Ecologies

 

Pulled the battery out of Bessie and hooked it up to my shiny little 1 amp battery charger day before yesterday.  I tend to think that trickle charging is better for a battery than fast charges, but patience is a virtue and time is the price that you pay as it is 36+ hours later and it still isn't topped up.  Hope that this solves the annoying car alarm problem that keeps me from using her.  If it is true, then I have to put my brain down on why she isn't maintaining charge.

Work is work.  I am no longer certain that the stay at home/quarantine idea was the best way to approach this.  But, I am aware that a lack of certainty on my part doesn't at all preclude the idea that it was the right way.  Hell of a steep price though.  

Screed:

I think that the Rona is a reminder that we are doing our level best to ignore.  A reminder of the environmental damage that our planet spawns all kinds of things that we didn't think were important in our quest for material self-fulfillment.  We have seriously changed the environment, probably not for the better.  Rona is just the first of many things that will come out of that change.  

But there are other ecologies.  What we refer to as the "economy" is an ecology itself.  Rona seems to have crossed over the line from the natural ecology of the planet to the ecology that most of humans live in.  Now, I am certain that there are those out there that will find my near-sacrilegious use of the term offensive, but the technological/industrial ecology is where we all live. 

But Rona has shown that the human-developed ecology that we reside in with our jobs and restaurants and stores really is much more fragile that the natural ecology that we built it on top of.  Rona is proving to us that nature can adapt faster than we can, and we are appearing to prove to Rona that our ecology is more fragile than the one she came out of.