Today was a pretty good day. Knocked a couple of items off the to-do list, had some good meals, got some air outside. Did a walkaround the house and yard. The pond is a mess. Lots of fallen branches and even a good-sized tree in the water. The beaver’s dam is completely gone and the level of the water has fallen a couple of feet. The wear and tear on the external woodwork of the house is moderate. Some fenceposts will need repair. Camera Girl was raking in her gardens, removing the eleven billion oak leaves that migrate in from the forest over the winter. I was looking at the poison ivy vines that I still need to pull up (gotta get going on that!). Saw a few birds and a frog and way too many flies for my liking. Planted some seeds in indoor planters. Spring is right on schedule. Good start to the day.
Then I read some of the news items. Wow! The world truly is run by scoundrels and idiots. Some of them, like Joe Biden, are both. They’re running the country into the ground and doing anything and everything to try and point the finger of blame away from themselves. The Ukraine, Hunter’s laptop, gas prices, food prices, a coming recession. It’s a litany of bad news. That’s a let-down. But even bad news has its silver lining. I noticed that Biden’s job approval rating sank five points over the last couple of days so his attempts to misdirect the blame for inflation to the Ukraine crisis hasn’t worked. That’s a plus. The New York Times has admitted what every intelligent person already knew, that the Hunter Biden laptop was legitimate. Seems like the powers that be are preparing to deep six Dementia Joe. That’s kind of good. Sure, we still have to figure out how to get someone better in the White House but at least torpedoing a disaster like Biden is definitely a win. You see, the news isn’t all bad.
So, shrugging off the news I get to work on my writing and turn out a post for the site and bang out a thousand words of fiction. Now the day is back on course. I look at the website stats for the last thirty days and I notice that DuckDuckGo has surpassed Google as the largest organic search source for the site. And some of the other search engines are also catching up to Google. This is very good news. Google ignores all of my political and current events posts and only shows photography and review posts. Obviously, that’s a problem. DuckDuckGo has been featuring my political posts but even my review and photography stuff is breaking through there too. All very good. Still running into delays on the web business stuff I’m working on but it shouldn’t take more than a week or so to straighten that stuff out. So, the weekend is ending on a high note. And next week should be excellent. Forecast is for every day from now on to be at least in the fifties with nighttime temps in the thirties. Not exactly balmy but with a little luck no ice or snow on the horizon.
In the quiet of the evening, I have a chance to reflect on the day. So, the world is what it is, but if you look at it the right way you can find the bright side and go about your business trying to improve your little corner of the world. You do your work. Fix the things that need fixing. Make some progress. Earn your daily bread. Socialize with the people you care about. Interact with everyone else as well as you can. And end the day with the world slightly better than when you found it in the morning. And if you have a hard time finding the improvement then make something up. Celebrate the perfectly ordinary. Reward yourself by playing your favorite old movie or whatever entertainment you prefer, make a bowl of popcorn and open a beer or whatever you drink and enjoy an hour and a half just because you need something to lift your spirits. End the day on a positive note and look forward to something good coming along tomorrow. And if it doesn’t come along, go out and find it. Make your own good luck. Search for the good. Search for good people. Enjoy your life. That’s what it’s for.