets, but were not wearing them.  The life jackets were floating away.  Bill made it to the boat ramp and now Kadizzle was on his own to save the boat.  A good stroke of luck was that Kadizzle had tied a nice long piece of rope to the front of Rusty 1.  Kadizzle could not touch the bottom of the lake, but managed to swim to the front of the boat and uncoil the rope.  The rope was long enough for Kadizzle to get to shallow water.  Slowly and tangled in fishing ling he pulled the Rusty 1 toward the dock.  At the same time this Chinese fire drill started a fisherman with his wife pulled up to the dock in a fishing boat.  Kadizzle thought surely the man would come to our rescue.  No such luck.  The poor man had a 400lb wife.  Kadizzle was so caught up in moving the Rusty 1 he did not see how the elephant size wife made it onto the deck, but apparently she collapsed there. Kadizzle surmised she had some sort of medical condition. Bill was with the fisherman and the two of them were trying to drag the woman off the dock in a sitting position with her feet aimed toward the shore.  Kadizzle manage to pull the bow rope to the dock and secure the turned over boat so the wind would not blow it away.  Next Kadizzle went to see if he could be of service in the rescue of the woman.  When Kadizzle got to Mrs. Fisherman she explained to him she could not stand up because of her enormous weight.  Bill and her husband did not have the strength to upright this mass of humanity by themselves.  Kadizzle acted as a pulling force and Bill and Fisherman lifter her arms.  Like the Titanic in revers she rose bow first and managed to sustain the upright position.  The escorted her off the dock and presumably she survived in reasonable condition.  They have not yet given out the awards for who was the stupidest yesterday. The Fisherman could win with his entry, or we may win with ours.  It was easy to see there were four stupid people gathered together doing a drill in survival.  Kadizzle had no clue how to upright the sailboat.  Experienced with catamarans and uprighting them Kadizzle had an idea.  He would go out and stand on the dagger board. The weight should pry the boat upright.  All of a sudden the brain came to life and Kadizzle realize this was impossible with a monohull.  The the Einstein moment hit.  If Kadizzle could use the mast for leverage the boat might upright.  Kadizzle was going to jump in the water with a line and hook it high on the mast with this plan.  As he pulled the boat to the dock he grabbed on of the stays.  The stays are the lines that hold the mast up.  Pulling on the stay Kadizzle miraculously up-righted the boat.  Both Bill and Kadizzle were amazed at the feat.  The boat popped up to it's rightful position so quickly both were startled.  The boat got back on the trailer with no harm.  Kadizzle had to go across the bay in water up to his neck to retrieve the beer cooler, and the floating beer, along with the life jacket.  When Kadizzle got to the first life jacket caught on a tree sticking out of the water he put it on.  About two hours late, but as the say better late than never.  Today the goal is to find goggles or make googles to recover a few items still cooling on the bottom of the lake.  The moral of the story is don't let anything top heavy tip over on a windy day. 

The Russian mystery.

 Kadizzle just checked to see what countries were checking out the blog.  Very strange the way things changed. The Russians disappeared.  Now,  Americans are the big viewers.  What happened? The Russians are getting real good grades for their hacking.  Maybe they are now coming in disguised as Americans.  Why in the hell they would have the least interest in this crap is puzzling.  Maybe they actually don't and left.  Sure is strange to see such a flip.  Well Russians if you are still reading this tell your friends Kadizzle admires the protest against Putin.  If you Russians decide to poison me it can be done very easily.  Just put Ice cream by my door in large quantities. Within a week or two Kadizzle will explode.  Coffee ice cream will work the best.  

