Ever since January 1, 2008, these Probaway posts have come every day, with skips only occurring a couple of times when there was an internet problem. The posts have gone up when I was sick with a cold, or when I was on a trip with no internet access, and had to find publicly open portals. But, last night and tonight, I haven’t had any new ideas that sparked me enough to do a post. There is still an hour of time to write a post, and I do have many ideas that are goading me, but the adaptive energy needed to pursue them isn’t here. Last night the usual monthly break was taken and a Tao post went up, but it wasn’t enough to restore my vigor, and I was wondering what is happening. The biggest thing that is different about the last few days is the effort to cope with weeds around my house. We kept waiting for the weather not to drop below freezing so the garden could be planted, but that didn’t happen; however, the weeds loved the weather and grew rapidly, and then it got hot and they exploded. The weather is now hot and is forecast to get record-breaking hot over the next five days.

A lot of people around here cope with weeds by paving over their area, others by putting wood chips a couple of inches deep which prevents weeds, but I prefer a natural environment, including the weeds, but this year that strategy turned into a disaster. I pulled a ton of weeds, perhaps more, out of the ground. I don’t mind hard physical work, but somehow it was meaningless work, and fighting against my own principles of cooperating with nature. So, I am writing this pathetic bit of nonsense. Part of the problem is Pinterest, Microsoft, and others who are obviously tracking me and giving me popups that they know I will be interested in, and so I’ve been distracted by my own interests, but they interfere with my life.

The media is distracting me, and probably you too, from controlling our lives by targeting us with interesting stuff they know we like and therefore it is hard to ignore. I can easily ignore foods I like by keeping them out of sight, but I can’t ignore popups because they won’t go away, and I can’t make them go away. Today’s latest one pops up some interesting things when I do ordinary word processing operations, and it takes several clicks of their stuff to get back to doing whatever it was that I was doing, which sometimes has been hidden under their stuff. “You’ve got 56 new Pins waiting for you. New ideas for you to check out!” There is no X, and only a Close which sometimes goes directly to their site.

I could go on and on, but instead I’m going to take a warm bath.