he was on the AI bandwagon again

                                     took everything in himeverytime not to throw a brick at himknock him off it

but to be fair he was frankhonest regarding his perception assessment 

it fortified his ardent belief systemhis working premise

                                                           he didnt want to work that hard 

anif one hasnt had to work hard  AIs God

It’ll make everything easier and easier for people. We just need to follow the solutions it gives us

NO  Directions directives  Not easiercertainly not easier for the people who will lose their jobswill be displaced by AI

Thasaid you know Im a luddite I can an do appreciate it as a toolappreciate its functionhow it can assist me when I research on-line  But thas the extent of it

As  You  Know

Ive minimised my dependency on electricity antha said When electricity collapses  Where does AI go  Where do we go since our younger generationsour infrastructure have been weaned at its tit  Easier and easier means dumber and dumber and dumber and dumber

I don think thas an good course 

                                  Things ought to remain difficult ought to test our mettle

Howbout advancement for disabled people? 

                                              Are you against that?

No Though are you for disabling all people

                                              No Ifya woud we got in under the wire we enjoyed childhoods we would not trade for the world  How woud you like to be born right now

                                                                Exciting times he almost Freudianslipped  exiting  Im being facetious Its underappreciated High on the unappreciated list  there with irony sarcasm an absurdity

Not for me  You

 

   You

he didnt think so would punch a hole in his AI

1415,  Reggaefriday,  22  9. 23

1301,  2sday,  26  9. 23

he wandered into her backyarddescending porch steps towards a picnic table on a separate patio that he helped her move because she asked

                            he had her ask again nicely and then again more nicer because he did not want to move itbecause  he was being a prick

she wanted it angled

it fucked with his chi

he said so

Well I live here you don’t.

Yawanna to contend with bad chi interrupted flow   breathe

I think I’ll like how it looks. she evaded his question asif that erased it he was used to that Which is why I’m asking your help.

        If I don’t like it we can move it back.

No were not he thought

                         Well  Youll have to live with it not me

What are you saying?

Youre quick

                Wha am I saying

I think . .

. . You know

   I think you’re saying you won’t be visiting me often.

Cela va sans dire 

It goes without saying.

   Yes Correct

walkingup on the table drink in hand he was pleased he didnt make a polite pour of her 15 year old Redbreast  the crystal tumbler held at least four fortifying ounces  he felt its sensuous innate heatpromise through the glass

she walked up behind himplaced her hand on his back

Still fucks with my chi

I like it.

he took a sip

she sipped Scotch

Something else

Really?

           Really something else?

Yah your new birdfeeder it hung just off to their right You texted me a picture when you hung it

I recall.

In the pic it looked larger than it is  I suppose now thawas for lack of scale

I’d agree, yes, I recall not wanting toshall I say . . risk . including the picnic table in it.

Despite me being able to recognise where you hung it.

I don’t think . . despite.

                           So what else?how’s your Irish? 

Ample thank you  Yare generous

I didn’t pour it. 

No

     But you had it in your cabinet

she nodded graciously

it had been uncracked

Thank you very much

You’re welcome.

   Not so fast doll

                       I may not be

How’s that?

The birdfeeder

she gazed at it  You like it?

I do

Then what?

Ill return to scale so not to leave you in a lurc . .

. . Which you do incessantly.

Gotta keepup

Oh . . not that you’re unlike stoodup aligned dominoes falling over each other.

Aw thank you thawas very nice

And accurate.

An accurate When I go I go

You do.

         So please, what of scale?

   Yes

           Now I understand dick pics

Really?

he laughed

              Really

and took a pleasedpull of the Redbreast

1400,  Reggaefriday,  22  9. 23

1112,  2sday,  26  9. 23

GAZE

he walked into Black Briar to celebrate Halloweenhave a couple of drinks enjoy the crowd costumes  head home

he went to the rear where there was a rustic outdoor patio usually there were tables to be had it was away from the long affable bar awayremoved from what promised to be intriguingif not titillating entrancesNOPE

                                                                                                        not a table Briars was doing a bangup business he spied an empty stool at a crowded table across from a woman he had seen there on occasion she was sitting beside her girlfriend they were dressedhed guess as Bonnie and Clyde she was bonnie and builtwhich wasnt to detract from her girlfriends  bonnie in her own right

he asked them if the seat was occupied

                                          If it was I’d say it wasn’t. she winked  It’s not.

May I

May you what?

Be seated enjoy your company he winkedshe laughed

                                                          he said to Clyde Tough on your suspenders

You’re telling me.