A sprawling mess

 Kadizzle had the assignment yesterday to drive over 200 miles to pick up some stuff for the Forest Service in Phoenix.  Phoenix is a sprawling mess.  The cancer of urban sprawl has eaten up the East coast, and the East side of the Rocky Mountains.  From Denver you can go north or south and drive from one shopping mall to the next.  Phoenix is like a checkerboard of shopping malls.  How did people build these cute little towns in Europe, and even in early America? Back in the old days people planned towns.  Is there anything better than a town square?  Now, fast food joints pop up like weeds.  Highways are like spider webs with on ramps, off ramps, and areas impossible to navigate on foot or bike.  Winky and Kadizzle used to talk about poorly laid out homes.  We called them Weneeda homes.  We need a kitchen, we need a bedroom, wee need a den.  Just put them anywhere with no relation to how one relates to the other.  When you drive through a town often it seems to have been laid out on the We Needa plan.  No though is given to what goes where.  One major thing that has been left out everywhere is the need for mass transit.  It is put in as an afterthought, so then it doesn't work.  We seem to fear planning.  The health care system in this country is just a patchwork mess.  The virus has proved that.  When the dust settles it is clear most of our infrastructure works for the wealthy, but is hard on the poor.  The rich get good health care, the poor are left to rot.  The rich get good water, the poor get all the lead they can drink.  The rich live in the castle and drop their waste in the mote.  The poor drink from the mote and pick up the crumbs from the castle. 

The Mind of a Hooplehead

 For entertainment Kadizzle has been going back and forth with a Hooplehead.  Unfortunately the country is plagued with the simple minded.  Hoopleheads did not go to college, or they went to some school that is made to resemble a college.  My old Republican neighbor summed it up best when he said " Education just confuses people".  Facts, research, and data are toxic to the Hoopleheads.  Most of their information comes from the coffee shop, right wing media, and hanging around with other Hoopleheads.  Hoopleheads are not to hard to spot.  A Trump flag or sticker is a sure sign.  Add to that maybe a concealed weapon or an NRA sticker.  Hoopleheads have a disdain for educated people.  If you went to college, you are confused. You don't understand poor people are welfare cheats, you don't understand the rich provide us with everything.  One amazing thing about the Hooples is they all hate Obama.  They cannot say why. The real reason is they are racist.  After all it is the black people who is after their money.  Most Hoopleheads buy lottery tickets.  This explains a lot.  Each Hooplehead believes they will soon be rich.  Since they are going to be rich they figure now is the time to make sure the rich don't get taxed.  Republicans know exactly how to manipulate a Hooplehead.  Scaring them works best.  You can feed the Hoopleheads conspiracy theories all day long.  Hoopleheads have no understanding of government, that is why you can turn socialism into a scare word.  BLM is a classic case.  Republicans turned it into a conspiracy theory.  Then there is the old Jesus routine.  Somehow the Hoopleheads think Jesus chose Trump.  Now how does that work? Religion is the bane of the Hoopleheads.  They can go to church and come home hating everyone.  How does that work?  They can go to church then vote for someone who breaks every commandment.  Hoopleheads never read anything of substance.  Reading was not their strong point.  It is far easier for a Hooplehead to watch Fox News, or tune into KFYR radio and get their minds filled with fantasy. 

The scammer and the rooster

A good laugh.  The scammer just called Kadizzle.  So far Kadizzle has won over 100 million from the scams.  Kadizzle like to draw out the scam conversation as long as possible just to waste the scammers time.  So along we go with the scam talk, and then on the scammers end of the phone Kadizzle hears the distinct crowing of a roosters. Kadizzle ask the scammer if they have chickens in the office.  The scammer says no.  Kadizzle tells the scammer he distinctly heard a rooster in the background cowing.  The scammer hung up.  That rooster will probably be dinner tonight for the scammer.  Imagine making a fake call pretending you are Readers Digest Sweepstakes headquarters and having a rooster crow in the background.  Got to go to the mailbox to pick up my check for five million.  

Everywhere

 The plan yesterday was to find a mountain road.  The plan mostly failed.  The dessert played it's tricks on Kadizzle and the road which he saw on a hike the other day was not where he thought it was.  First, Kadizzle and Winky headed up a dead end road that went the wrong way.  Next the two hikers took off following her GPS to an Indian site she had found the other day. On the way there we came across a large pottery shard in the middle of no place one should be. Usually these shards are found close to a dwelling.  Soon we got to Winky's recent find of a dwelling.  From there we found two or three other new sites. For the final hike out we went down a desert ridge.  All along the ridge we found pottery shards.  The sheer number of dwelling we found in the area is amazing.  The Tonto Basin had a lot of inhabitants six hundred years ago.  Figuring out what they were doing is a continuing mystery.  Winky saw something shiny and dug it out.  It turned out to be a very well made bird point.  What is a bird point?  Apparently the Indians used very small arrows to hunt birds.  A small arrow has a small point.  This arrowhead was about the size of a dime.  If the ambition gland kicks in maybe Kadizzle will post a picture later.  

