home on the range

I finally got Internet at home! After decades of only doing online work at the office, I'm on cable broadband and can operate more efficiently. More business in SLO , but Cayucos is the other direction. I'll go to Cayucos most days, but not always first thing in the AM.

I'm already reading and writing more in the evenings. My remaining cat likes that--she has a nice bed on the dining table (which I never use to eat on) and offers purring encouragement and a pithy comments from time to time. When the time change occurred this year it just seemed WRONG to work at the office for 2+ hours after the sun went down. I run in the AM now, so there's no racing the sunset each day to break up the afternoon.

This schedule has produced real progress on the screenplay I started over a year ago. It sat idle for about 5 months, but is moving ahead every day now.

I finished Drive by Dan Pink a couple days ago. Digesting what the meaning of his simple messages might be to organized real estate. That's one of the problems. Real estate is organized, but for whom? Not the Buyers and Sellers. The underlying problem with standardization is that it suppresses evolution. The entity creating the standardization controls change, but that change isn't driven by market forces or the best interests of the Buyers and Sellers. It's driven by the same entities that created the standards in the first place. Those entities, like all organizational entities, have only ONE primary goal. To sustain their control, or better still, expand their control. There is no secondary goal.

That's what happens in Washington, Sacramento and the PTA. It's a flaw that humanity has yet to solve--the planet is the largest stage and we're not doing well with that either. The climate is headed in a very bad direction, but the world's various organizations must have their power tipping opportunities on the way to an ineffectual attempt to extend the planet's ability to sustain human life. It's like being an observer in a leaky row boat equipped with a bucket for bailing, but sinking slowly into the still dark waters as the other occupants tenaciously discuss the political implications of the bailing process.