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Definitely at a sort of "blah" kind of day/mood. I have never been all that patriotic so I don't feel the need to celebrate being "Murcan". Years ago, fireworks used to bug me, but my adverse reaction to explosions earned while being an infantryman on another continent has now subsided into mild distaste. The fourth is now just another day.

Not even thinking about the workings and organization of consciousness right now. I decided recently to finish reading the "Harry Potter" series that I abandoned in the early "00's because I allowed my children to read them in step with the age of the protagonists of the books and the two maniacs who I was raising. I stopped reading at book three (age:13) because this is the age when I found my children most irritating and when after beginning to read book four, I felt the same way about the characters of the books.

I finished the read a couple of days ago and have been spending my time thinking about what it is that makes me like/dislike a book(series?). Mostly, the question remains unanswered. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to my tastes.

But it has been nice to get away from the (over?)emphasis on the nature of consciousness (what I refer to as "soul") that spent too much time in my head over the past couple of months. I am wondering if I retreated to an unanswerable problem like that because of my despair concerning making sense of the contradictory information being peddled about the state of the world. To tell you the truth, in hindsight, it looks as though I just swapped one unanswerable for a different unanswerable question.

But, being retired, I suppose that it serves as a decent hobby. I have a friend who's retirement is heavily focused on golf. Which, to be honest, is yet another choice in the "unanswerable question" in life's chinese menu. Once I realized that, I decided that I needed to support his quest as well.