We are up early to go to the grocery store in Globe. Winky has a notion that the virus can be avoided by shopping early in the day. 

Putting your friend in danger

 Kadizzle set out for a little motorcycle ride yesterday.  First a visit to the fishing tournament.  77 boats out chasing fish.  Next Kadizzle decided to ride around the gate and visit the other boat ramp that was under water.  Near the water Kadizzle spotted some garbage he thought he would dispose of. Nearing the garbage he realized it was some unopened bottles of flavored beer.  There were some people walking away and he thought it might be theirs.  Kadizzle drove up to the people and asked if it was their drinks.  Since Kadizzle had on a Forest Service Volunteer hat they must have thought he was accusing them of something.  Strangely they wanted to open the little hand held cooler and show Kadizzle what was in it.  Maybe they did leave the garbage and felt guilty.  The zinger was the gun.  Stuffed under the belt of one of the dingers was a hand gun.  It seemed a little odd to carry a gun that way.  The gun was pointed right at the guy's crotch.  Kadizzle thought it was not a good idea to point a gun at your best friend in your pants.  Now a lot of these gun nuts have their guns loaded and cocked. The only thing between them and disaster is the safety on the gun. Should this guy accidently fire his gun his best buddy would be splattered all over his underwear.  Gun nuts are not the brightest stars in the sky.  This is why they should not have guns in the first place. All of a sudden this story brings back a memory.  Long ago and far away when Kadizzle was young in the hills of West Virginia there was a hillbilly named Thermond Rollin Tanzy.  Tanzy as he was known was practicing his quick draw with an old fashioned six shooter.  Luck for him it was just 22 caliber.  Drawing the cocked gun it went off before he got it out of the holster.  The gun shot through his knee and the bullet came back out and went into his foot.  He had invented an excellent new way to shoot his foot off.  Maybe Trump could try this. 

Paid my Taxes

 Yesterday Kadizzle paid his taxes.  Sadly Kadizzle paid two or three times more than Trump.  The tax system is upside down the more money you have the lower tax rate you pay.  Of course Republicans think the rich should pay no taxes.  The rich provide us with air, water, God, and guns.  The rich trickle on us.  Ronald Reagan started the trickle down.  Now that we are all trickled on life is good, there is no poverty ,  the infrastructure is fine,  and we are free to attack the Capitol.  Best of all Republicans have done a lot to remove the inheritance tax so little rich kids can grow up to be big rich kids that never worked in their life.  It has always been the rich that took care of us. The rich used to pick the cotton, and mine the coal.  Just drive down the road and you will see the rich working everywhere.  That guy driving the bus is rich, the guy picking up your garbage can is rich. We owe the rich so much for doing so much for us. Without the rich nothing would get done.  Go to a poor country with few rich people. There you will find poor people working.   That could happen here if we do not protect the rich.  All of us poor people would have to work if we were not trickled on.  Thankya Jeeeesus for the rich. 

Cramer responds

 There it is the email from Cramer.  A form letter full of excuses for Donald Trump.  The same sorrowful excuses Cramer sells to the cult. Kadizzle is not in the cult, and would like some real answers.  Then you have his brother Hoeven, the " empty suite".  Two worthless lickspittles that represent North Dakota.  Kadizzle has been banned for three days from facebook because he suggested people eradicate Republicans.  Seems like a good idea.  Now if Trump suggest we eradicate Mike Pence that is fine. We live in a strange world.

Tony Bender wrote a good piece today, as he always does.  Bender is a bright light in North Dakota going right to the neck of the Hoopleheads.  On the other hand are all the hacks like Scott Hennen. Scott Hennen went to the Capitol and participated in the riots.  Scott fires out lies for two hours every day on KFYR.  The farmers and rednecks eat up the lies and here we are.  

