By Jim Dickens February 10 2025
Well the start of the new year has been a series of illogical events small all the way to existential. Over the last week during a trip England.
Small
Went to see the ABBA Voyage experience in London. It features avatars of the ABBA musicians created by holographic means. They look very real as they dance, sing, talk to the audience and play instruments in three dimensions. The stage, light show, sound system, etc are as good as I have ever seen. I highly recommend it. After the first song, I noticed we cheered and applauded. At the end, we cheered until we got an encore. I remember feeling this is odd we are cheering for holograms.
Just after lunch and before catching a plane I had my blood pressure taken and it matched my fitness goal of 10 points lower after having it measured 3 weeks earlier in the morning calm before eating. It was odd and perhaps a bad goal.
Medium
We decided to vacation in England mostly outside at the end of January and beginning of February. You awake in darkness and try and get some activity in before it gets dark again 9 hours later. There is a chill in the air that pervades whether inside or out and seems to defy the actual temperature. I guess we were visiting our son and daughter. We must really like them.
Existential
Newly introduced United States government policy is going to stimulate oil and gas production and resist sustainable energy production. Additionally, the government is actively removing pollution restrictions. If this continues the problems for future generations including my children will dramatically increase. It’s illogical and the governmental explanations do not make sense. Meanwhile, the governments in Europe and Asia head in the logical direction.
Lori and I are off to San Francisco next to see other kids we really like with better weather.
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