And now I’m up and about just after 8:00am and the house is very, very quiet. Didn’t drink anything yesterday other than water, Gatorade, and a Coke. Decided against getting blotto for the big year end finale. Thought it would serve me better to be bright eyed and bushy tailed for the morning. Sorted laundry and cleaned up a bit around here. My jacket stinks to high heaven of smoke & ash. That should be fun to wear for the next few days as we wind down the Christmas break. In true fashion I had an upset stomach while the family did fireworks, so that’s the same as always.
Welcome to 2024. Today is Monday. This is the last week of winter break, so time to make the best of whatever you have going on at the moment. We ended the year by clearing out junk that had been sat going mouldy and rotten. Having an enormous fire that I’m certain you could have tanned beside, as it put out so much light & heat. Flames don’t put out UV light though, as far as I know. I’d have to look that up. I know welding arcs are so bright and hot they can tan/burn skin from exposure. I’m getting off track. We cleaned up, and did some much needed juggling of resources/space to make our lives better. It’s worth the time and effort is all I’m saying. I’m sore in the shoulders and back. My coat smells like smoke, and I burned a hole in the sleeve of my jacket. But it’s all worth the hassle. I cleaned the burn pit, and the shop, and the laneway of debris and leaves. I feel better about it all.
Do I have any words of wisdom for 2024? No, not really. Try not to be too hard on yourself, but do take responsibility for your words/actions. Plan ahead even just the tiniest bit and you might save yourself some trouble. It’s not masculine to forget your wife on holidays and birthdays. That’s just a dick move, don’t do that shit. If they forget about yours then perhaps it’s time to move on – yeah? Common sense stuff like that should get brought up every four to six months so that we can all realign and get right with ourselves. It’s easy to drift off the line and get out into the weeds a bit. Shake it loose and adjust yourselves accordingly.
But I’m not a prophet or guru, I don’t have any answers that you couldn’t find without a quick google search or an encyclopedia. I remember Encarta, the cd rom disc, it used to have audio clips of composers I would listen too because we didn’t have the internet in my youth and actual CD’s were rare and very expensive, and I could hear 20-30 seconds of In The Hall of the Mountain King whenever I wanted thanks to that CD rom disc of Encarta. Memories.
**Answer to my question, a bon fire foes not emit enough UV light as it is primarily in the visible light spectrum. A welding arc however does emit high levels of UV light radiation and will tan you to leather, burns, and/or skin cancer if you don’t wear appropriate PPE when welding.**
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