What do the Europeans think

Traveling you get to sample the minds of people who do not live in the bubble of the United States.  Often Winky and Kadizzle get the foreign view from visitors to the U.S. Most are reluctant to insult our country, but if you give them an opening they will tell you they are amused and amazed that we are so ignorant we would let someone like Trump come to power.  Foreign people will point our out shortcomings we will not admit.  Ask a Canadian or a German what they think about our health care.  It is not all bad.  Europeans are amazed by out public lands.  People are amazed by out interstate, and the size of the country.  Sadly most people from Europe realize the sheer number of stupid people we have. Our education system has failed most Americans.  Sure we have some people who excel, but we have 74 million total idiots that voted for Trump and still believe him.  If you want to truly know what your house looks like you need to step out of it to the street and look back. You cannot see your house through the Fox News tube. 

Hateful

 Kadizzle has always been puzzled when he is accused of being hateful.  Many times in a heated exchange with hard core right wing people Kadizzle is accused of being hateful.  Apparently disagreeing with people is hateful.  Usually the right wing person get's backed into a corner and the usual comment is not a reply with logic, but the comment " why are you hateful".  Arguing over the speed of light Kadizzle points to information that it is 186,000 miles per second.  The right wing person responds " why are you so hateful?"  This comes up a lot with religion.  Some person makes some crazy assertion and you question it. Why are you so hateful.  The church considered Galileo hateful when he said the Earth orbited the sun. Apparently asking people to change their fundamental belief, and using facts is hateful.  On many occasions Kadizzle has asked the right wingers to explain how he is hateful.  Never has one answered.  Recently Kadizzle had one of these go arounds.  With an old friend Kadizzle was going through the Trump nonsense.  Kadizzle sent the man some straight forward factual information. The response was " You need to quit being hateful".   It occurred to Kadizzle how hateful Trump has been.  Trump actually inspired and condoned violence.  How is it these people cannot see the real thing. 

Turn on the black light

 Have you ever pointed an ultra violet light at something? You see things normal light does not show.  The light has been pointed at every Republican. Now you see what they are, people driven by tax cuts and greed at any price.  Any price means destroying our democracy, lying, allowing Trump to murder a policeman.  You can see every speck of human detritus with a black light.  Now you know who Republicans are. 

A different day

 Yesterday was a perfect day. The sky was crystal clear, no wind, and temperature was perfect.  Not today, looks like clouds, and maybe some rain, such is life.  Kadizzle has as usual lost his mind hoping Trump will be convicted.  Trump will get away with his final crime in office.  The level of stupidity in this country is far greater than anyone could imagine.  As a child Kadizzle thought doctors, and lawyers were actually intelligent moral people. Sorry, it is just not so.  The amazing thing about humans is they can possess some skill like painting, acting, or some other talent, yet be incredibly stupid when it comes to reality.  Some very successful people buy into insane ideas.  Religion is the best proof of this.  People believe total nonsense when it comes to religion. This primes them to believe Trump, Rush Limbaugh, and Fox News.  Maybe if the dead do indeed rise Fox News is right.  Reality is hard to deal with so why not just embrace fantasy.  

Scott Hennen calls to admit he lied.

 Early yesterday morning Scott Hennen called Kadizzle to admit basically he lied. This was amazing.  Hennen could not actually bring himself to admit outright that he just lied.  Instead he fabricated a story.  First, lets review.  The whole thing started when Kadizzle called Hennen's call in radio show.  Kadizzle said he was calling from Arizona.  After the call Scott Hennen said Kadizzle was lying and was not in Arizona, but in Hazen, North Dakota.  The point was to prove Kadizzle was a liar.  Kadizzle wrote several emails to KFYR radio management about the lie and also made several phone calls.  Scott Hennen said someone called him and said they saw Kadizzle in Hazen.  Which was a total fabrication.   It seems poor old Scott is a pathological liar.  On his show yesterday he was speaking to  and defending the My Pillow guy who is a famous liar.  Kadizzle and Hennen had a relatively long phone conversation.  Basically Hennen said lying to stupid people was a good business model and there was no reason to change it.  When you listen to the advertisments on KFYR you can tell who their audience is.  The sponsors are My Pillow, gold scams, credit card protections scams, and erection pills.  Cult members are hopeless they love the excitement of lies.  Trump is a pathological liar of the highest rank. 

