Three Score and Ten [Now Thirteen

Three Score and Ten + Day 81

We sure had a nice November day for painting. I can now see light at the end of the Paint Brush. The weather looks good through Monday. That will be the end of the painting season. The roto tiller got put away for the season. I went and got a oil change on our Town and Country van, preparing to travel to Kentucky and visit my wives twin sister. We will be leaving the seventeenth and will be gone three nights. The little dog Biscuit goes with us but Luna the cat has to stay.

PROMPT November 5th

"Imagine the year is 2030. Write about what has happened in your life over the last decade in the past tense".

It is November 2030 and I have been asked to write about the past ten years. I am now 80 years old which is much different then I was a 70 years. The past ten years has been filled with turmoil, political and culture wise. My life style here in Wisconsin has been stable, but my every day routine is getting more challenging. I am still, mobile but slowing down, My knees are getting worse. A few years ago I got my cataracts taken care of. I was then able to see clearly. The wife and I are having more trouble hearing one another and it is agitating. But we are thankful we are here on this side of the sod, together.

As we exist here in 2030 I am lost. I no longer understand the so called progress of todays technology. It is my fault they would says as I have not tried to keep up. Which is true. but how do you keep up with artificial Intelligence. The artificial Intelligence of today is out maneuvering the ability of the human mind to comprehend it. So sad from Black and white television to this, where a machine builds it own intelligence. This machine over mind will not end well.

Then to add to the problems of todays world our country, our society has broken down into segments. Since before 2020 we no longer have a united, United States culture. we know have a number of cultures, all competing for attention and the few dollars there are. The virus of 2020 and it economic consequences of borrowing trillions of dollars in a attempt soften the blow has had lasting effects. There is today economic hardship through out the world and our creditors want their money. How do you pay back that a kind of dollars. There is no money. Interest rates have risen to plus 25% for good credit, and bad credit is out of the picture completely. The economy of 2030 is at a stand still. The Social Security fund and Medicare is near default. Our human ability to juggle all of societies complexities and solve the problems is coming to an end in 2030.

The major cities are a war zone, violence, destruction, hunger, homelessness and lack of health care. Nobody wants to be there. The population losses, for good reason are causing the cities to collapse in on them selves like a black hole. I had thought we yet had a chance to get on top of our problems in 2016, and at first we did make some progress. but it was like a mirage, it did not last. With the election of Kim Sweet in 2028 are troubles have accelerated real fast. When you have more people taking then there is giving, the Republic as we know it can not survive. In 2030 is it time for the soon return of Christ? He will pick his time, How bad will it get?