Day 2921 Clutterbuck.

14th August 2025

There are still things about the US that I don’t understand, and after six years, I still don’t.

For example, why are coffee tables littered with books, piles of them? They take up so much room, there’s no room for a cup of coffee.

Also, and this is a pet peeve of mine, why is empty cans and plastic bags thrown in the sink?

Why? They have to be fished out, all wet and yucky, and thrown in the rubbish bin.

Another one, but this is a question that nobody can answer, why are satellite dishes angled at forty five degrees, and not straight up where the satellites should be?

These are the things that I think about whilst I’m doing boring things like scraping and sanding.

I did some sanding on the chair that John the wood gave me to finish, it was nice to work on a decent timber piece.

Kelli started working on a dresser she picked up a few days ago, it was supposed to be a quick flip, but the paint job wasn’t up to much, so she decided to repaint it.

As she is in her blue period, well we have a large pot of blue, that was her choice.

The bed frame finally was collected today.

A couple drove up from South Haven, they saw the stickers on the truck about banning property tax, and could wait to share the same sentiment.

Mmm, looks like we could have new friends.

Whilst they were with us they saw the dresser that Kelli was working on, and bought it there and then.

Artificial Intelligence is gaining momentum, adverts on the media spouting the benefits of how it can improve businesses.

All that it does is make talent redundant, it soaks up information and replicates everything.

Journalists and writers will not be needed, musicians and songwriters will go to. Art and artists will be irrelevant, and people don’t care.

I have no need for it, I enjoy writing my blog for my one reader, spelling mistakes and all.

AI makes us lazy, Kelli has noticed that sellers on Marketplace are using it to describe the thing they are selling. Soon we won’t be able to believe what we see, and we are letting it happen.