Summer goes by too fast. Mornings also go by fast. Evenings in the summer also go by fast. Winter evenings go by slow – the analogy is that winter evenings are like treading water.

Interesting how analogies are generally related to what we are doing. For example, I went swimming today and all I did after talking to my friend Cathy was tread water. I touched one wall, after treading, then swim back the other way, keeping my head in the water. This is because I am concerned about throwing the vertebrae in my neck out.

I spent some time in the hot tub. I wish I could turn up the heat because after being in the water for thirty seconds or so, it starts feeling cold. I was in the hot tub twice. The first time I joined five older and one younger males. They had nothing to say to me. I wonder if it’s this way in the wild, with the male and female walruses. The one difference, and this is a big one, is that walruses do not get into hot tubs. I also don’t think, if given the option, that they’d get into a thermal pool.

I would love to go to Iceland, and in addition to spending time with the horses, spend time in the thermal pools. I’d also like to check out the penis museum in the city who’s name I can’t spell.

The quasi swim did make my back feel better.

I distributed a lot of books today. This was not done in my absence. Rather than fret, I just did it. I keep thinking that someday I am going to have a staff, and it will be comprised of very motivated individuals. It’s odd, most of our board members have been older woman, with Robert being the exception. I wonder if young people are passionate about reading.

Generation Z is a different generation. I hope that when they come of age that they are more compassionate and thoughtful and caring than us boomers.

I read an article in the New Yorker about the way Generation Z individuals think. It was written by a college professor, and his focus was on the students’ reliance on AI. Reading this, I realized that teaching such individuals would be extremely difficult.

I like the way I think. I like the fact that I am not afraid to problem solve, particularly when writing. I am not sure right now about the direction that I’m heading in with my partnership chapter. I might bust it up and have it be a part of the preceding three parts of Shelf Life.

I am nearing the time in which I need to print up Shelf Life in its entirety and start filling in the gaps. I am dreading this because I suspect that this is going to be difficult. Right now the entire ms is an, I did this and then I did that. I need to flesh it out, and provide more details about the setting, Palmer, and about the books that have been surfacing. I want to show that what I’ve been finding has to a certain degree shaped my thinking.

Next: 200. 7/24/25: Certainty and Uncertainty