Reading Source Code by Bill Gates

August and all is well. I'm enjoying summer & currently I'm on a comfy couch in my warm sunroom with many plants 🪴 around me. Between swims, the beach ⛱️, visits to the carehome of my elder, & chores, this room non AC is so restful to enjoy reading my new hardcover book , Source Code.

As well as being a really well written, informative, intense book with humour, I have many memories of the same things Bill Gates refers to in his childhood. I was born in the same year, a few months prior to Bill's birth in the Pacific NW. I'm in BC, he was in Seattle. Our mothers were born in 1929, a few months apart. His mother was July 5th, my birthday is the 12th. His mother passed in 1994, my father passed in 1993 RIP.

Gates family had World 🌎 Book mid 1960s. We did, too. We both went to Sunday school, read similar books, saw similar movies. We both liked hiking around in the outdoors, though Bill did more hiking than I did by far. The story of the Scouts nut sales was funny. 😆 

We both went through the turbulence of the 1960s & 70s rebellious teenager hippie era. It's all so familiar reading his descriptions. 

All the history of computers described is fascinating in the book. Only big difference in our past, astrology is a big part of who I am I believe. As sun sign Cancer ♋️ I witnessed much interest all around me in my teens re astrology. Bill Gates does not mention his Scorpio sun sign. He's very much Scorpio ♏️, holds his cards close to his chest, only lets you know what he wants you to know, but that said, I think he did an excellent heartfelt job of opening up as much as a Scorpio can, and more. Some parts of the book I've cried 😢 and I'm halfway through! 

It's a lovely, great book about computers starting out, about youth in the era, about a lot of things. He doesn't ever brag, gives tons of credit to others, yet he vastly changed the world and continues to do so through philanthropy. So far, I'll give Source Code an A1, or if Bill Gates prefers, an A3, if it was effortless. He explains these scores in the book! Thanks, blessings from God. This book is helping me through a difficult time with a loved one who has dementia. Bill's father had dementia. It's not easy to watch when you have to go through it, but there are good parts to their memory loss. The good memories tend to stay with them.

Thanks! I'll update later! 🌞 ☀️ Carry on! Love conquers all. 💕 

Try to understand

Almost June. I'm enjoying the season & for sports, hockey 🏒 playoffs I like. It is healthy sports & brings back good memories of fam, too.

I'm trying to understand more about mythology & constellations as astronomy & astrology were one in ancient times, for a big reason, the basis of our existence with God, whoever 🙏 the Creator is.

Starting with the constellation Sagittarius ♐️,  I went back through links online to the Sumerians. I'm trying to make some peace in my soul in understanding that astrological sign, as I can't seem to ever agree with sun sign native Sag's train of thought, important for my own life. Speaking of my Sag sister also, who I love. But trust? After the MAID on her father-in-law. I can't get past it, 3 years. She shouldn't have done it with my bro-in-law. My mother is happy in a very modern lovely long term carehome. Why was this guy's father denied life or made to feel so worthless? Because of his money?

Yes, I see the freedom loving expansive nature of Sag, love of travel, lack of responsibility. I know the good qualities but also the horse part tramples on people, not just once, but often, in pursuit of their own dreams. The secret of Sagittarius, who aims his arrow 🏹 at Antares, the main star in Scorpio ♏️,  is not to stab Scorpio in the heart, but to gain from higher knowledge, which is the lesson of transition from rulers of 8th house to 9th house of Sag. Few Sagittarians attain this goal imo yet we're expected to be joyful they are exploring. 

Anyway, I'm busy, so I thought I'd pass on that bit of info.  You never know what may be. 

Love ❤️ L

May Days

I've not posted in awhile so during hockey intermission on tv I felt like catching up here. I'm watching the Panthers Leafs game 1 of 2nd round. Too bad the Van Canucks aren't in the playoffs. I hope to see them win the Stanley Cup 🏆 during my lifetime. If it ain't broke don't fix it, mgrs. Last year was close to a final round!

Everything is good & I've been busy. My mother is in a wonderful brand new longterm care home & I'm very grateful 🙏.  I'm her only caregiver and her increasing dementia is traumatic for me in some ways, although it's a somewhat easier time when she doesn't remember her drug addiction of past. The last few months of her living with me were tiring but I love her & no one else will help, long story. Plus there's the MAID  bro-in-law did to his wealthy father 3 years ago so I can't trust this bro-in-law & my sister does what he wants. It's all weird family dynamics here & Mom doesn't have a clue anymore. 

Sorry I've let my creativity slide 🛝 in some ways, but I'm still really interested in many things. Nature, astrology, some politics. I had high hopes for Trump helping end the war in Ukraine but now I have my doubts. I don't think Putin trusts him, and having watched an elder decline with dementia I think Trump is heading that way...too much rambling speech now. 

I don't know. I adore Elon Musk, but I worry he believes perhaps too strongly in the current medical science direction, and the current evolution of humans. Sorry, Lonnie. I like Ancient Aliens show & believe 90% of our DNA is definitely not junk! It's not been decoded. I believe we are making steps, but all is one & we must not abuse nature but learn from the perfection or we destroy ourselves and the future of our children is at risk. Nature 🌳 is no waste. The Lord or aliens have the answers. 

The ancient stylized frescos & carvings were very advanced like a decoder, like a device could be held up to decode, or our minds could decode in front of the art. Maybe that's why a picture tells a thousand stories. Maybe art is a depiction of what we should see. 

Astrology for the future? We are nearing a revolution. For Canada 🇨🇦 Mark Carney is a sun sign Pisces ♓️.  Not many politicians are Pisces. They are the last, wise old person sign of the zodiac & they see the futility of struggle. Pisces wants everyone to get along. Aries ♈️ is the baby 👶 1st sign ruling the head, and Pisces is the last, ruling the feet. Interesting because historically we need our feet, our own power to move ahead, into the next cycle. It's not our butts that move us ahead, it's our feet! So Pisces knows how to use earth 🌎 energy. The 12th house. 

Bye. The game is on! Chat soon! ❤️ 😍 💖 Love you.