About not working

 

I have lots and lots of work orders and some even paid me advances, and here I am doing nothing. Thinking about how to avoid delaying. Maybe I should stop working but then, what? I have no hobbies or love interests. 

So, start working. 

Sunny November

 

I am somewhere on the map and is sunny and hot. Europe is fortunate that it does not need Russian oil for heating.  Chronologically we are in mid-November, and should be cold. I have no use for half of my wardrobe. 

Giacomo Casanova

 After swimming for an hour, moved to the jacuzzi to relax. In front of me was sitting a horrible old woman, with incredible makeup and hair. She smiled at me, and soon started to dance in the hot water, DANCING!, "eyeing me up" and approaching her feet to mine. THE HORROR!  THE HORROR! 

The event reminded me of an anecdote of Giacomo Casanova when he was invited to visit a wealthy Countess, and she expected him on the recamier with open legs. Casanova was a Venetian gigolo who made his living from cards, fortune telling and servicing lecherous ladies, but he was so deeply horrified that he recorded the incident in his autobiography. 

Confused

Hours I am sitting here and following US news, and cannot make sense of them. It is all a distraction, I need to do some work too! The American elections as shown in the media is unanimous: the Democrats won because the Trump avalanche was stopped. I see that the Republicans won more positions, so the media is biased or just lying? It is something of a mystery to me. The cryptocurrencies collapsed, losing 70-80% of their market value, why? NASDAQ is up 7%, something I never experienced nor expected. Maybe people are selling crypto and buying stock. Here we are going to have a new government, and people are afraid. There is talk of Dery (a convicted thief) taking the Treasure, and Ben Gvir (a Kahanist rabble-rouser) getting the Police ministry. It is difficult for me to concentrate and work. I am feeling old and tired. 

Ill: Confucius. 

Peres' Dream Coming Along

 

There was some kind of regional climate conference and Israel's President Herzog attended and talked to other leaders. Big deal, we are starting t be accepted here.

Jordan and Israel signed a letter of intent to exchange electricity for desalted water. The solar field in Jordan is an Israeli project. We are investing in Jordan. Slowly they are coming along. 

The small colored man at the left seems to be al-Sisi, Egypt's ruler. I am not sure, because in other pics he appears almost white. They may have forgotten to filter this picture.  

The Truth about Humans

Our twin variety, the Neanderthals, lived on meat alone. Like jackals and wolves. The human stomach has a pH of 2 and can digest rotting meat like other scavengers, say vultures. Even the sapiens variety prefers meat to vegetables.

Everywhere humans moved, game and large-bodied animals on land or in the sea worth hunting,  soon disappeared. They were exterminated. Nothing can survive where there are humans. They are everywhere. 

Humans are naked and defenseless and have no big teeth or strong paws. Cannot outrun or overpower any animal. Humans hunt in groups like wolves, but they are less disciplined. It was this absolute inferiority that forced famished humans to develop artificial weapons, and about ten thousand years ago, when they had finished all game, to eat undigestible grasses like teosinte and Triticum and then cultivate them. But humans did not turn into peaceful ruminants. The latest development is the settling of Mars. Already two tribes are exploring and mapping it. Anything out there must see itself as doomed.   

Potash market mystery

 

The graph shows Nutrien's 14% loss today. It is worrying why a very stable product - fixed production potential and fixed demand - can suffer such variations. It never goes under the minimum but a less-than-expected quarter profit (still enormous) can decrease its price by 14% or maybe 30%. I don't understand, have to think why a temporary disappointment can do this.