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As I hope you would suppose, I was a good kid. I was confirmed into the church. I went to Sunday School every week and Bible School every summer. I was in Indian Guides. Cub Scouts. Webelos. Boy Scout. I was an Eagle Scout at 13 and consistently made good grades in school. All of this was tacitly expected of me, as was the fact that I attended, and paid for, a higher education.
A week ago, a woman in my neighborhood drove full-speed into the side of my car, as shown below a few minutes after it happened. This weekend, I’m picking up a brand new, identical car from the Tesla factory. How could this be? Isn’t a cataclysm like this supposed to be more awful and drawn-out? I’ve been thinking about that.
I’m almost done with my third rewrite of my novel. This thing is a beast.
Speaking of diamonds……….it’s pretty amazing (and very rare) that technology can beat nature so handily. It takes a couple of hours to make the same diamond that takes the universe a couple of billion years to finish. The hundreds of billions of dollars “invested” in these things over the past century has been about as shrewd as going long the Japanese Yen. Well done, De Beers!
