Nobody gets out of this circus alive! February 6-7/26 Snow Report.

How does death change your perspective?

…perhaps circus is the wrong word. It’s the theatre of the absurd. I hate circuses, even if they provide bread (I’m supposed to desire bread and circuses as a proletariat of the empire, eh). Fucking clowns make my skin crawl. My meditation program has had a lot to say about death and addressing one’s mortality.

When my mind has been particularly troubled, 😕, I obtained relief and perspective with sleep-casts and a pair of quality noise-cancelling earphones.

Wikiquotes has a plethora of musings that I get comfort (and yes, joy) from… about death. And they are 100% religion free 🆓 !!!

If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives [sic] would be completely different. If a person knows that he will die in a half hour, he certainly will not bother doing trivial, stupid, or, especially, bad things during this half hour. Perhaps you have half a century before you die — what makes this any different from a half hour? ~ Leo Tolstoy (((source: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy ; verified 11:40 a.m. EST, Feb. 4/26; passes the sniff test as this isn’t a fucking academic blog-journal; it’s all about Paul Neem living his life well & pissing off the high powers)))).

Neem persona non grata? send up a flare to get ‘im home to port.

At 2:50 a.m. Friday morning, I had to get up and write this down. What were at least 3 songs that could be used as beacons for my love to find me if I was gone, or lost at sea, or whatever whiteout condition you can imagine.

(a) Indigo Girls. “Blood And Fire”. 4 minutes 37 seconds. Writer: Amy Ray.

(b) Fleetwood Mac. “Songbird”. 3 minutes 20 seconds. Writer: Christine McVie. Rumours.

(c) Cowboy Junkies. The Trinity Sessions. The entire album? If I have to chose, it’ll be “Misguided Angel”. 4 minutes 58 seconds. Writers: Margo Timmins, Michael Timmins. Only 1 track — that’s not enough. I’m itching to relisten to the entire CD again!

Wikipedia contributors. (2025, November 8). Indigo Girls (album). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 07:54, February 6, 2026, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Indigo_Girls_(album)&oldid=1321120840 {{{{no no, it’s 3 a.m. Eastern Standard Time, not GMT}}}}}

Wikipedia contributors. (2026, February 3). Rumours (album). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 07:59, February 6, 2026, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rumours_(album)&oldid=1336306131 {{{{what the hell is keeping me up and fixating on songs?! And what if this song attracts unexpected attention or if the void stares back at me?}}}}}

Wikipedia contributors. (2026, January 29). The Trinity Session. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 08:08, February 6, 2026, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Trinity_Session&oldid=1335510233 {{{{Hells bells, I could be lead back from the brink from several other tracks on that groundbreaking and HAUNTING creation. “Misguided Angel” could be replaced by “I Don’t Get It“, “Blue Moon Revisited...”, “Lover Is To Bury“, and/or “200 More Miles“. I stopped dead in my tracks the first time I discovered this album, about 10 years ago. It’s an unusual 1988 Toronto creation}}}}}

Bonus tracks… naturally:

• “Echos“. Pink Floyd.
• “Wish You Were Here“. Pink Floyd.
• “You’ve Got To Funkifize“. Or, “Soul Vaccination“. Tower Of Power.
• “Goldberg Variations” (((the version where our CBC lunatic slows down the pace and hums along))). Glenn Gould.
• “Unaccompanied Cello Suite Number 1, in G major, BMV 1007, I. Prelude“. Johann Sebastian Bach. {{{{{Yo Yo Ma’s rendition, but a much earlier version… done for CBS back in the early 1980s. He slows the tempo right down, and he plays it with his gonads!}}}}}

3:35 a.m. EST, Friday morning. Okay, I can go back to bed… being led by yowling cats. Sigh.

friday, february 6-7, 2026 report.

We were able to celebrate TS’s birthday with lots of foot massages, and high-octane lunch, and a cake made by Little Buck Bakery.

If you don’t click on the image for details and meta-captions, well then, I just can’t help you be happy.

After our RMT treatment, we took a detour to look at Georgian Bay. It’s frozen over and we’re hoping it’ll reduce the snow-lake-effect.

I’m also hoping the replacement foam pads will eventually arrive, so I can re-commission these 2 workhorses. TS has promised me that she’ll knit an accompanying headband for the Sony cans. Alan Hardman, thank you for doing the nuts-and-bolts repairs on these 2 ‘phones. I’d like to give these Sony-Senheisser cans another lease on life — before they melt away to nothing due to my cranium skin chemistry.

Yep, you’ll need to click on the image for its full detail and meta-captions.

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