Dave's Journal / Sep2026
Sep.01.2026 (Virgo) >>
Early today, there may be obstacles or a small setback or delay to manage, dear Virgo, but these things can make you try harder, helping you out in the long run. Worries about a relationship or demands from others can be distracting, and concerns may need addressing, but don't let them drain your energy.
A nice, sad little film about lost souls - specifically 2 lost souls (smalltown Ohio) who are struggling to find out what it is they are looking for, as they travel to a Stevie Nicks festival in NYC.
The acting and directing - actually the whole film - are excellent, "small movie" style. I clicked in thinking Stevie Nicks would pop in at some point (she did not) and got pulled into the story and stayed. IMDB gives it 6.7/10 which is impressive.
If you look in on it, keep an open mind.
Not the experience I remembered (been lots of years). Zillions upon zillions of pre-school kids and parents..... two retired engineers (Bill and I) just did not belong there. Apparently the museum has opted to appeal to young familes (probably a very wise financial decision). Indeed, that plan looks to be working fine.
Given that, the new layout and exhibits are very nice, all hands-on and overloaded with kid-oriented visuals, buttons, switches, and sounds.
We did not stay very long.
The Charles River looked artistic in the rain and overcast clouds.
I bring this up more and more in conversations recently ... and here I am typing it into my journal.
The truth is .....
"All your treasures ... pictures of family & friends now grown up or grown old or "passed on", old cards and letters you kept , coffee mugs from special places, vintage books (Millikan's 'Aerodynamics of the Airplane', Roark's 'Formulas for Stress and Strain, 3rd ed') and magazines (1963 Playboys, 1959 Mad Magazines, 1957 Tales from the Crypt), a shoebox of 1956 Brooklyn Dodgers baseball cards, DVDs of movies and CDs of music that accompanied you through life ... all these precious treasures get downgraded to "what is all this junk?" when you leave this life."
I recently woke up to this truth and I am coming to grips with it.
I drove past the Wachusett Dam & Reservoir yesterday, turned around and stopped to "chill" for a while. Made a few pictures.
Upstream
Downstream
"The Wachusett Dam in Clinton, Massachusetts, impounds the Nashua River, creating the Wachusett Reservoir. Construction started in 1897 and was completed in 1905. It is part of the Nashua River Watershed.
This dam is part of greater Boston's water system, maintained and controlled by the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA). It discharges into the Nashua River. When it was completed in 1905, the Wachusett Reservoir was the largest public water supply reservoir in the world. At that time, the Wachusett Reservoir Dam was the largest gravity dam in the world as well."
(The video clip didn't turn out.)
(Watched it again last night.)
Story of a "weird genius" who did not fit well in society and who struggled for several decades with mental illness. Then he won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his discoveries in mathematics.
John Forbes Nash Jr (June 13, 1928 - May 23, 2015), . . . was an American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to game theory, real algebraic geometry, differential geometry, and partial differential equations.
In 1959, Nash began showing signs of mental illness and spent several years at psychiatric hospitals being treated for schizophrenia. After 1970, his condition slowly improved, allowing him to return to academic work by the mid-1980s.
Nash and fellow game theorists John Harsanyi and Reinhard Selten were awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics. In 2015, he and Louis Nirenberg were awarded the Abel Prize for their contributions to the field of partial differential equations.