Scott Hennen the Liar

 Yesterday I called KFYR radio and spoke to Scott Hennen on his radio show.  I was surprised he let me bombast his lying and his support for Trump. Of course he maintains Trump is innocent. I accused Scott Hennen of lying and being a propagandist for Trump. It was amazing how long Hennen let me speak, usually he cuts me off by going to a commercial or simply hanging up.  After the call was over Hennen said I lied about where I called from.  I am in Roosevelt, Arizona, and that is where I called from.  Hennen must have thought I was calling from North Dakota.  I emailed Hennen and asked him to retract his accusation.  I am sure he will not.  There are endless ways I can prove I called from Arizona.  Hennen has a habit of promoting untruths, conspiracy theories, and any distortion that will support Trump. The sad thing is Hennen has a group of simple minded Hoopleheads in North Dakota that believe him. 

A grueling ebike ride

 Winky cannot stand still and insisted on an adventure yesterday. Kadizzle cooked one up.  We drove the truck with the ebikes about five miles up towards Peter Bigfoots.  With the ebikes unloaded we headed up to an Indian site.   Winky once told Kadizzle ebikes provide no exercise.  Even with electric assist the heart was pounding and all the extra chicken meat around Kadizzles waist was being paid for.  The sandy road went up and down and finally turned into a very steep grade full of baby head cobbles.  When we got near the goal the road got even worse.  After inspecting the site where Kadizzle found a nice piece of pottery with very good markings.  It was a black on white which is rare.  Next we took off to hike on foot on up to the top of the mountain. It is six A. M. Cliff seems to have a kidney stone. Have to take off immediately to take him to the emergency room.  Over and out. 

The People You Meet

 At the soiree yesterday the former captain of a 50 ft Charter catamaran which he also owned swapped sailing stories with Kadizzle and the gang.  Riding through the campground Kadizzle encountered the older couple who originally hailed from Switzerland.  Hans actually did a Swiss yodel for us before he left.  Ken and Rita bought an old aluminum canoe with a place for a little electric motor on it. They had a little adventure exploring the lake. The Swiss were out bike riding when Kadizzle took Hans on a tour of the local trails. His wife Ruth did not want to do the gravel trails and she went back to their camp with Winky to cackle about adventures.  Bob and Liz took off early in the day.  Kadizzle tried to tell Bob he was making a mistake wanting to visit Quartzite.  Quartzite is the place you would give the planet an enema.  Bill did not show up at the soiree today, but Kadizzle had a good conversation with Bill. Bill used to be a machinist that did very precise work.  Among other things he built components for MRI and CAT scan machines.  Bill explained how he got over precision.  Looking at his campsite you could see it was a very successful cure. Junk was strew about everywhere.  One key to life is realizing when enough is enough and what really matters.  One of the great joys is meeting people when we travel.  Every person is a book. Some people are not such good books, but most are very interesting books.  Instead of reading Kadizzle would much rather hear a real person tell about their life and adventure, and there are plenty of travelers in the RV world with endless stories from all over the world. You learn so much interviewing these people. 

Bob Dylan has a song " Every grain of sand".  It is one of Kadizzles favorites. Yesterday Kadizzle hiked up a neat little canyon with Bob and Liz, who are visiting.  As usual we drove up a dry creek bed for miles, and then there was water. The water disappeared right in front of you, but it was flowing freely in the canyon.  What was amazing in the canyon was the flowing water moving the sand.  How did the Earth get carved? It was flowing water and millions and billions of years, but right under our feet you could see the massive amounts of material being moved.  May two or three percent of the moving water was made up of sand.  After a flash flood here you tons of sand moved by water.  There was a lot of material in the Grand Canyon, but the water moved it.  What water can do is truly amazing.  When we look at other planets we can see what water did to them. 

Lets pretend

This morning Kadizzle is going right at the throat of the Republican Party. Some friends are commenting on a talk given about the future of the Republican Party.  Republicans would like to pretend they are about something good. What is good about tax cuts for the rich? That is as simple as it gets. That is all the Republican Party is about. It is about protecting rich people from poor people. No trick is too dirty, too low, or too immoral too achieve their goal. Trump proved it in triplets. Kadizzle is not going to have people dance around sugar coating what Republins are. No decent person would still claim to be a Republican.  Kadizzle does his best to forgive those who do. 

