It Could Have Been Worse

I couldn't use my computer last night because it was doing updates. That usually takes only a few minutes, but this time it warned me that "this will take awhile", and it did. It was still only 23% complete after a half hour, so I gave up and went to bed. I was tired anyway, and I wanted to get up early because it was the last day of deer season. Usually the update machine shuts the computer down when it's done, but this time, by 3:00 AM, it had only gone into hibernation mode. I turned it on to see what was going on, and was given a summary of all the wonderful updates it had given me. I doubt that I will ever use any of that stuff, but we don't get to pick and choose our updates with Windows 10, it gives your everything, whether you want it or not.

Deer season could have been worse. I encountered a mechanical problem with Old Betsy two days before the opener, and I knew that I couldn't get anybody to fix it in time, so I made it work enough to get me through the season. By next season, I will have it fixed or get a new gun. I wasn't able to practice much, so I resolved that I wouldn't take any iffy shots, which is part of the reason I let that little one walk away. I went out a total of six times, which is not a lot for somebody who hunts from his house and doesn't have to work for a living, but it was better than nothing. I didn't see any more deer after the first day except for the one I saw this evening as I was dumping ashes from the wood stove out the big garage door. Technically, I wasn't hunting at the time, but Old Betsy was close at hand and I might have gotten a shot off, but I passed because it was too dark to shoot with confidence.

The book Uncle Ken asked about is "Confronting the Color Line - The Broken Promise of the Civil Rights Movement in Chicago" by Alan B. Anderson and George W. Pickering. I remember thinking, "What are they complaining about? They eventually got everything they wanted." By the end of the book, however, I realized that there was more than one "they" at work here. The followers of MLK  really believed that all races should live side by side in perfect harmony, but the Black Power people just wanted to kick ass and take names. If anybody got what they wanted, it was the Black Power people, probably because MLK was martyred for the cause, although the book didn't mention that.
Maybe it's like that with Uncle Ken's TLA. He makes a distinction between the good liberals and the other lefties who are maybe not so good. The same thing might be said about the conservatives as well. We are not all the same, any more than all Blacks or all Muslims are the same.

One thing that does seem to be all the same are those sex scandals that are all the rage lately. Maybe some of those guys are guilty, but I find it hard to believe that they all are. Like Uncle Ken said, it's starting to look like a witch hunt to me.