                   Gives me somewhat a slight appreciation, distaste to be honest, of women who bind themselves.

Is that a thing

Not so frequent, though we have friends who have acquaintances who do.

                                                                              perhaps to emphasise she tugged at the suspenderstugged them apartplacing them to either sideher cleavage plumpedDAMN. she yanked them to bisect her breasts again but one slipped in betweenDAMMIT. she elbowed Bonnie Between these suspenders, the sleeve garters, this outfit’s driving me nuts.

You lost the toss, Bonnie and Clyde was your idea.

Yeah, well wait till next year, no he no she, just shes.

Just shes are fine with me.

Clyde sneered her moustache angled

May I buy you outlaws a drink

Please. said Clyde

   Bonnie was slower on the uptake smiledcuriously  lasciviously    Are you entertaining intentions?

he laughed

             Unintended  If this seat were taken we woudnt have this conversation  Works been a bitch I didnt realise it was Halloween until Id already left home was too far gone  Hence . .

. . You look like a teacher, a professor.

I get that a lot

               he pulledloosened his tie unbuttoned top two buttons Tha better

smiling her sneer gone Clyde asked  Are you an undercover Gman? she winked

                                                                                      You’ll never take us alive. 

Maybe we coud discuss the terms of your surrender over a drink   Another Whayare havin

they chorused Please.

If you woudplease  Ive got my back to the bar  Womenit is my experience are acknowledgedserved quicker than men  Coud you hail a barmaid

                            As Ive seen lusty wenches all 

It’ll be a good tip night.

Bonnie heldup her hand Sammy’s serving us, she’s a friend.

Sam I know . .

. . She’s the lustiest wench here.

Ohyah  No doubt

You a regular? Clyde asked  I haven’t seen you before.

Call me a patron On occasion

I’ve seen you before. said Bonnie

Ive seen you You he said to Clyde I havent

No, unlikely, I work out of town. Cherise and I practise a long-distance relationship. We’re not staid, not monogamous, though we’re an item, right doll? she kissed her warmly

Yes, an item to be sure.

Im Joe

Cherise. This is Maddie.

he reached across the table shook their hands Maddies suspenders slipped between her breasts

                                                                                                      Goddammit.

Its becoming . .

. . It’s become a pain in the ass. But thank you.

Yare welcome

               Ive not met either a Cherise or a Maddy before                                

Your lucky day, Gman. said Bonnie erCherise And any women named such after meeting us won’t hold a candle to us I guarantee.

             she leaned forward now her breasts became the objects of attention 

he didnt glimpse

                   Arya crazy Take a gander

Hushit

I am  You crazy

Yare goin off hafcocked   Strategy

AwHell  Suppose yare the boss

I am

       Sammy see you

She did. She’s working her way over.

Cherise leaned forward a bit morerevealed more

Shes . . .

You look

I am shes killing me

                       Feasting my eyes

Feasting I like it

   NO Youd love it

Cherise. 

he turned on his hip towards Sammy

Joe.

Hey Sammy I understand youll likely have Bonnie and Clydes order Them again please  Ill have a celebratory Rusty Nail

What are you supposed to be?  she asked 

Either an overworked teacher or harried Gman

Sammy laughed Awright.  My choice, a teacher.

Yare kind

   I’m not.

               something hung in her silence   Wish I had a teacher like you.

Loaded. sang Maddy

Sammy smiledblushed  

                          I’ll be back. Three traditional ice cubes, Joe?

Please Sammy

Aim to please Joe.

                      she turned and left                       

She got a little thing for you, Joe? asked Maddy

Shes engaged

She’s been engaged better than twoalmost three years. said Cherise  Shit or get off the pot.

Careful Might sound like you got a hard-on for men

Shiftless men damnright, but for that matter shiftless women too. Lack direction, lack rudder propulsion.  Yeah.

They oughta take wha they want

We all ought to take what we want.

                                      she indicated with her thumb over her shoulder at Maddy  This one. At a mutual friend’s party not a half an hour after we were introduced she had me in the pantry.   Jesus.

She seduced me.

I didn’t. 

          We needed more china place setting, you’re taller than me, you could reach them without the stepladder.

   I heard a story that you removed the stepladder. 

Don’t be crass.

I . . believe . . . you grabbed my ass when I went up on my tiptoes.

Maddy laughed I was stabilising you.

Cherise rolled her eyes Then she stabilised my breasts.

                                                            Was a hot time on the old town tonight.  China wasn’t needed.

Nope.

