Journalling daily has its challenges. Subject matter can be an issue when your mind has been on repeated loops the last couple of days. Not much adventure surrounding the Gangwer household with iced roads and days filled with packing. I did manage to get out of the house yesterday afternoon. Took my daughter with me to Spartanburg to look at camera lenses and then lunch. Did you know that there’s only one camera shop left in the upstate? Within at least another 100 miles of its nearest competitor.

Wild.

We went downtown and had lunch at my buddy’s spot Delaneys. Kevin’s a swell guy and yes I would drive 40 minutes to support his biz. I like downtown Spartanburg it reminds me of Greenville in the mid 90s. I can breathe up there. No hate on my friends with businesses downtown Greenville. Crowds are good for you. Just not me.

I’ve watched a lot of drama with the regional meteorologists over the last storm of the century.

I’m not a meteorologist. Not by a long shot. Can’t tell you a damn thing about it other than current temperatures when I’m standing outside.

But

Why do we need personality for weather forecasts? I’m not an AI can replace anyone person but this would be an appropriate situation where AI puts out the forecasts and we run with it. Meteorologists aren’t standing outside in shaman garb, eyes rolled back in their head, teeth clicking while staring at the clouds “BIG STORM COME TOMORROW”

They’re reading and interpreting data to incorporate into predicting weather patterns.

Am I wrong with thinking this can be done without the play by play to help increase viewers to see the next pop up ad?

It’s not the meteorologist. It’s not that half the time they aren’t accurate. It doesn’t bother me. As someone who tries to spend as much time as I can outdoors I’m appreciative of the effort. I don’t take my chances in inclement weather if I don’t have to.

It’s the sensationalism

They, like news organizations like to provoke emotions by using scare tactics and bullet points emphasized with words like “crippling” “devastating” “horrifying” “possible mass casualties”

Listen

Fuck off with this shit. No one needs this right now the country it’s already wound tight.

I’m not saying don’t listen to them. Not saying the weather can’t go to shit.

Weather shouldn’t be used as a sales pitch to boost fear. And that’s exactly what a lot of them are doing.

Also don’t live your life to react to every situation that comes your way. Planning is paramount.

I’ve got Carolina Chocolate Drops on my headphones. It’s been years.

Justice fans don’t come for me you know I’m right.

You never realize how much shit you nail, tape, glue to the walls of your home until you have to take them down. We have a ridiculous amount of stuff.

Our belongings are obese. Obtrusive. Why do I need all of this? The energy of “look what I bought ten years ago and have no attachment to but it pairs well with that chair I don’t sit in.”

I want to get rid of all of it.

But

I won’t

Some old energy keeps me intact

Time to go back to work. Can’t remember the last time I spent three days off with no outdoor activities.

Peace