Lizards, Peppers and Flies
Lizards, peppers and flies: summer on the patio. AI is not magic, just powerful tech. A cleaning smell that opens an old memory, the smell of rain in the desert, and the monk versus the warrior.
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JULY 25, 2025
Lizards, peppers and flies. That's what Summer on the patio is like. Hot sun. Blue skies. White fluffy clouds. There are levels and channels. To life and all things.
AI is not magic. Just powerful tech. Apply it to difficult and interesting problems.
I was cleaning. I think it was the smell, something between ammonia and chlorine, was it vinegar I had used and some cleaner spray and the smell reminded me, transported me to a memory of being at my Grandma's house in Germany and the smell when she would do her hair in curlers and I could see it vividly and Mom was there, she always helped Oma. And the recent smell of rain. That smell it has a name. Since I don't know it let's call it the smell of rain, that is a powerful smell. It also gave me some feeling of relief. Even though in the desert here you can have that smell and just miss the drops of rain falling over a neighbor mountain.
What must it be like to be a door to door Jehovah's witness. The monk, versus the warrior. The warrior must train, but so too the monk and yet on the surface things look very different.
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