Theyre hot  Think we can wrangle something to get between them

Woudya shaddup

I still cant believe you havent taken a gander at Bonniessorry Cherises tits

Whacha thinking, Joe? asked Maddy

he eyed her eyed Cherise

                             Quite the pair

Would you be more specific?

Yes. said Cherise  More specific.

                                     There are three pairs are across from you.

Theres a chance man

SHUT UP

Theyre loading the chamber

And you’ve yet to give us a glance.

I don glance

   You don’t glance?  asked Maddy

Yawant cursory estimations

Oh. 

I’ll second that.

Thank you grrls

Here we go. Sammy 

                      Did you want to start a tab, Joe?

No Sammy  Well settle

   Really?  Quick work?

Stop

What time are you off, Sammy? asked Cherise

I’m early shift. Off at Ten.

Maddy asked Would you like to party?

With you three?

If it’s cool with your fiancé.

I don’t have to ask permission from my fiancé.

Then you’re free? asked Cherise

Oh shit

Shaddup

The three of you?

Just the three of us. And you.

That would be fun.

It woud be a riot 

Jesus man

Wha Not a riot These women  Yakiddin me

                                                Evenif nothing comes of it or one or two or three  Nice way to spend Halloween  In their company

Ten then. Seeya then if not sooner for another drink.

Then Ten. Maddy and Cherise chorused

                                            he wondered if they did that a lot

Shit

Now you. Cherise

Me

You.  Maddie

Wha  

together You don’t glance?

they did do it a lot

                   I don

Crazy. said Cherise

Not reallyI prefer to admire

                                So I gaze

GAZE? together

Yah

Could get you slapped.

Either of you thinking of slapping me

they took up their drinks and sipped together

Yare thinking

Actually said Maddy  I’m thinking why three ice cubes? Three ice cubes in your . . . what?

Rusty Nail Drambuie Scotch

                              Why woud I dilute either Only slightly  If I had my druthers Id have it shaken but I cant say ever where my druthers are at the time nor am I James Bond

Ah. not together

Gaze

they looked at each other

My nipples are getting hard. said Cherise 

Mine too.

Gazing is . . exceptionally intimate.

Yes 

     Admiration too 

                      Have either of you attended an art museum and glanced  glanced at the paintings  Oils  Watercolours   Sculptures

                             Id say no

Glancing is horseshit                          

   Is if I may demeaning

Wed relish you 

Look at you

              

To gaze is to relish

Hey thas my line

Yare me  Mine

Theres tha

There is

he held his glass up in toast

                               To treat or treat

they smiled warmly consciously

                                    Treat or treat. together

they sipped their drinks

he went between their eyes to bring them into the moment

                                                             then

one at a time 

he gazed

Cherise

         he gazed at her nose a good nose west Indian broad a beautymark on her left cheek full lips she parted themher tongue eversobriefly darted leaving a sheen of saliva where it touched a good chin jawline her throatanother beautymark long neck elegant curved collarbones strong shoulders freckles on her chest constellations

he reached towards her  with his wristhis hand bent back he gently pushed against her right breast  she sighed

he gazed

          he pushed bit harder the cloth collapsed top of her aureole  eclipse   crescent

he sighed

gazed

   withdrawing his hand he slowly lifted his eyes to hers

gazed

looked like she was coming undone

her nipples harder

   he turned his attention to Maddy

Cherise uttered God. That was hot.

                                      she took a deep sip of her drink                

he took Maddy parcel by parcel

she was more feminine than Cherise finer features marbled redhair wave mosslichenspeckled greeneyes more freckles

         she seemingly absent remotecontrol  pulled her suspenders to either side of her breasts released them let them snap

he ran the back of his index finger against their swell barely grazed a nipple through her shirt

leaning back he returned his gaze to her eyes

she whispered words they sounded like another language

   

   Let the games begin

Patience

2115ish,  2sday,  12  9. 23

1505,  Monday,  25  9. 23

   albeit briefly everything except words and the book are albeit briefly when he walked and read  glimpsing was preferable to seeing  suggestionsubtlety more titillating than that blatantly exposed 

                                                                    albeit briefly  glancingup from the booktaking in the lay of the land he saw an ivorywhite painted fire hydrant flutter and shapechange into a small girl stifflimbed frightened suddenly exposedrevealed  trapped in his eyes

                                                   then albeit briefly she smiledslightly and fluttered like moths out of them

      a fireplug again

undisturbed he returned to reading

1530,  Saturday,  23  9. 23

0947,  Monday,  25  9. 23

Awright   somethings afootdefinitely  queer     was approximately 2:30PM 

                                                  Witching hour  3AM

2:30 Thursday  21Sept

2:30 Saturday  23Sept

closing on the intersection at Rosario

Thursday crickets chirping during daylighthed never heard crickets chirp in the daylight

