Trying a new pen. The package advertising claims it will not bleed through paper. The pen feels OK, a little busy with decorative ledges close to the nib. Hoping my registration numbers arrive today. I've been in Point Pleasant a long while. If this pen works I'll gain 100 pages in this journal at 1 cent per sheet. look at me, I'm cheap. The savings will just about pay on fifth of the pen's cost.
So far I have not been impressed with the effectiveness of a yellow, coiled, wristband I bought yesterday at the hardware store. Its supposed to repel mosquitos. It does not seem to work, but I'll give it a one week trial. I should not bleed to death in a week.
It seems to be a day for trials, trying this pen, this wristband and being tried myself as I await the favor of a governmental notice. Also a breeze trying to become a wind.
The Point Pleasant Launch Park is built atop the old town dump. When the dump filled, it was covered with soil and seeded with grass. The trees surrounding the dump have spread their seedling and it is tre beautique. I like it.
I fell asleep shortly after noon and awoke at 2:30. It is sprinkling now and the breeze did grow to be a light wind. Enough wind to pull one of the knots loose on the raft. Weather overhead is moving Northeast while the wind is shoving North near the water. That means the pressure center is to the south of me and slipping most of the storm past me. Water has fallen 1 and 1/2 feet since last night. Very humid and hot, well over 80 degrees.
Why do male dominated societies restrict women?
It is not part of a natural order. Restricted women are dependent on males who are then forced to expend more effort exploiting other men and women. Such seems socially self-defeating.
(on the backside of the first page, I can see the ink from the front side, but it is not disruptive.)
Busses filled with patrons from the riverboat tour are passing my site. The drivers honk. I don't feel like a tourist attraction. I spent much of my life serving people, while I hid my real self from them. Now, I don't hide and I don't serve. I am. I live for this moment and not for tomorrow's expectations. If I die , I die living this moment also.
Good night. Actually, good noon. I delayed writing for several days. Thinking about simple changes to my raft design so homeless people can have one.
Make a square with scrap wood about 18" by 18" or cut a piece of plywood about that size, now make one more. Now connect the two squares with willows, vines, sticks, strips of wood on three sides to make a cage-like open at the top longish box. 6 or 8 feet long is good. Fill the box with recycled plastic bottles. I recommended the 18x18 dimension because soda bottles at 4 inch diameters and one gallon milk or water jugs at 8" on a side will both fit inside. Any other size bottles will also fit and you are not concerned with a perfect filling of every inch of space. Attach two or three lengths of sturdy wood, 2x2, 2x3 or maybe 2x4's to connect the top of our box and to give a solid base for attaching the decking. A box 8 feet long will provide about 900 pounds of flotation for a raft. Two boxes with an 8 foot deck nailed to the top of them will support 1800 pounds of people and stuff. Now build up the sides from the deck to make a small house. Attaching these rafts together as units lets the raft house become longer or wider as desired. The crate type boxes do not have to be anywhere near watertight, because the flotation is from the plastic bottles.
The deck of planks, plywood or bamboo need not be seamless as water from waves or wakes will drain right out and save you and your feet a drenching in turbulence. This kind of house is mobile, can be poled rowed, motored or even sailed from place to place. Oh, my an ever changing front yard.
If' you decide to anchor somewhere for a longer time, a string of such pontoons linked together with chains or ropes will make a breakwater to control the waves streaming toward your house. Such pontoons will even float nets able to catch or to contain fish.
So far I have not been impressed with the effectiveness of a yellow, coiled, wristband I bought yesterday at the hardware store. Its supposed to repel mosquitos. It does not seem to work, but I'll give it a one week trial. I should not bleed to death in a week.
It seems to be a day for trials, trying this pen, this wristband and being tried myself as I await the favor of a governmental notice. Also a breeze trying to become a wind.
The Point Pleasant Launch Park is built atop the old town dump. When the dump filled, it was covered with soil and seeded with grass. The trees surrounding the dump have spread their seedling and it is tre beautique. I like it.
I fell asleep shortly after noon and awoke at 2:30. It is sprinkling now and the breeze did grow to be a light wind. Enough wind to pull one of the knots loose on the raft. Weather overhead is moving Northeast while the wind is shoving North near the water. That means the pressure center is to the south of me and slipping most of the storm past me. Water has fallen 1 and 1/2 feet since last night. Very humid and hot, well over 80 degrees.
Why do male dominated societies restrict women?
It is not part of a natural order. Restricted women are dependent on males who are then forced to expend more effort exploiting other men and women. Such seems socially self-defeating.
(on the backside of the first page, I can see the ink from the front side, but it is not disruptive.)
Busses filled with patrons from the riverboat tour are passing my site. The drivers honk. I don't feel like a tourist attraction. I spent much of my life serving people, while I hid my real self from them. Now, I don't hide and I don't serve. I am. I live for this moment and not for tomorrow's expectations. If I die , I die living this moment also.
Make a square with scrap wood about 18" by 18" or cut a piece of plywood about that size, now make one more. Now connect the two squares with willows, vines, sticks, strips of wood on three sides to make a cage-like open at the top longish box. 6 or 8 feet long is good. Fill the box with recycled plastic bottles. I recommended the 18x18 dimension because soda bottles at 4 inch diameters and one gallon milk or water jugs at 8" on a side will both fit inside. Any other size bottles will also fit and you are not concerned with a perfect filling of every inch of space. Attach two or three lengths of sturdy wood, 2x2, 2x3 or maybe 2x4's to connect the top of our box and to give a solid base for attaching the decking. A box 8 feet long will provide about 900 pounds of flotation for a raft. Two boxes with an 8 foot deck nailed to the top of them will support 1800 pounds of people and stuff. Now build up the sides from the deck to make a small house. Attaching these rafts together as units lets the raft house become longer or wider as desired. The crate type boxes do not have to be anywhere near watertight, because the flotation is from the plastic bottles.
The deck of planks, plywood or bamboo need not be seamless as water from waves or wakes will drain right out and save you and your feet a drenching in turbulence. This kind of house is mobile, can be poled rowed, motored or even sailed from place to place. Oh, my an ever changing front yard.
If' you decide to anchor somewhere for a longer time, a string of such pontoons linked together with chains or ropes will make a breakwater to control the waves streaming toward your house. Such pontoons will even float nets able to catch or to contain fish.
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