It's a beautiful morning

I was going to comment on what a relief it is to have weathered another election but it isn't quite over yet if my spam folder is to be believed.  I'm amazed at all the spam email I've received from MAGA candidates running in different states like Arizona, Colorado, New York, Florida, and Georgia, more than 100 since October 20th when I decided to try and track this stuff.  And since there is now a runoff in Georgia I've received more than 20 emails on behalf of Herschel Walker since November 9th.  And if Donald J. Trump can be believed, for a modest donation I can enter a lottery for a visit to Mar-a-Lago!  Despite all the names attached to the emails they all originate from one organization, patriotsforvictory, that I've never heard of.  I have no idea why I am so popular with those guys but if they want to waste their resources trying to squeeze a few bucks out of me, they can go right ahead.  But I'm glad that the spam filters for my email are working, and working well.

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A while back Uncle Ken mentioned that Chicago uses some landfills, a fact I was unaware of; I thought they burned the stuff.  The 47th Ward, my long time home, has a weekly newsletter that had a recent pitch for the disposal of Halloween pumpkins.  They mention that in Cook County 37% of landfill material is food waste and that Chicago produces 500,000 tons of organic waste a year.  Shouldn't that stuff be composted into something useful or used as animal feed?  Way back in the day while doing KP at the soon to be renamed Ft. Polk there were two trash cans, one for inedible garbage and one for edible garbage.  The edible garbage can was a foul, festering mass but its contents were sold to the local pig farmers, no doubt at a handsome profit.  We should do the same thing here; half a million tons of organic waste should be worth a lot to somebody, shouldn't it?

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And now for something completely different, here's a time lapse of this morning's sunrise from astronomical twilight to full daylight.  Turned out well, I think, considering it was shot through a dirty double-paned window.  I've never seen clouds move like that before, going in different directions at different altitudes.  This is one of my best wastes of time yet.