2008 - "Not Much Longer"


By that I mean it'll soon be 2009. I just came upstairs at 6.30 a.m. and made a cup of tea after lying awake for an hour and a half. An odd 90 minutes really - I found myself letting my mind roam free.
Some of it went thus:
1. What will happen to all the mess of family tree stuff I've accumulated?

2. The peoples of N. and S. America didn't know the Romans existed until long after said Romans were all dust. Ha! So much for ruling the world?

3. All the people of the world have ONE common mother and father. Now there's a family tree.
Like it or not, we're all cousins. All of us, Moslem, Christian, Atheist, Chinese, Black, White, Hungry, Rich, Ugly, Beautiful, Cliff ..... all cousins.

4. Is anybody running all this? As the world seems about to collapse into economic oblivion is there a group who really have any control?

5. Britain really did run the world - sort of - once upon a time. Just for that while we humans did almost have some sort of control of events - sort of.

6. I think America nearly did - they certainly thought they did. Now? Now we're at the beginning of a hairy ride which has no known, as yet, destination.

7. Given the universe's vastenss and our "tinyness," does anything really matter?

8. That universe? Is it as we see it? Are we alone? Surely not! We can't be that special. What would it be like to be interlectually a hundred times brighter than we are? Ooooh! Now there's a thought.

9. Alex, MarcAndre, Ian, Emily ..... where are you going? What will you do or not do?

10. Which of them, if any, will spark the next generation? There are 10 known generations of Huttons! 1700 to to 2008. That's three hundred years. 1700!!!!!!!! Doesn't that just knock your socks off? What were things like then? If we could go back! If they could come forward! I'm sure they'd suvive 'now' better than we'd survive 'then'.

11. Is there a god? Will I ever finish my railway? Was Meski the world's best cat? Is there life after death? ..................... Probably only Meski gets a "Yes"


This is the 74th entry in this blog.
Kim claims to look at it every day. Mitch says he reads it. Vivian does - but she'd very polite. Did Andrea ever take a look?

Communication's a funny thing
The flesh and blood thing that is me can be met at 249 etc.
The sound of me is at our telphone.
I can be written to now at an e-mail address.
A peep "inside" me is there on my blog.
And yet ......................... I can barely use a cell phone (mobile, Andrea)! I'm not even really sure how "texting" works. No doubt there are other communication devices coming (or already here!)

Fuck it! I'm on the brink of dinosaurhood!