FROM THE DESK OF METICULARIUS


This year we Americans spent billions of dollars enriching China for fireworks to celebrate our freedom from tyranny of the king, for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.


It seems typically modernly American to hire foreign slaves who live under the conditions against which so many Americans fought and died.


In my community a church finances its youth program through sales of fireworks made by people denied Christianity and silenced by government violence.

This is a plant table I made from an old hollow core door, a few pieces of fence cedar, and some lumber. The fountain came from a garage sale. The plants seem to like the grow lights. I had to trim back the pothos marble queen (philodendron) because the vines were 18'-20' long. Now I just keep wrapping them around the table. The trickling fountain doesn't do much for the room's lack of humidity, but the plants like it. My wife and I like to keep Christmas lights on it all year round because it is cheerful.

I've been  wondering what I can share that would make sense or be appreciated by any possible reader of this obscure blog.
 
As always, there's alot going on around the world.

After watching the development of the blog on Google I may be ready to write. The new system is confusing to me, but I am working through it.

Meticularia

A couple of years ago I took the word "meticulous" and created "Meticularius", "meticularia", "meticularian", and "meticularianism". I asked: "What is a 'meticule'." I answered: "The smallest meaningful unit in any system; therefore, its value resides in the individual system to which it relates at the time of use. This allows for variations among users.  I have been described as a "meticulous workman."  My customers often define the value "well done," and what is acceptable for one customer is not for another. This allows my own fine gradation of excellence as well as someone elses.  One person may not be able to perceive tenths of a millimeter yet be able to perceive one millimeter. For that person millimeter is the finest gradation possible and my tenths of a millimeter will be determined by that person as excessive, compulsive, over doing it, etc.  Each activity we engage in has upper and lower limits of acceptability depending on the individual participant.