The Rusty 1 is cursed

Kadizzle has had a lot of ornery sailboats, but none compare to the Rusty 1.  Yesterday Kadizzle decided to take Bill out for his first sail.  Of course there would be no wind, so after reaching a top speed of two miles an hour we gave up.  Kadizzle thought the wind might come up so he left the sails on the boat.  Sure enough a strong wind came up.  Kadizzle got Bill and off we went.  When we got to the dock and put the boat in there was no main sheet on the mast.  What could have happened to it?  It must have blown off on the way to the boat ramp. Quickly we got in the truck and retraced our path.  Before we left the boat ramp Kadizzle tied the Rusty 1 to the dock and left it to float alone until we got back.  Making the return trip we found pieces of rope on the road.  We thought we were finding parts of the main halyard on the road, but later it proved to be parts of the jib sheet.  Puzzled we returned to the boat ramp. As we approached the boat ramp we met Tony driving towards us.  We stopped Tony to see if he found the main sheet on the road.  Tony said no, but asked what we did with the Rusty 1.  We told him we left it tied to the boat dock.  Tony said there is no boat there.  Both Bill and Kadizzle thought he was joking.  Driving to the ramp we found there was no boat.  The strong wind blew the boat loose and it was over in the high weeds across the bay.  This meant Kadizzle had to wade out to the boat and try to get in.  Kadizzle managed to get to the boat start the motor and plow out of the weeds.  Finally we got the boat back on the trailer.  The main halyard turned out to be in the boat, but the jib sheet was the victim of the disaster. The whole thing turned out to be a Chinese fire drill.  Maybe it was a good thing in a way.  It was a strong wind to be out on that lake in a small boat.  Maybe one disaster prevented another.  Today the mast will have to come down to replace the main halyard.  This is the same little boat that came off the trailer and cost Kadizzle five hundred dollars. 

Show up and Shut up

 How to succeed,  Show up and shut up.  Kadizzle in his 71 years has been around a few managers, bosses, or whatever you want to call them.  To his amazement he saw one engineer move to the top.  How did he do it? He showed up and shut up.  He never had an original idea, never rocked the boat, and when Kadizzle talked to him he had a hard time staying awake, but he never made any problems.  Of course you can add to the formula a good dose of  lickspittle.  A good show up and shut up guy watches the people who really have some gumption and imagination.  If the people with a pulse do come up with a good idea, then steal it and put your brand on it.  Kadizzle also noticed in his career that fall guys could get ahead.  If you were willing to fall on the sword for the next guy up that was commendable. Kadizzle used to work with a very dishonest guy.  The question was did his superiors know what a crook he was? Of course.  He would do there dirty work, and take the blame if the scheme blew up.  Incompetence should never hold anyone back. That seems to be the case so many times.  Kadizzle thinks of Mick Gross.  Mick played some political games and became head of the phone company in Hazen.  Mick gets named because he is a scoundrel that particularly pisses Kadizzle off.  Mick knew nothing about running a phone coop, but he got himself on the board, then convinced the board to let him be CEO.  Mick had his assistant do all the work, and of course Mick took credit for it.  Mick had no answers for anything.  Kadizzle was going to run for a position on the board and went into Mick's office to get some questions answered.  Every time Kadizzle asked Mick a question he turned to his assistant and said " Answer that for him".  Mick did not have a clew, but he knew how to play the game.  Mick figured out one thing like most scoundrels do, pack the board with your lickspittles.   How do you do that?  Well if you get on the board and agree to just go along with Mick you get to take nice winter vacations at the expense of the coop, and you get some cash besides.  Only one condition, show  up and shut up.  Now, all this brings us to the present.  Nothing, happens, nothing gets done. If you don't do anything nothing can go wrong.  So just let the place crumble around you and you will get promoted. Don't draw attention to anything, don't have an opinion.  That gets us to another important point.  Never show your cards.  When asked about anything never give a straight forward answer.  Always say, " I will look into that" or " We need to think about that".   Remember the Civil War.  Who was that General that would never go into battle?  Was it McClellan?  He was winning as long as he did not get in any battles.  Kadizzle has always like the Bible quote " The meek shall inherit the Earth".   The Earth the meek will inherit is a mess.  It is a mess because of the meek.  The meek were the people who stood there with their thumb up their *** and did nothing, said nothing, and just watched.  The meek were the best supporters of Trump even if they did not vote for him.  Their doing nothing got Trump elected.  So here we are once more being robbed by the one percent.  They know how to play fools.  If you try to tax them just shout socialism.  It is as simple as that. 