Saturday walkinreadin he hears a sharp clickclickclick a prance knows its a deer looks up an coming straight at him a sixpoint buck  a twoyear old

                               when he collapsed the book to his chestsaid Hello goodlookin the buck veered righttaking the corner headedup Rosario he watched it as it stopped two oncoming cars a third that came up behind it the clickclickclick suggested mild panic a buck in the neighbourhood isnt helpless hooves horns  can fuck somebody up real badnot him  he was not threatening

   crickets buck

broad daylight

next time he headed in that direction hed time it out see if possibly three times would be a charm

                                                                                                      seek the unknowable till he knew

reminding him of the ongoing A I argument he has with his brother-in-law trying to point out that computers lack the ability to speculate the ability to recognise the probability possibilities  alternate answers

                                                                                                How so?

You say computers can give us the answeroutcome for a delineated problem which rational people ought to comply with since they engagedemployed the tool A I 

Yes. 

No 

     First because no matter the solution it has to be implemented by human beings who cant agree between themselves let alone with a prejudicedthere was a programmer  a prejudiced biased tool

I disagree.

   I know you do

                   Secondly to use yours Rumsfelds unknown unknowns which I agree we cannot know however we can speculatefor instance cause and effect I suggest there are breaks in the chain an while computers can use everything known it cannot factor in what it doesnt cannot speculate hence a break   for instance language  its believed a language Ill call A has gone extinct it merely went underground  it resurfaces years later to some prominence  the computer will not recognise A but rather the recent knowable Aprime  thereby not factoring in A the underground A  absence of evidence is not evidence of absenceyou know tha  Wha Im sayin is there are contingencies speculations parallelifya woud  worldsNo I can see your expression  then fine  there exist parallel options numerous Aprimes that are not evaluated

I don’t think so.

But ya don know

                   A I is a tool not the be-all end-all

   hence why hed time himself to arrive at the Rosario intersection for approximately 2:30  to learn one way or the other

it was queer

does queer timedhappen  in the daylight

1224,  Sunday,  24  9. 23

Elton John  Tiny Dancer  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g4MSYK5d3A  Rumsfeld Unknowns  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REWeBzGuzCc

AwJesus  he didnt mean it

                                Im sorry sorry  Sorry I didnt mean it   he looked hurt  Yacant be hurt You don understand English you don understand English anymore than youd understand Dutch German Spanish  French

still 

      he looked hurt

Im sorry

never ever neverever tell a pet a cat a dog hed never tell a dog because he wouldnt have one dog was a dealbreaker

Yare so fuckin severe   Anya can shaddup its my confession   Confession   Yah shaddup  

                                                                                                   a dog is a dealbreaker

mans best friend   nah  

never ever tell a pet youre cuddling whos sitting in your lap I have to put you down he was going to prepare his dinner  it fucks with their chi 

feng shui

1356,  Saturday,  23  9. 23

1050, Sunday,  24  9. 23

he liked to think he was up on thingsalthough to be awfully fair  consistently he asked his daughter if something was a thing only to have her tell him it was

“Dad.” she exercised patience  he taught her that  “As I’ve told you, if you think something’s a thing, it probably is.”  

   sobering

his girlfriend away on a trip wished him a happy Saturday  she was responding to his Happy Saturday sweetheart text

though she upped the ante  Happy Mabon!

Not a fuckin clue

  :  :  How are you? she asked

  :  :  I’d be better if I knew wha Mabon is

she wrote it was a pagan celebration he was all for pagan wicca wiccan  autumnal equinox  :  :  We use this time to reflect on the temporariness of all things . . to accept transitions that life brings.

temporary  his temporary ached 

                                   it ached from more transitions he ever thought possible tossed in a heap at his feet they were fuckin tough to accept  unexpected  they made him want to punch someoneanyone in the mouth  it was easy to say in regards to temporary that he was a little offkilter  unbalanced   volatile an understatement

  :  :  How wiccan are you?

                             she wouldnt know because he didnt tell her that reading it he pronounced wiccan wicked

1615,  Saturday,  23  9. 23

1018 ofcourse,  Sunday,  24  9. 23

https://www.almanac.com/content/first-day-fall-autumnal-equinox

https://www.bpl.org/blogs/post/the-origins-and-practices-of-mabon/

https://www.patheos.com/answers/what-are-the-sabbats

https://www.brandeis.edu/now/2021/september/wicca-berger-conversation.html