“In the year 2525,
If man is still alive,
If woman can survive,
They may find-
In the year 3535
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth,
Tell no lies.
Everything you think, do, and say
Is in the pill you took today. . .”
Lyrics from “2525” by Zagar and Evans, 1969. You can listen to it here
Sunday.
The house is super quiet today. No traffic down at the road this afternoon. I can’t see traffic from here, but sometimes you can hear a passing vehicle or log truck. All morning the weather has been cool, cloudy, and wet with an off-again, on-again drizzle drowning any ambition I may have had for gardening. I’m sitting at the table working on a Brain Games puzzle when the phone suddenly screams, jolting me out of my cryptogram meditation.
“Geez, I just about jumped out of my chair!” I took a moment to compose myself and looked at the screen to see who scared the fuzz off my socks before I tapped the answer button.
“Hi Mom, what’s happening?”
“Hi there sweetheart. How are you?”
“How’s everyone?”
After a few minutes of checking in on everyones health status dear son and I set off on our Sunday afternoon 2 hour conversation where we solve or at least have an answer to all the worlds’ problems.
Dear son moved to another blue state a dozen years ago when he was offered a great job, complete with meeting new people, awesome adventure, and great pay. The company chose well, he was the perfect man for the job. We catch up by phone whenever we can.
Somewhere around the hour mark into our conversation, we began talking about happenings in the other blue state. A peaceful protest in Newsoms land of fruits and nuts. This "mostly" peaceful protest has been in planning for many years. We agree that all the chess pieces are on the board, the game is now in progress. The Spanish crown wants its land back and it looks as though they are going to take it, come hell or high water.*
“Do you remember the GridEx and Jade Helm grid exercises a few years back?” I ask.
NERC GridEx 1 report On November 16-17, 2011, NERC conducted the first sector-specific, large-scale grid security exercise, GridEx 2011. The event culminated after eight months of intensive planning and recruiting efforts.
Red Dawn or Martial Law Eww wee, check the links in this article.
He didn’t remember, as most busy young people don’t. So, I sent him the above links to catch him up.
The question is: are these still on the books, and have the Russians gone home?
Our conversations most often take a left turn and go down a conspiracy rabbit hole. But we are both realists and the things we talk about podcasters have already discussed, are provable and recorded in the way-back machine on the internet. Computers do have their place I have to admit, they can be an instant library.
“Hey,” I said, changing the subject. “I just don’t understand all the jet traffic over the U.P. lately.” I said with a bit of a questioning tone.” I can’t remember when this area had so many planes, jets, and helicopters in the sky. Oh, by the way, do you remember I told you about our night vision monocular? Occasionally, I'll get up in the middle of the night and watch the skies. Living out here in the woods we don’t have any light pollution to deal with. It’s amazing how many low satellites I see moving around up there with night vision. Some going to the north, some going east/west. Sometimes some things aren’t satellites. There have been more things moving around lately. Trust me, those are not planes or satellites. What I have been seeing…”
Instantly, my phone went dark the line was still open. He couldn’t hear me and it wouldn’t let me hang up. It just idled there on the table with a disturbingly dark open line. I had the speakerphone on while we chatted so I could move about the kitchen.
My son was able to disconnect from his end. He called our house phone to see what happened. He tried my cell phone again but was unable to get through. The only way to disengage the blank open line was to shut my phone off, which I did.
A text was waiting for me when I turned it back on.
Ok, Mom. Good talking to you. We’ll talk again later. Love you.
Now that blank phone business was really weird! I have heard of YouTube podcasters having that trouble, but me? Just too weird. Things, UFOs, life on this planet, are going to get stranger and stranger from now on.
* Allodial title— Why the Spanish crown owns Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Oregon, Nevada, and Colorado. See here
Bonus from the Wayback machine;
Guess who is coming to dinner? An 8-minute video by James Tracy.