The soiree

Community is an interesting concept. Communities develop.  Living the traveling life you see communities develop.  Down below us in the Coyote campground a bunch of identical campers pulled in.  Slowly these people came together and formed a traveling community.  The Forest Service volunteers have a little community.  On most days around three everyone meets at the Earth Module.  Social distancing we sit outside and shoot the breeze.  Yesterday Helen showed up. Helen works on the range.  The range is the vast holdings of the Forest Service which ranchers rent.  There is a group of people in the Forest Service that manage the range.  The usual group is Bill, Ken and Rita, Kadizzle, Cliff, and of course Winky.  We discuss a little of the days news, some Forest Service gossip, and the events of the days.  Helen has been working in California so she had to give a report on the California fires.  One of the greatest things about our life style is the people we meet.  We always get to know new people, and we are constantly keeping up with old traveling friends we have met.  The internet keeps everyone in touch.  The vast amount of information one can get from traveling people is amazing. You can find out all the secrets of any area. 

Impossible

 Kadizzle likes studying the sites of native Americans, but, and it is a big but.  You cannot get anything done simply on Forest Service land without an archaeology study.  Our old friend Dave died when he fell from a ladder a couple months ago. The trail crew wants to memorialize Dave with a bench overlooking the lake.  Seems real simple, but just to put a bench in the ground is a massive paperwork undertaking.  As a trail crew regulations become a real mess.  The most insane are the wilderness regulations. When we work on trails in the wilderness, we cannot use anything but ancient tools.  This means a tree that could be removed from the trail with a chainsaw in minutes will take an hour with an old fashioned buck saw.  To some extent this is a good regulation. Who wants to hear chain saws when they are in the " Wilderness"? Like all laws this could use some tuning.  If we were allowed for one or two months in the spring to use mechanized equipment, we could accomplish so much.  Of course when there is a forest fire all bets are off, chainsaws are fine, helicopters, four wheelers, you name it.  Common sense is not something well tolerated by the federal government.  

This all bring up an incident back in the days when Kadizzle was a surface coal miner.  Some brilliant bureaucrat came up with the idea mining companies should only be able to blast four hours a day.  This was to give some comfort to people living near large surface mines.  In the Eastern United States it is the overburden that has to be blasted.  The overburden may be one hundred feet thick solid rock.  To load the blast hole may take three days.  Once the holes are loaded one massive blast takes place.  However, in North Dakota the coal is blasted, not the overburden.  To keep the process moving you have to blast a couple times a day with small blast to break up the coal.  The Mine Health and Safety Administration would bring our operation to a halt if we cannot blast all day long.  The mine inspector told Kadizzle he had to publish a blast schedule saying which four hours we would blast.  Kadizzle came up with a plan so we could blast for eight hours.  Kadizzle published a schedule that said we would blast every other 15 minutes starting at 8 A.M.  That meant we would never be delayed more than 15 minutes.  It added up to four hours.  The inspected did not know what to do.  That is the nature of stupidity.  Sometimes there is a way to beat it.  One major problem with any law is it make make very good sense in one part of the world and be insane in another. 

Another nice Day.

Everyone awoke early and Kadizzle drove the trail crew up on the mountain.  After leaving the gang Kadizzle came back and put the ebike in the truck. This time Kadizzle drove to the west end of the Cottonwood trail and left the truck for the crew to drive back in the afternoon when they finished their hike from the East end.  Kadizzle had a nice ride back to the lake on the ebike.  Must have reached 80 degrees here today.  Could not imagine this place in summer heat.  Arizona is suffering from one of the worst droughts on record. 

Got some errands done including hauling ice.  The flat planes are going crazy today. Two of them are practicing.  Suppose the helicopters will be playing war games on the lake tonight. Always trying to promote the place Kadizzle just finished taking a couple on a tour of all our bike paths. Too many people in Arizona just don't know this place exist. 

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Who is the real cookie thief?

 This is as simple as it gets. Republicans convince working people the poor are after their cookies while the rich rob them blind.